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LaRue Swann writes at the intersection of sacred sensuality, research, and reclamation. Welcome to a sanctuary where desire is data, moans are medicine, and the body remembers what the world tried to make us forget.
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Safe Submission (opens the original)
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I came across a comment recently from EbonyJanice, and it stopped me in my scroll. She was responding to a post about why some women choose submission, and her point was simple but sharp: feminist and womanist conversations have to make room for safe submission. We can't keep having conversations about softness, about wanting to exist in a "soft girl era," without naming that softness is often really about surrendering to safety. And she took it further saying if the people around us, including
Self Permission (opens the original)
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There’s an annoying kind of weathering that comes from believing every good thing needs to be approved before we can experience it. Rest has to be pre-approved. Joy has to be pre-approved. Even growing into the fullest version of yourself has to be pre-approved by someone else first, proven first, justified first. And in a life built around service, devotion, and surrender, that belief can get especially loud. It starts to feel like our voice must wait for the experience, the life, or dynamic we
It Gets to Be Easy (opens the original)
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Some of us believe that protecting what we love has to be hard to be real. That if devotion doesn't cost us something of ourselves, if it doesn't come with strain, hesitation, or a little bit of suffering, then maybe it isn't devotion at all. Maybe it's not deep enough. Maybe we're not doing it right.Subscribe nowIn the previous addition to our mantras, we discussed the importance of care and how it̵
A Soft Place to Be (opens the original)
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Honoring the anniversary of my father’s passing after a bout of illness has reminded me more and more that at the core of me, a giver who never receives will become depleted. Depletion for me is not being fulfilled properly, and properly is used intentionally. We discuss care as if it is a catch-all. In reality, care is very unique, hence why there are at least 7 different types of rest. Because of that variety, we need our things for care, and they need to be unique to us. Otherwise, without th
The Wellspring of Sovereignty (opens the original)
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There's a version of service that I think a lot of us have lived this version at some point, whether in a D/s dynamic, a relationship, a family role, or just life, where devotion is mistaken for disappearance. You give and give, and somewhere along the way you stop being a whole person with needs and start being a function. A role. A thing that keeps other things running. Devotion, real devotion, doesn't ask you to vanish. It holds you and there’s a difference between being held by something big
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