The following is my own journaling entry from prompt 1 from Healing With Words.

Dear Body,

I love you, I’m sorry, thank you.
We were betrayed a long time ago and it caused us to disconnect from one another. I didn’t know how to trust you. I didn’t know how to hear you. I promised myself back then that I would never enjoy being touched the way that he had touched me, yet you didn’t let me believe it completely. You knew what safety felt like, what pleasure felt like, and you kept that spark alive in me, so that when I began to undo this promise, to open up this box, pleasure and power were still there waiting for me to discover them. We’re doing this work together now. We’re unleashing the sexual goddess within who is reclaiming all that was always hers to claim. Thank you.

You are beautiful, I haven’t told you that enough. I had been brainwashed to want you to look different or act different and I wasted a lot of energy looking at you through that lens, but I won’t do that anymore. I can’t promise that I won’t fall back into these old thought patterns, but I will catch myself and I will not speak unkindly to you anymore.

Thank you for my babies. I’m sorry I didn’t trust in your ability at every stage of the process. I was so scared. But you did what you had to do and you did it beautifully. I am so lucky. Thank you.

Body, through you I get to experience the world, to taste, smell, hear, see, touch and feel all of this human experience. I will do my best to no longer take you for granted.

I love you, I’m sorry, thank you.