ONLINE GATHERING
Writing as a Pathway to Pleasure
SUNDAY, FEB 23RD
4:00 PM -5:30 PM PT | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET
ONLINE GATHERING
Writing as a Pathway to Pleasure
SUNDAY, FEB 23RD
4:00 PM -5:30 PM PT | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET
Come celebrate the release of Catherine Simone Gray’s memoir Proud Flesh and awaken your erotic imagination through writing – with sexological bodyworker Kimberly Ann Johnson
In this online workshop, you will…
- be led through a simple and connecting somatic practice with Kimberly
- play with writing as a pathway to your erotic power through guided writing prompts with Catherine
- hear Catherine read an intimate passage from her new memoir Proud Flesh
- find a welcoming space to ask questions about pleasure, creativity, and motherhood
- experience the full-bodied goodness flowing between these two visionaries for erotic liberation
U.S. participants will receive a copy of Catherine’s memoir after it is released on Feb. 25, 2025. *Proud Flesh is currently only available for participants in the U.S. – however the workshop is open to participants worldwide and we will donate a copy of the book Proud Flesh our non-profit partner Springboard to Opportunities on your behalf.
Through times of collective heaviness, we need space to cultivate pleasure and imagination.
How can writing be an ally in our living and loving?
How can we move closer to what feels good?
Our erotic energy can be intimately connected to our creative energy.
In both writing and eroticism, we bring our curiosity, our presence to what arises moment to moment, and our expression of our deepest selves.
Writing can be a powerful pathway to pleasure when shifts in the erotic realm itself feel out of reach due to trauma, relationship limits, life stressors–we could go on.
Your imagination is a potent force, and it is available to you at all times. What if it could help you shape an erotic life that feels deliciously yours?
This is a low-stakes place to explore YOUR desires with a spirit of curiosity and non-judgment about whatever emerges and what you truly want today, as well as to inspire you to find language that feels true to your own erotic expression.
Join us for a delicious workshop with authors, teachers, and culture shapers of pleasure - Kimberly Ann Johnson and Catherine Simone Gray.
This is a collaboration very close to our hearts, as Kimberly was Catherine’s teacher, a formative force in healing her trauma and reclaiming her sexuality. Then Kimberly read and fell in love with Catherine’s memoir. This is real-life community and village building across shared purpose. Now we want to welcome you into this circle of love as we build a world where women experience more pleasure.
JOIN US ON SUNDAY, FEB 23RD FROM 4:00 PM TO 5:30 PM PT.
WORKSHOP COST
Let’s gather to move closer to our most alive desires – not what we think we should desire and not what we desired before – and to celebrate women’s sexuality as a creative force.
Catherine Simone Gray
Catherine Simone Gray is a writer and teacher. Her writings on motherhood and healing first appeared on her blog Unsilenced Woman, where her piece about teaching her son consent reached 2.5 million around the world. Featured by Roxane Gay in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series, her work has also appeared in The Bitter Southerner and the Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape. Gray is the recipient of a literary arts fellowship with the Mississippi Arts Commission.
With over a decade of experience as a writing teacher to people aged eight to eighty, she holds a master of arts in curriculum and instruction. She leads writing circles for women, mothers, and caregivers, exploring how writing can be an ally in our living and loving. She also shares her writing on her author Instagram account.
Catherine Simone Gray
Catherine Simone Gray is a writer and teacher. Her writings on motherhood and healing first appeared on her blog Unsilenced Woman, where her piece about teaching her son consent reached 2.5 million around the world. Featured by Roxane Gay in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series, her work has also appeared in The Bitter Southerner and the Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape. Gray is the recipient of a literary arts fellowship with the Mississippi Arts Commission.
With over a decade of experience as a writing teacher to people aged eight to eighty, she holds a master of arts in curriculum and instruction. She leads writing circles for women, mothers, and caregivers, exploring how writing can be an ally in our living and loving. She also shares her writing on her author Instagram account.
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, Sexological Bodyworker, postpartum advocate and birth doula. She is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good, the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester translated in 8 languages, the audio series Reclaim the Feminine: Embodied Sexuality as Spiritual Practice and Reckoning (2022) co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson. She is also the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with nearly 1 million unique downloads.
She graduated Valedictorian with a Bachelors of Science in Social Policy and African-American Studies from Northwestern University. She lives in San Diego, California with her 16-year-old Brazilian daughter, Cecília.
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, Sexological Bodyworker, postpartum advocate and birth doula. She is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good, the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester translated in 8 languages, the audio series Reclaim the Feminine: Embodied Sexuality as Spiritual Practice and Reckoning (2022) co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson. She is also the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with nearly 1 million unique downloads.
She graduated Valedictorian with a Bachelors of Science in Social Policy and African-American Studies from Northwestern University. She lives in San Diego, California with her 16-year-old Brazilian daughter, Cecília.
YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, Sexological Bodyworker, postpartum advocate and birth doula. She is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good, the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester translated in 8 languages, the audio series Reclaim the Feminine: Embodied Sexuality as Spiritual Practice and Reckoning (2022) co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson. She is also the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with nearly 1 million unique downloads.
She graduated Valedictorian with a Bachelors of Science in Social Policy and African-American Studies from Northwestern University. She lives in San Diego, California with her 16-year-old Brazilian daughter, Cecília.
