Yes, ice baths, cold showers, extreme cold rituals are popular now because of good marketing. They are sold as quick fix. Sold as resilience. Sold as power.
But what no one tells you, for women, this is not power. On the contrary, it is draining of power. Cause a woman’s power is not in how much she can numb and resist but how much she can open and feel.
Why there is so much excitement around ice baths? One thing, it is trendy. Another, it is because cold triggers the stress response. Adrenaline, cortisol, fight or flight mode. The body wakes up because it feels under threat, not because it is nourished. This is not true vitality. It’s nervous system shock sold as empowerment.
And here is another deep truth that most don’t want to name. For many women, ice baths are just another LEGAL way to punish their body. To feel pain but hide it behind the word “will power”. To harden when they actually crave to soften. To contract when they actually crave to open.
Your body, your hormones, your nervous system—they run on warmth. On flow. On softness. on SAFETY
Muscles absolutely do not like cold, they spasm, they go into hypertonus, the body contracts, blood vessels shrink. Hormones lose their rhythm. The womb cools. And feminine energy quietly fades away.
Because Venus, the keeper of your beauty, your balance, your hormonal health, does not thrive in shock. She thrives in steady inner warmth and softness. She thrives in silk, in oils, in warm hands, in deep rest, in flow not in fighting her own nature. No flower blooms in frost. No fruit ripens in cold. Life opens where there is warmth. This is a law of the Universe.
The question is not: “Can I handle the cold?” Yes, you can, especially if you have strong Mars and/or Saturn. The real question is: “Does my body feel safe enough to open in the cold?”
Power is not how much you can push and endure. It’s about how deeply you understand what truly nourishes you and ALLOW yourself to receive it.