It’s Friday! Let’s Fuck Shit Up Together!
Happy Friday, lovely! It’s time to fuck some shit up!
Twice a month, in accordance with the lunar cycles, we gather in circle here and in your inbox for a salaciously good time. We talk sex, self-care, and reclaiming what has always been ours via ritualized practices and hexing shitty politicians. And for my entrepreneurial babes out there, you’re getting a little bonus sales tip, too.
Why? Because I want to combine everything in my varied background into one place to offer my highest and greatest good to you. Take what resonates. Leave the rest.
🔥 SEX
In this segment, I hand you a little tip to keep your sexual health in line or spice up your bedroom. Why? Because I sold sex toys for 12 years and received training from some of the best sexologists in the world. Any products mentioned are available HERE.
Sex can be a really challenging topic for a lot of individuals. Get into a relationship, and that only magnifies the challenges for everyone involved. Whether you have one or multiple partners, those conversations can be fraught and full of anxiety.
One of the biggest benefits I found to the purchase of a sex toy — be it a vibrator, a feather tickler, or a simple blindfold — over the course of my 12-year previous career selling them was that the object can provide an opening for communication.
When you bring an object into the sexual experience, it gives you something specific to talk ABOUT rather than talking about the big, scary topic of sex. “We’re not talking about ME right now. We’re not talking about MY sexuality. We’re not talking about YOU right now. We’re not talking about YOUR sexuality. We’re talking about this thing right here that is neither me nor you and is separate from us both.”
So if you and your partner(s) are struggling to communicate openly about sex, try bringing a new item into the bedroom. Talk about the thing. And see where the conversation goes. 🔥
💖 SELF-CARE
In this segment, I combine my background as a massage therapist with my training as a coach to offer you tips for physical, mental, and emotional well-being. My personal recommendation for physical movement is the Pilates-based mat work offered by Tandy Gutierrez. Not only has Tandy’s work helped me navigate living in an auto-immune body, but over the years, this has helped me more than anything else to heal my nervous system. Check out her Unicorn Wellness Studio HERE.
It’s the end of the year. Pretty soon, everyone and everything is going to be shouting at you to set your goals, get on track, heighten your productivity, and GO GO GO.
I’d like to offer you an alternative. Starting January 2, I’m running a 30-Day Nap Challenge.
That’s right. I’m challenging you to take a fucking nap every day for a month.
This will take place mostly in my Instagram stories. So if you’re not following me on IG, go ahead and do that. It’ll be worth your while. There may be prizes for participating. 💝 www.instagram.com/Keli.Lyn.Jewel/
And I’ve made you a guide to take notice of how you feel throughout the month. So if you’re a free workbook fiend like me, get that here: www.KeliLynJewel.com/rest
More details will land in your inbox next Wednesday, and you’ll hear about it on my podcast next week, as well. But because you’re here, you get a heads-up. 😘 💖
💸 SALES
Again, I sold sex toys for 12 years. In the direct sales industry. I was fucking good at it. I earned a ton of incentives. And I trained hundreds of other women how to do the same thing. Now, I’ve taken my experience from that career, my experience with a brick-and-mortar massage practice with massage membership sales, and from building my coaching practice to develop a sales and business membership community to help other entrepreneurs redefine their relationship to sales, systems, and strategy so they can grow in a sustainable way. In this segment, I’m offering all my entrepreneurial love bugs a sales tip. Skip this part if it doesn’t apply to you. And if it does? Email or DM me, and I’ll send you my free 7-day course to find and hone your authentic sales voice.
In case you missed it this week, I sent out another free resource that you want to take advantage of. It’s a reflection guide.
Why did I send this out?
Because the new year is always an excellent time to reflect on what’s gotten us to the proverbial here so that we can evaluate what’s working and what’s not and decide how we want to get to the proverbial there.
But the problem we face is multifaceted: we don’t know the right questions to ask, we’re not sure what to take into account for moving forward, and we always start our reflections with what sucks (or we do the opposite and refuse to look at what sucks) so we don’t have a clear picture of ANYTHING and can’t create a worthwhile plan for what’s next.
The solution? Go through the Reclaiming Reflection workbook at www.KeliLynJewel.com/reflection. It’ll help you work with your brain to reflect appropriately upon what got you here. And it’ll help you evaluate what it looks like to effectively move forward toward there. 💸
✨ SPELL
Because this newsletter is sent out in conjunction with the lunar cycles, this segment offers you a moon ritual. Prior to all the stuff listed above, I studied art history as a way to develop an understanding of world religions. Since childhood, I’ve been on a spiritual journey to develop my own relationship to the divine. In no way do I have any interest in telling you what to believe or not believe. That’s for you. It’s personal. And for me, it’s cyclical. My spiritual practices have changed my relationship to time in such a beautiful way that I want to offer you a bit of that shift here by recognizing the cycles of the moon in order to hand you an opportunity to incorporate cyclical time into your experience of life. I work with many spiritual mentors, and ritualized practices are incorporated into the foundation of Project Reclamation—my equity-centered membership community—as well as the Reclamation Weekend retreats I host. And when you joined this email list, you received a Reclamation ritual from me. Again, I don’t care what you believe in or don’t believe in. Paying attention to the moon will help repair your relationship with time, which capitalism has fucked up for all of us. If you’d like to dive deeper into esoteric spirituality, I recommend checking out the Magical Mentoring program offered by Tandy, who I mentioned in blue above, for her Pilates work. That info is HERE.
Across time and culture, the moon has often represented our inner world of emotional connection, spiritual journey, and relationship to self. Aligning myself with the cycles of the moon has offered me the added bonus of shifting my relationship with time. When we allow ourselves the space for rest and renewal, rather than keeping ourselves stuck in the constant hustle & grind mentality of late-stage capitalism, our perspectives on what’s influential, what’s valuable, and what’s worthy of our energy have space to become deeper and more personal.
This week, I’m offering you a full moon ritual to hand you a little piece of that.
This doesn’t have to take a long time. The idea is to be present with yourself and focused on your full experience during the ritual. Pay attention to the sensations you feel during the ritual and make note of them afterward. I’d love to hear about your experience if you’d like to share!
FULL MOON RITUAL
The full moon is an excellent time to release anything you’ve been holding onto. And this can mean one of two things! Either you’ve been clinging to something that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip. Or you’ve been working toward creating something that you’re now ready to release into the world. Whichever option resonates most with you, that’s where to focus your energy for this ritual.
Supplies: paper, pen, candle, some sort of non-flammable receptacle (actual cauldron, metal, glass, or ceramic bowl or pot, fire pit outside, the base of a grill — you’re gonna burn some shit up so you want something to let it burn in that’s not going to cause any damage to anything)
Steps:
Take a few minutes and ground yourself, whatever that means to you – whether that’s a few deep breaths, listening to a guided meditation, washing your face, putting your feet in the grass, masturbating, or anything else. Then light your candle.
Write out what it is that you’d like to release. If this is something you’ve been clinging to that isn’t serving you, and you’re releasing your grip on it, fold the paper in half AWAY from your body. If it’s something you’ve been working on and are releasing into the world, fold the paper in half TOWARD your body.
Light the paper on fire and let it burn in your non-flammable receptacle.
BONUS: If you want to mix the burnt ashes with salt and/or offer them back to the earth by sprinkling them around outside or burying them under the moon, go for it!
If you follow astrology, you may know that the upcoming full moon on Tuesday, December 26, is in Cancer. That might make it extra emotional. And you can check where Cancer falls in your natal chart to see what part of your life may be impacted most intensely.
And even if you don’t follow astrology, this full moon is happening just a few days after the winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere, where I live; summer solstice in the southern hemisphere).
Between the solstice and the Gregorian New Year, this full moon is a beautiful opportunity for ritual. (Even without considering the emotional Cancerian energy.) Regardless of whether you’re in business for yourself or not, I encourage you to use the Reclaiming Reflection workbook that I sent out earlier this week (and referenced in the Sales section above) to use in your full moon ritual. Link for easy access: www.KeliLynJewel.com/reflection. ✨
✊ STATECRAFT
Politics is a not-so-secret passion of mine. I used to run a couple of political organizations here in Kansas City and lobby at the state level in Missouri with Planned Parenthood. The 2016 election is what led me into coaching after I lost my mind and a therapist told me I had “excellent coping skills” because I was focusing all my time and energy on political volunteerism. And in this segment, we might get a little petty. But we’ll always be aiming to reclaim our power from the cis-heteronormative, puritanical, white supremacist patriarchy we currently live under in this hellscape of climate change and late-stage capitalism. Here, I’ll offer suggestions on candidates to donate to, people to follow, podcasts to subscribe to, and answer the question of WHO ARE WE HEXING? (Josh Hawley is always on that list.)
Ken Paxton is the recipient of our collective hexing today.
Think you don’t know who he is?
Sure you do. He’s the Texas AG. The fucker who petitioned the TX supreme court to strike down the temporary restraining order in Travis County that would have allowed Kate Cox to get an abortion after a diagnosis sent her to the emergency room on multiple occasions.
She has left Texas to get the medical care she needs, but not everyone has the means for such extreme measures. And no one should be forced into such extremes.
Abortion is medical care. Period. And Ken Paxton has no business serving in the position he holds. Hex the shit out of him!
*This segment is not intended to promote harm to anyone in any way. I don’t hex people in real life. ✊
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That’s it for this week, lovely! I appreciate you offering me space in your day. And I look forward to seeing you fuck some shit up today! ❤️🔥
-xoxo-
Keli
P.S. I want to invite you to Project Reclamation, a private, equitable, self-coaching community, to explore the most expansive version of yourself. Inside, you’ll receive tools for nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and cognitive self-coaching. Plus, you’ll have access to Master Certified Coaches to receive written coaching as well as live coaching via group calls. And you’ll be able to join in on an integrated book club, as well as both virtual and in-person community celebrations.
Maybe life coaching has felt out of reach for you in the past, as it’s often relegated to those hoarding enough wealth to be bored. But self-discovery doesn’t actually come in Tiffany boxes, and it is my goal to make healing and growth accessible to everyone.
Inside this space, we’re committed to reclaiming our bodies, our time, our joy, and our lives from all the cultural conditioning that has left us feeling less than. And we’re doing it in a vibrant, supportive community that is truly open to everyone who shares these values. (Though cis-het white Christian men may struggle a bit.)
Registration is now open, so click the link to join. See you on the inside!
