Julie Tenner - Flowers and Honey: The art of relationship, love and desire

Copyright 2020 by Julie Tenner.

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

First printing, 2020.

Printed on demand in Australia, United States and United Kingdom.

Edited and designed by Change Empire.

ISBN 978-0-6450217-2-1 (ebook)

978-0-6450217-3-8 (print)

Published by Change Empire

www.changeempire.com

For my children:

may you one day find this book

on a shelf of wisdom,

pick it up and open the pages.

May you feel my beating heart

yearning to whisper truths to you.

May you smell the baked goods and

hear the laughter we shared

over so many years in the

very space I wrote this book.

May you tuck its wisdom into your pocket

of golden nuggets and carry it forward

into creating the life of love

you were born to experience.

I love you.

Thank you for sharing your life with me.

Forever and always,

Mum xx

You can read the book from start to finish, or you can choose your own adventure!

To choose your own adventure, simply decide the destination you want to get to, or the desire you crave answers for, and head straight to those sections, listed below:

If youre ready for more after this, head over to julietenner.love and connect with me.

The suggestions and practises described in this book are not rules. You are not trading one set of rules for another. These are offerings and knowledge from a lifetime of self-work and spiritual practice, and 17 years of working with women, relationship and intimacy.

You do not have to follow anything word for word, but if youre willing, what youll find here is the missing key. The piece that a part of you has longed for, but not known how to access. This is the missing ingredient in a relationship built on trust, honesty and equilibrium. You can have an intellectually, spiritually and emotionally equal relationship but without energy polarity, you will not have sexual chemistry, desire and passion. This book paves the way for taking your relationship to the next level, to a place of intimate union: where we can love as equals and opposites, as two parts of a whole.

Information is power. You do not have choice if you do not know your choices. This book presents you with choice and power. Do you want to take it?

Pick one step or work your way through all five:

Go as fast as the slowest part of you.

Resistance is one step beyond closure, towards opening. You are moving in your own divine timing. Trust that.

Just feel.

Every time you feel, something, anything, youre in your feminine. Once you feel something, ask yourself how could I feel this even more? or how could this feel even better? Revisit the section Amplifcation.

Follow your pleasure. It will always lead you to what you desire.

Begin simply with what do I want right now? and give yourself that in every moment you ask it. Journal on it if that feels better. Set a reminder on your phone ask yourself this question every hour until you learn a new way of being in the world.

Book in some receiving time.

Receive a compliment, a massage, a hug, a rest, a hot kiss. Practise receiving (instead of doing), and youre practicing your feminine energy.

Communicate with I feel and try for fewer words and more body-feeling.

Julie Tenner is The Pleasure Nutritionist. A mother of four and an experienced facilitator of deep womens work, she is a naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist, counsellor, doula, intuitive bodyworker and Divine Feminine and embodiment leader who teaches women how to love wider, feel safe in surrender and open up to their untapped magnetic power.

The daughter of a yogi, Julie has a lifetime of spiritual practice and over 17 years of experience working intimately with womens physical, emotional and relationship health. She believes pleasure is the missing ingredient to womens wellbeing and their ability to radiate their love and light out into the world.

Julie creates safe and sacred space for women and couples to explore more of who they are and how they love. A sage and guide in womens mysteries, she infuses deep knowledge with humour in a distinctive combination of heart and soul, bringing awareness to dynamics and healing that lead the way for deep relationship transformation.

A born storyteller, Julie weaves old world magic with modern savviness, captivating audiences all around the world through facilitation of womens circles, ceremonies, events, online learning and training programs, in addition to co-hosting her podcast, Nourishing the Mother.

A self-proclaimed pilgrim of love, Julie will revolutionise the way you relate to yourself and the ones you love, bringing deeper connection and richer intimacy.

Thank you to all the women who shared their stories with me; it is an honour to tell them. Reader, I hope you, too, find yourself among their wisdom and feel the power of such diverse lived experience. May we all grow and learn from the wisdom of the stories women carry.

Soul-deep gratitude to Bridget Wood, who I met in 2013 at a playgroup. From that day forward, my heart and soul have known an alignment for which I will be forever grateful. Thank you for you, your belief in me and all the incredible heart-rich, soul-deep work weve done together. You light my heart on fire.

To all the magnificent podcast listeners who feel like best friends; knowing you were on the other end of that mic was often what gave me the fortitude to keep going. Thank you.

To the lovers and members of my work as it exists now: thank you for sharing your hearts, souls and most potent life experiences with me. Your ongoing support and vulnerable participation has been a profound honour and has shaped many of the words channelled, not only into my courses, but also onto these pages. Thank you.

Endless gratitude to Carlie Maree, without whom this book would not have been written. You saw me at a time I couldnt see myself. Thank you for you, your guidance and your courageous heart. My soul revels in watching you flourish.

Heart-aching, soul-opening gratitude to the magnificent human Ive had the honour of intimately sharing 20 years with, through arguably the greatest life transformations humans know. My husband, Nick who, as he reads this, will feel deeply uncomfortable with owning the light he himself embodies and has shed on mine. I couldnt have done this without you. I wouldnt want to do this without you. Thank you for your love, your unyielding support and your belief in me. And thank you for all the experiences that led to my wisdom. I love you, deeper than my humanness can comprehend.

Jules xx

This book is a temple. Please leave your self-berating or minimising dialogue at the temple door. You can pick it up again on the way out, if you want. This is a temple of feminine practice. These pages contain ancient teachings combined with the rich experiences of my life, as well as all the stories of women who have come before you. This is a book of Her-story (history as told by Her). You will hear what youve never heard before. Sometimes it will be hard. Sometimes it will feel like the scripture missing from your life. Heartbreak and heart opening are sacred. So lets worship together ego and criticism can wait outside. Come into the temple with me