The companion workbook to Thriving in Sex Work is filled with exercises, budgets, self-care guides, and business plans to keep your mind, body, and business thriving. Available on Amazon in paperback.
This week's taste is on boundaries in sex work-- critical to your health and emotional wellbeing.
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I’m happy to announce that I’ll be releasing the Thriving in Sex Work Workbook in March. It’s a companion guide to Thriving in Sex Work, filled with exercises, budgets, self-care guides, and business plans to keep your mind, body, and business thriving. Here's a taste!
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From the upcoming "Thriving in Sex Work Workbook": All day, every day on the job, we’re bombarded with messages telling us “This is how the sex industry is.” A major theme of this workbook is challenging your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. This requires special attention to telling them apart. All too often, we have a tendency to treat these things as if they’re all the same. They are not.
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The Thriving in Sex Work Workbook is a companion guide to Thriving in Sex Work, filled with exercises, budgets, self-care guides, and business plans to keep your mind, body, and business thriving. A selected excerpt from the Introduction.
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For the month of December, I’m offering paperback copies of Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry to any US or Canadian nonprofit at my cost: US $10, which includes shipping.
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I've been reading a lot of tweets and posts about seasonal business slowdown, so here's a post on winter and self care from Thriving in Sex Work.
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Summer is all about sunscreen and hydration. Winter months are all about staying healthy, active and balanced to keep your body — and your business — in top shape.
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When I was working, I could never get enough love. Or maybe it would be better to say I didn’t have the ability to live in love. It was like a medical condition where you’re getting plenty of Vitamin C in your diet, but your body can’t absorb it, so your teeth fall out due to scurvy. I would characterize that time, even in the midst of all my relative good fortune, as feeling starved for love.
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I used to hammer away at myself when I worked-- the slightest little mix-up or error, and I would beat myself up mercilessly for days.
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Sex work can bring such an emotional high—that rush from turning someone on and earning cold hard cash. But it doesn’t last. Once you earn $400 for a couple of shifts, it takes $600 to feel like a great night. $200 can feel like a catastrophe, even if before you started stripping, that might have felt like a huge payday.
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The only thing worse than some bad thing unexpected happening is that sinking feeling that comes from knowing we didn’t prepare for it when we could have. We owe it to ourselves to set contingencies in place, just in case.
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