Nudity Is Medicine

But knowing that you're safe, like your body is safe, you are safe knowing that as you enter a container of nudity for healing in this capacity, there's an aspect of you that gets to fucking relax. 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 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.

This podcast is about what it means to be a human being and what it really means to be naked and how our relationship with Mother Nature has the power to heal us. My name is Carrie Cott and I'm a new to nature photographer, licensed physician of Chinese medicine, plant guide, and wild woman embodiment mentor. I help women heal from sexual trauma, awaken their authentic voice, and distinguish between fear and intuition so they can be led by their deep feminine heart.

I bring to life in this podcast my own internal wisdom. I will only share what I've learned and experience on a personal level. As you listen, I encourage you to take from this what you need and just trash the rest. So happy listening. Welcome, welcome. So I really did think that this first episode would be something of a personal story share. And even as I say that, I'm just really presence to that. Everything is personal.

Whether we're sharing a specific story where we're like, this is a personal share by me, or we're speaking to something that we're really connected to or sharing about something that we're passionate about, it's all personal. There are just different deliveries of that which we're passionate about that we're connected to.

So this personal story, this episode, is about nudity as medicine. And when I reference medicine in any of my conversations, it's a connection that everything, everything that we're connected to that has the access within ourselves for transformation, for healing is medicine. And I also want to preface, preface, however you say the word correctly, that this is not a conversation. None of these conversations are about getting you to do or not do anything.

I'm offering a perspective in which you are welcome to connect to or not, that you're welcome to integrate into your life or not. So it's really an invitation to something greater. So nudity is medicine. There's an aspect of the experience of intentional nudity, conscious nudity, that is indescribable with it being intentional as I speak to it. It's about having a container, a mindfulness, a space, like a sacred space of knowing that you are safe.

I've experienced being naked in spaces like, oh, we're changing, we're naked, there's a gathering and people get naked or partially naked and they're swimming or skinny dipping or whatever. And those experiences have all landed differently for me than being in intentional spaces where I know that I am safe, which has been a part of healing. So no matter how you experience it can be medicine. It's not saying that one's better or greater, they're just different.

And especially using it intentionally for the purpose of healing, of healing sexual traumas, emotional traumas, physical traumas, surgeries, miscarriages, abortions, being abused physically through touch, menstrual pain, sleep issues, low self esteem, whatever it is.

Having an intentional space of knowing that you are safe is really important, especially when you've experienced and are really sensitive and present to the quote, unquote violations to your body, to your being, to your heart, to your innocence. So everything that is in an intentional container with clear boundaries has greater potential, in my opinion, to be more profoundly healing.

And that is definitely not to say any other experiences that happen are not profoundly transformative, because that is not an aspect of this conversation. But knowing that you're safe, like your body is safe, you are safe knowing that as you enter a container of nudity for healing in this capacity, there's an aspect of you that gets to fucking relax and to be with what this medicine brings to the surface. It's the distinction between getting naked and being naked.

Getting naked is taking off your clothes. Being naked is a deeper process of vulnerability. It's knowing that there's more about you and this experience that is there to be felt and experienced. So really, nudity being medicine, it's an experience. And the thing with experiences is that in so much they're indescribable and they're also very unique to the individual.

If you've ever done plant medicine journeys like you go into a portal to receive the medicine you need, and you do it through the avenue of this plant. Or if you're a runner, you take on a marathon and you go into the medicine through this portal of a marathon, what you experience, what you have to be with, what you transform, what you bump up against, what you have resistance about, the emotions as you're training, as you're in the marathon, all of that is so unique.

It's an experience through the portal of something. And that's what nudity is. Because all the stuff that's there to be transformed through this medicine will have an opportunity to bubble up to the surface. And there's layers of it. So like the person who gets presented with nudity and says, oh, no, no, I could never do that.

It's bumping up against something internally that has potential to be healed, to be felt and released through the medicine of nudity, because it's literally evoking some discomfort. So then when you enter in to the nudity, that discomfort, if it's still present by the time you come into a container of it, an experience of it intentionally has the possibility of getting freed up and sometimes layers. For example, I host. I don't really call it hosting. I'm hosting this podcast.

I guess that's why that word was there. And I hold space for. For women in the medicine of nudity. And so some of the things that are initially there get cleared up, get released and healed before they even come to the ceremony, to the retreat, to the event. Because you're going in to a portal. It's like coming out of the birth canal. Things get squeezed out to enter into this new world.

And also there's other things that I intentionally have in place to help support women, to process the things that are right there at the surface that we can get as much out the way before we actually connect in person. Like an intake form integration calls a space that we have connection, a WhatsApp group that we can share, be seen, be heard, ask questions, allowing the nervous system to relax. And maybe you're thinking in this conversation, well, what if I don't?

What if I don't have an intentional container space? What if I'm a man? Or what if I'm a woman and I'm not coming to one of your events? It can all be done whether you come to one of my events or not. It's a bad intention. And about creating a space with yourself to explore. You can do this by yourself in your own home. You can do this by yourself. Outside, you can do this by yourself by going to a nude beach, going with an intention, attending to the things you might need for that.

It might feel intimidating. Going to a nude beach, maybe you don't feel as safe that maybe that feels like super vulnerable. And just taking a look at what do I need in order to explore this intentionally with purpose, the purpose for discovery, of connecting deeper with myself. And our bodies, our human bodies that we all have. You have a body, I have a body. Trees have a body, My cats have a body. Plants have a body. Insects have a body. Planet Earth has a body. Water has a body.

Consciousness, all of consciousness. In this manifested plane, has a body in which it expresses itself. So when it comes to the physicality of nudity, we all have bodies. We are all inherently naked. You might be thinking, aw, that cat has fur, or, well, that's a part of its natural body expression. Just like you have hair. It's not actually hiding itself. It is created the way it's created for a reason. The difference between deciduous and coniferous trees.

One loses its leaves in the fall, the winter, and regrows them. The other has them throughout the entire year. They're all just unique expressions and they're all containers, bodies. So in the human world, there's a whole lot of meaning about what a naked body is.

Nakedness, it's so collapsed, meaning it gets put together and is looked at as sex. Nudity equals sex collapsed together. When they're actually individual things. I have this joke, I don't even know if it's a joke, but it's like they're. They're not the same thing because I know lots of people who have sex with their clothes on. So if nudity equaled sex, then everybody would have sex naked. And they don't. So therefore that is the reason why they are not the same thing.

But they're not the same thing because I've almost always taken a shower naked, except for, you know, rinsing off at the beach, and I have a bathing suit on. Like, is the shower sexual in and in itself? No. Is my body? Is the human body? Is your body inherently asexual? No, the body is the body, period. It's all the meaning and the stories that are compounded, associated, magnetized, attached to, attached. Attached, attached to the body.

It's too fat, it's too thin, too tall, too short, whatever the story is. Oh, when I wear this, it's too sexual. Oh, when I wear this, it's too modest. All this clutter and junk of a story associated with the body. What's appropriate and inappropriate, what's right and what's wrong, what's okay and not okay. All of that is made up story. And it's meaning. That's a whole lot of meaning. Whole lot of meaning. Whole lot of meaning about what your body is and isn't.

So the medicine of nudity brings that stuff to the surface as an opportunity of healing. Healing the judgments and stories and the specific things that have been imprinted for you since you were a child, your adult life, and all the stuff you made things mean about you, about you and your body, all the times you were sexualized. Got imprinted in your body. And it's like the. The suit of your clothes. And the suit of your body has been carrying around this energetic junk and clutter.

And it manifests as a whole lot of things in your life. Unhappiness, irritability, weight gain, menstrual issues, cramps, headaches, bloating, fatigue, fear, worry, things not happening that you want to happen in your life. All of it creates clutter in your life.

And then you enter into this incredible space of just taking the off. By taking the off, I mean your clothes. You take your clothes off, you literally take off this gunk that's so imprinted into your clothes. Because guess what? Most likely you have not intentionally chosen to wear clothes. You can, you can be powerful in choosing to wear clothes.

And I'm going to make an assumption, and maybe it's incorrect for you, maybe it's correct for you in this moment, but you did not intentionally choose to wear clothes. There's never been a point in your life that you were like, I choose to wear clothes. No, you didn't have a choice. You were a kid to put your clothes on. Most kids don't want to be wearing clothes. They're told they're made to put clothes on. That is not choice. So that, that gets removed.

Whatever is there for you to heal can be removed with your clothing. And then being in the presence of being naked and being with now what, what else is there? So it's like removing layers, peeling that onion of yourself. And then you sit in the nudity, or you walk, or you stand, or you yoni son, or you do whatever you're doing while you're naked, but you're in an intentional space of being naked.

And it's even more profound in my personal opinion, if you're outside and allowing the earth to support you in this healing process. Because being outside, once you're naked, you're bare. There becomes another layer of shedding and healing through. Through the sun, through the wind, through the air, through the microbes, through the dirt, through the earth, through the trees.

It's like that layer of judgment placed on your body has an opportunity to shed and be released through the support of the natural elements, through the earth. And even if you do it inside, you can still experience this. There's just a different capacity of it.

Being outside and allowing yourself to feel through your body, because your clothed body is inhibiting the sun, the wind, the microbes, the textures, the smells to be experienced through the entirety of your body, through your nipple, through the side of your breast through the low of your back. Like, all your skin is your largest organ, and it can absorb smells and textures and touch and feeling. Like all the sensory experience of a naked body experiencing life swimming.

I mean, come on, swimming naked. There's no barrier inhibiting this really powerful, sensual, healing connection. So really, there's this endless portal of nudity being medicine, and there's definitely no right or wrong way to experience it. There's just more intentional capacities in which it is experienced. And that's really up to you. You can enter into one created like the ones that I create.

You can enter into them within yourself, going into spaces to explore this for yourself, always having a conversation of setting a container with yourself. And before I complete this transmission in this episode, I would really like to remind you that wherever you are in this journey, with the experience of nudity as medicine, I want you to know that wherever you are. I get that this might sound so cliche. It's perfect. It has to be, because it's exactly where you are.

Like, there's no judgment about where you are in your journey of this. Maybe you're listening and you're, like, intrigued or repulsed, but I'd be surprised if you were repulsed and you got this far in the episode. And maybe you've been getting naked for a really long time. Like, wherever you are in your journey is exactly where you are. And so this episode and all my other episodes are not based in some perspective that you need to be somewhere you're not.

It's not based in the perspective that you even need to get naked. And if you're listening, the medicine is calling you. It's calling you because you're listening. And there's something. There's a whole lot of somethings yearning to be felt and experienced through your body in this way. And so with this, this transmission is complete. For now.

Thank you for tuning your consciousness to this episode of the Naked Human. However you find yourself, 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. You can share with me online at the Naked Human podcast dot com.

And if you're feeling called for a more personalized experience into your nakedness, I invite you to join our community of wild women in person or online. You can find more specifics@thenakedhumanpodcast.com and until next time, bye.