The good girl will eventually start costing you YOUR life. It is a huge price to pay to keep others appeased and pleased. . The good woman archetype will ask you to silence your truth.Your boundaries.Your desire.Your power.Your capacity to actually inhabit the woman you are and the one you are becoming. . In this episode of Alchemy with Sheeana Leigh, I sit down with professional dominatrix, feminine embodiment practitioner and absolute powerhouse Lotus Eros for a raw conversation about what it actually takes to become a woman who can hold her own power. . Lotus opens up about her own season of death and rebirth. Stepping away from her work, confronting the sisterhood and witch wounds still living within her, raising her standards, meeting the places she was still people pleasing, and allowing an entirely new expression of her work and leadership to emerge. . Together, we explore the messy, delicious territory of feminine power, sexuality, shadow, nervous-system safety, self-abandonment, kink, vulnerability and embodied leadership. . We speak about: • how the “good girl” hides inside far more than simply being nice• people pleasing, self-abandonment and the need to be perceived as good• why nervous-system safety is foundational to holding more power• the dark feminine, the witch wound and the historical villainisation of powerful women• why feminine leadership doesn't need to replicate masculine models of power• sexuality and kink as portals into shadow, liberation and self-knowledge• domination, submission, surrender and the psychology of power• why tenderness and vulnerability belong inside real leadership• learning to catch self-betrayal while it's happening• becoming attuned enough to know what is actually alive in your body• the death, pause and shedding required before something new can emerge• moving from power-over into embodied power from within This is the new era of embodied feminine leadership. - Soft front. Strong spine.Tender heart. Deep boundaries.The capacity to lead... and the capacity to surrender. . The woman the world taught you to fear was never the villain. It is just the woman who is no longer willing to abandon herself.... . If this episode lit a fire in you - pass the flame! Send it to the woman who's done making herself smaller, softer or more palatable to belong. Share it. Leave a review. Subscribe to Alchemy with Sheeana Leigh. And come find me and tell me what cracked open for you. Every listen, share and review helps these conversations reach another woman who might need them. And we're only getting started. For the women becoming harder to contain and impossible to abandon. Welcome to Alchemy. 🖤 . Connect with Lotus via The Temple of Lotus and follow her work in holistic feminine leadership, sexuality, kink and embodied power.Lotus Eros is a Professional Dominatrix, published author, speaker and educator working predominantly across Newcastle, the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane.Her work explores the transformative potential of kink, tantra and conscious power dynamics, with a particular fascination for the transmutation of shame through desire. She is passionate about creating a new era of Female Dominants, with 'Holistic Feminine Leadership' emerging as the newest iteration of Lotus's work.Through her work with both Dominants and submissives, Lotus explores what becomes possible when we stop hiding from the parts of ourselves we've been taught to suppress. For Dominants, this can look like embodiment, authentic authority and exploring darker feminine archetypes. For submissives, it can mean surrendering into their deepest desires, owning what they want without shame, and discovering the freedom and transformation that can exist on the other side.Alongside her Professional Domination practice, Lotus facilitates conscious kink trainings and temple nights, speaks on sexuality, power and embodiment, and co-hosts the Sx Education Stage at SXhibition.
