I Am Not A Nudist

I mean, by definition, a nudist is someone who, whenever possible, gets naked. However, I do not always want to be naked. Thank you for tuning in your consciousness to the Naked Human podcast. I want to acknowledge your presence and what it took for you to to be here today listening. My intention for you is that you receive what you came here for and find what you didn't know you needed.

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I just really have it that today's conversation is important and it's deeper than just what words we use and what does the language mean and all of that. So I am not a nudist. I mean, by definition, a nudist is someone who, whenever possible, gets naked. Now, you know, maybe to a certain degree that is true for me. However, I don't get naked whenever possible because if I did, when I'm at my cabin in the woods, which is where I live and have this completely private space, I would be naked 24 7.

However, I do not always want to be naked. Sometimes it's cold, sometimes it's windy. Sometimes I just want to feel warm. Sometimes I'm feeling shame. Sometimes I'm like, oh, you know, feeling whatever I'm feeling in my body. It just feels better to throw on this really loose T shirt. It could show up for many reasons why I'm not naked.

Some of it is just like being mindful of the temperature in the environment, especially when it's, you know, below zero and there's snow outside and it's frigid and it's windy, like, that's just not super mindful for me to do for my body, especially. Especially on top of this. But if I'm having my bleed, like my moon time, that would be just, like, so harsh for my sensitive, bleeding, tender, vulnerable essence of myself. My body. Yes. My being at that time.

Yes. Which I can totally talk about in a different episode, about the different layers of menstruation and the energies of that. So anyway, being mindful about things like that, by the definition of what a nudist is, because the definition of nudist, again, is someone who gets naked at every possible opportunity that they can. Like, that's just not me. Also, I don't call myself a nudist because let's just, you know, call it to light.

The word nudist doesn't necessarily have a great connotation, especially when there's so much shame and resistance over the naked body and what the fuck that even means. Like, there's just so many different responses to that. Now, the. The word nudist and what it means to be a nudist in itself, it doesn't have those meanings. And shame about it. It's literally someone who's enjoying being naked. Like, that's really what it means. And I just don't use the word.

Now, people might call me a nudist because they have. They're like, oh, yeah, she's a nudist, okay? But I do not personally intentionally use those words.

I also don't use the words that I'm a naturist, though I would say that I resonate more with that, because a naturist is someone who enjoys being naked intentionally. Specifically in the context of nature. Like, being naked with nature outside. That's definitely my jam. Like, the earth, the natural environment is so my jam. If I was to choose a label, that would be more of the label I would choose because I feel like it encompasses more.

And also, a lot of people don't know what the word naturist means. Another word that sounds similar to naturist is naturalist, and that is someone who's connected to the natural environment, but it doesn't have any meaning about a naked body. So this is not a conversation to shame anyone about using the word nudist. If you're a nudist and you identify as a nudist and you love that word and you claim it and you rock it, like, fuck yeah. Fuck, yeah.

And if you're appalled by it and you're like, nah, that's not really my jam, great, you don't have to use the word.

My purpose and my intention is to bring illumination into the conversation of nudity. The deeper conversation about, like, hey, we all have a body. We all are born naked. We go back into the earth. We don't take anything with us. And while we're here, most of us, the majority of us are taught to shame our bodies to Hide them to cover them up and how inappropriate they are. So I'm here to bring light, to bring deeper connection and for me, with where I am in my journey.

I just choose not to reference myself as a nudist. Now that doesn't mean I am or I am not one. I like to break it down like this. I'm a human being, period. I have a body. I was born naked. When I remove any material possessions and manifestations in this physical world, I am left while still in my body with a bare naked body. I mean, that's, that's really it. Sometimes I'm over here. Like there's no meaning beyond this.

Like all this stuff about that's inappropriate, that's gross, cover that up. That's not okay. If you show your genitalia in this particular setting, we're going to arrest you and punish you. Like that's all just stuff that's there about it rooted in fear. So I'm not a nudist. I'm a human being having an experience, journeying, feeling, and who has somehow magically stumbled, fell into this experience of being naked.

And in one of my previous episodes, episode two, Nudity and Bondage, I share a story about how this medicine entered my life and how it was like, what's this? I just knew that it felt really good and liberating and something was changing internally. So something else that just popped in about being called a nudist is that sometimes, sometimes it can bring in some shame for wearing clothes and sometimes that can be brought upon by people who do call themselves nudist.

And that can just be brought upon by the shame of the conversation and the extreme end of talking about nudity. And maybe I might illuminate some of that as well for you, or that might be there for you through me, through posts, through conversations. I'm not sure if it is send me a message. So there can be this reversal aspect of feeling shame about wearing clothes. We're feeling shame about not being comfortable being naked. And that that's painful. I know what that's like.

I know what it's like to be like moving through some uncomfortable space within myself and then being presented with someone who doesn't have that uncomfortability. It's either inviting or it's painfully triggering. So I'm personally just mindful about the word and also communicating that the word itself from my perspective isn't enveloped with a bunch of story. So. So I am not anti nudist. I am not pro nudist.

I am just pro human being exploring the medicine of nudity, and for now, this transmission is complete. Thank you for tuning your consciousness to. This episode of the Naked Human. However you find yourself, whether whether it's relieved, enlightened, triggered, or as if the past minutes were a complete waste of your time, it's perfect. Be present to it and allow it to be the medicine you need. I welcome your feedback and heartfelt reflections. Of how this episode impacted you.

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