I am a woman in my midlife prime building a sacred, Esoerotic world on my land in coastal North Carolina. And I feel fully, unapologetically alive in my body and my life.

Not because everything is perfect (I would never claim that) but because I shed that expectation all together. And in doing so, I discovered that what remained was more perfect than anything I'd been chasing.

At 45 I find myself sovereign, fully expressed, and finally at home in my body. I feel more sensual and ignited than I ever did in my 20s or 30s, and I don't credit a partner for that. But this required me to stop submitting my life for external approval and to end the war I was waging against myself.

This isn’t manifestation, it’s liberation. And I want to share how I found it…

Because this wasn’t always my reality.

In my younger years I was hiding as "one of the boys," deeply disconnected from my femininity, and secretly jealous of women who seemed comfortable in their own skin. I didn’t yet have language for what I was starving for: a sense of my own sacredness, a creative fire, and permission to be fully, unapologetically myself.

I found it, unexpectedly, at the intersection of movement and magick.

I spent years developing an erotic movement practice and esoteric spiritual devotion, and they eventually alchemized into what is now known as Esoeroticism.

What began as a personal awakening became my life’s work. In 2017 I poured my heart and savings into opening Minx + Muse in Austin, TX, the first studio of its kind to hold both sensual movement and mystical practice under one roof. It was unconventional, it was unlike anything that existed, and it worked. For seven years I built something I loved with a community I adored.

And then the dark feminine did what she always does.

She called me into a death and rebirth.

Selling the studio was one of the hardest decisions of my life. There was grief in it—real, deep grief for the community and the chapter I was closing. But beneath the grief was the unmistakable knowing that this part of the journey was complete. My mistress (the sea) was calling and my next journey was waiting.

These things happen through this work: we are called to embody new and oftentimes unexpected ways of being.

I listened. I always listen now. Because the life on the other side of all that shedding? It isn’t the dulled, domesticated life they told you to expect as you age. It is electric. It is embodied. It is entirely, unapologetically yours! This is the world of Esoeroticism. And that is why I do this work.

Esoeroticism is for you if you're at a turning point and craving something you can't quite name… an aliveness, a fire, a deep sense of being turned on by your own existence. Not through a partner. Not through achieving more. Not by copying someone else’s blueprint. Through reclaiming your sovereign self.

If you feel it, you’re meant to be here. Welcome home. ✖️💋

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