Reality Check My Life | Midnight Snack | E28p1: When They Call It Sexual, They Often Mean Alive
(Prana, Chi, Shakti, and the Pop-Spirituality Problem)

If you’re listening to this late…
when the house is quiet and your nervous system finally stops performing…
this one’s for you.

Tonight we untangle a word that’s caused a lot of quiet harm.

“Sexual.”

The label so many of us were given simply for being embodied.
For being warm.
For being present.
For being alive.

In a culture that only has one red crayon for intensity, anything radiant gets misnamed as desire.

But what if what people are actually sensing isn’t sexuality at all?

What if it’s life force?

In this Midnight Snack, Gin gently dismantles the pop-spirituality myth that “sexual energy is healing energy” and replaces it with something far more grounded, biological, and compassionate:

Generative energy.
Regenerative energy.
Nervous system safety.
Embodiment.
Coherence.

Through lived stories, mycelium metaphors, and late-night honesty, we explore:

• why presence gets mislabeled as seduction
• how tantra and “sacred sexuality” got flattened into marketing
• the biology of safety vs. arousal
• why strangers open up to regulated people
• how healers are embodied, not disembodied
• and why aliveness is not an invitation for access

This isn’t about shame.
This isn’t about repression.
This is about language.

Because when you call life force “sexual,”
people start thinking their existence is consent.

And that’s a burden no one should have to carry.

If you’ve ever been told you’re “too much,” “too magnetic,” or “too intense”…
this episode might feel like an exhale.

You’re not too sexual.

You’re alive.

And aliveness is sacred.