You're right, it was definitely an amazing experience and made me realize that it was perfectly fine and natural to embrace this part of myself.

Interestingly enough, even though I had told her that this was my first real experience with BDSM, she told me at the end of the session that "whoever had me before her had done an excellent job training me". I politely reminded her that this was my first real session, and she responded with "then you were born for this". Even now, many years later, I realize how liberating and inspiring those words were and what a gift they were to me. In fact, I sue those words in my profile to this day.