Meet Josefina Bashout

Today we’d like to introduce you to Josefina Bashout.

Josefina, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
My story is a journey that takes me from- riches to rags to self-love and then finally rising in pleasure while reclaiming my feminine magic. It’s a tale of a young girl who was born into a life of riches & affluence until one day at the age of nine, it all came crashing down with my parent’s divorce. It felt as if I had fallen from grace and suddenly, I found myself living a life of rags, literally living below the poverty line. My mom couldn’t support herself and her six kids and my father departed the states and went back to the Middle East after the divorce so that created massive life challenges + adversity for me at a very young age that created a lasting negative ripple effect throughout my mid-twenties.

During that time I felt:
Numbed out with booze, sex, food, + partying.
I was so mean + unkind to myself, paralyzed with self-doubt.
Created a tough + hard exterior shell protection my heart
I didn’t feel safe in the world or on my own body so I could never relax.
I choose to be in unhealthy + toxic relationships where I began to shrink.
I was angry, aggressive, pushy, and hot-headed.
I felt so broken, unloveable, depressed, repressed, and alone in life.
Disconnected from my body, sensuality, and femininity due to trauma.

In 2010, at age 26, I was diagnosed with pre-cervical cancer CIN III which doctors wanted me to go under the knife and cut out parts of my cervix that were cancerous. I was terrified and thought my whole life was over as well as felt shame like I was failing as a woman and that yet again, I’m going through another issue with being in a female body. I had felt like I was not ready to let some authority outside of me take away my freedom, tell me what I must do with my own body. So I set off on a journey of Self-Healing exploring alternative medicine, herbs and other eastern healing modalities in order to find the right support to help me heal the root cause of the cancerous cells. This was my spiritual path to conscious awakening both spiritually and sexually where I discovered meditation, tantra, yoga, the power of our beliefs, and quantum physics. After a two years journey, I healed myself naturally and defied western medicine without ever going to a traditional doctor again, except to show them my miraculous test results!

I became awakened & aware of a new limitless reality through the doorway of my genitals which lead me into my greatest sexual trauma & emotional healing. If it weren’t for this very scary wake-up call from my body, I would have never looked at my emotional baggage or the energy I was creating inside the culture of my body. I didn’t process, addressed, or could even access this trauma until I explored healing myself from CIN III.

I choose to BE in my body & love every inch of it as well as re-establish a connection to the intelligence that exists inside of my cells and this is where I found:
Healing + Expression
Empowerment + Joy
Hope + Safety within
Liberation + My life’s purpose
Orgasmic Pleasure + Acceptance
Infinite Self-Love & Cheerful Confidence
Connection to something greater than myself
Freedom + Bliss in my body, movement, and voice
Sensually + Sexually Alive, expressed, and connected

From then on, I devoted my life to a path of self-healing, sexual healing + empowerment because I realized through my own healing journey that THIS was the core root of the issues I was having. Suppressed and unaddressed emotional pain manifested as sickness and illness in my body that woke me up in the form of CIN III and became the greatest gift and teacher of my life! I have traveled the world teaching the ancient science + tools of tantra for self-healing, liberating sexual energy & personal power.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
I felt like I was in a prison all the time in my life and honestly felt like most of my earlier years on life was filled with nothing but struggle. I didn’t know what it felt like to truly be free in my body, mind, spirit, or financially nor did I know what I felt like to receive unconditional love from myself. I was living in so much judgment, shame, and blame which are the lowest vibrational energies in the measured frequency field. I had no idea I was a kid at the time and this story that I created from such a young age painted my teenage and early adult years.

So as a result of my parent’s divorce, I was living in and out of motels + homeless shelters with part of my family and at the age of 10 escaped almost being abducted at the gun on my way home from starting 6th grade. During this time, I was also deeply suffering from sadness + anger from both the divorce and being separated from my family as well as trauma from the sexual & physical abuse I had experienced from my mom’s partner at the time just two weeks prior to almost being kidnapped which, is why I was taken out of our home and into the system for protection. At this point in my young life, I was now trying to navigate my way through the LA County foster care system for almost two years, had to go to court to speak up against my child abuser and went to about six different middle schools until I was finally reunited with my family. This was a lot for a young 12-year-old girl to process and I didn’t have the resources or support to help me feel safe to express myself so I kept it all inside of me and my body stored this story which went into my womb although I didn’t know it at the time.

I share this part of my story because I know I’m not the only one who has gone through hardships like this or have had fears of where they’re going to eat or sleep or rest their head at night due to financial circumstances or dysfunctional family dynamics. This is really where my warrior priestess work started because all I had was my faith + prayer+ my sisters at times and the strong belief that this would all be over one day and I would be happily back with my family all together. Let’s fast forward through the Hollywood partying, popping bottles, limo rides, wild times of my early twenties when the world was my oyster and I was still so unhappy within my self and numbing out my pain. I say that I was looking for love + connection at the bottom of a shot glass. I began seeking everything outside of myself to try and make me feel happy, fulfilled, and worthy of love.

At age 26, I was diagnosed with pre-cervical cancer CIN III which doctors wanted me to go under the knife and cut out parts of my cervix and now risk not being able to carry a child and I was not ready to let some authority outside of me take away my freedom and tell me that I must do it there way. So I set off on a journey of Self-Healing exploring alternative medicine, herbs and other eastern healing modalities in order to find the right support to help me heal the root cause of the cancerous cells. This was my spiritual path to conscious awakening both spiritually and sexually. I had so many trials a tribulations and I still don’t know someone who has gone through as many challenges as I have all before the age of 26 years old – I truly feel like this was all preparing me for my lives mission and work so that I could relate to as many people as possible and get a lot of this healing done so that I could make a difference in the world through my story, training, and real-life experiences. My life has been filled with so many learning and growth opportunities that my soul had agreed to work with before I was born on earth and entered into this cosmic classroom. I cheer on and celebrate everyone who is doing this deep soul work to elevate themselves into a higher level of awareness + healing so that we can all feel whole, loved, and complete again accepting that we will always be a work in progress as long as we live. This helps created a smoother and more pleasurable life experience when I let go of the idea that I will one day be a finished “product” and instead accept that I will always be a student curious and in the learning which is a more loving way to be with myself.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I’m on a global mission to empower & liberate the feminine helping women OWN who they are and live fully expressed, Unabashedly, and authentically as who they were born to be!

I am internationally known as “The Pussy Priestess” as I have specialized a few methods I work with my female clients rooted in the ancient feminine healing arts. I am certified with a background in spiritual psychology which ground my work in a real practical way and blends beautifully with my sacred sexuality work which is vert needed on our planet right now. Collectively there us so much shame, fear, repression, and abuse when it comes to sexual energy + our relationship to sex, our body, and the opposite sex. Focusing on the area of sexuality, sacred intimacy, conscious relating & spiritual awakening, I give my clients something new which I call “Orgasmic fuel” for body + mind + soul nourishment. I can honestly say that It’s my energy that attracts and sets me apart from everyone else and that’s because you can’t fake energy in a world that is filled with false images and promises.

My work has been highly sought after and has taken me to South America, Costa Rica, + Mexico running women’s empowerment seminars as well as sacred intimacy ceremonies. I was the resident Priestess at Petit Ertimage where I would host a bi-monthly women’s workshop for the private club members, have facilitated at Soho House Hollywood, and have been featured on numerous podcasts and TV shows guiding the feminine conversation forward. A Women’s mental, emotional, and sexual healthy is super important for the well-being of everyone on this planet as when the feminine is set free her creative energy sets positive + pleasurable ripples across the world that can flow as new creative ideas, better loving romantic relationships, happier healthier home environments, more money and success in business. I believe it was the Holiness Dalai Lama who said that it would be “the western woman who would change the world” and living in the west, women here have many more opportunities to do this healing work than anywhere else in the world. I’m here to help make that a reality and shape a more harmonious relationship to the feminine regardless of your gender.

I also have a very special gift of being able to find exactly the place in a person that is dark, disconnected, and needs to be TURNED ON. I can go right into that spot and turn on their inner light so they can elevate and become empowered by their own doing- its a superpower and always miraculous to witness it in action. I have another specialty in cultivating real authentic and supportive sisterhood relationships creating a very open, unconditionally, loving, and playful space that most women have not experienced before. I know that from doing this works for over seven years that nothing helps like the world like having as many turned on women as possible living + owning their pleasure so they can infuse it into every aspect of their life. The whole world really benefits from happy pussies, empowered minds + liberated bodies!

What sets me apart is the integration of my life experiences along with the weaving of all my studies in Tantra, Shamanic Healing Arts, Plant Medicine Ceremonies, and the many different Priestess initiations I have received in the jungles of Thailand, Costa Rica, and Bali that helped my nurture the natural Egyptian Priestess gifts that I was born with as both of my parents come from a lineage of Priests + Priestess + Healers.

Women come to me thinking one way about life, living inside of a box from their the past that keeps them in some kind of inner prison. After working together, they leave LIBERATED, LIT UP, TURN ON, EMPOWERED knowing how to create their best life with all-new tools as she embodies her divine feminine potential, expands her capacity for pleasure and feeling really connected to herself all along the way!!

Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
The empowering belief in myself & my potential as well as being surrounded by big thinkers that are making an impact in the world as it continues to reflect back to me what’s possible in a limitless reality. In regards to personal qualities, I’m devoted to my personal growth + expansion in all ways so I lean into my edges of discomfort and have made it a practice to get comfortable with the uncomfortable from a young age. I have let go of striving which has brought when me more money, joy, pleasure & success in every area of my life than I ever achieved when I was grinding and hustling and striving for success. Being focused on making a difference as my KEY driving power, serving, helping + empowering others. Never seeing clients/people as just numbers or “separate” which shifts my mindset into a win/win dynamic.

Here is are my top Qualities:
Self-Love + Devotion
Integrity + Kindness
Generosity + Compassion
Courage + Curiosity + Freedom
Authentic Expression + Vulnerability

Contact Info:

• Website: www.josefinabashout.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/josefinabashout
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/josefinabashout

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