Understand your body, build self-trust, and explore what becomes possible when you know yourself from the inside out.

How well do you understand your own body? Not just how it works, but how it feels. The signals it gives you, the patterns you notice, the things that affect your energy, your desire, pleasure and sense of connection with yourself.

Many women reach adulthood knowing surprisingly little about their own bodies beyond the basics. We may have learned about periods, reproduction and contraception, but had far fewer opportunities to understand our internal sensations, recognise our individual patterns, explore pleasure or develop a relationship with our own sexuality.

Body literacy is the practice of learning to notice, interpret and respond to your body’s signals with greater understanding and discernment. It also invites us to pay attention to our energy: how it shifts, where we feel vitality or depletion, and how changes in sensation, mood and desire shape our experience. These more subtle aspects of being in a body can be harder to put into words, but they are part of what makes learning to understand ourselves such a rich and personal process.

What does it mean to be body literate?

Curiosity is key – learning to recognise what you feel, understand something about why it might be happening, become familiar with your own patterns and make informed choices about how to respond. This can include understanding your body’s internal signals, exploring the female pelvis, learning about sensory experience, recognising what supports your wellbeing, and developing a more informed relationship with pleasure, desire and sexuality.

This work is not about reaching a particular ideal of health, embodiment or sexual expression, it is about having more knowledge, more choice and a better understanding of your own body.

The parts of ourselves we were never taught to understand

Women’s bodies are often discussed in terms of what they can do, what can go wrong and what needs to be managed. There is much less space for curiosity about how we actually experience living in them. What can our sensations tell us? How do we distinguish a bodily signal from the meaning we attach to it? Why can our relationship with desire change over time? What do we know about our own pleasure? How do social expectations, relationships, health and everyday demands shape our experience?

These are some of the questions I explore through Her Wild Body. I’m particularly interested in the parts of women’s bodily, sensual and sexual experiences that have been overlooked, misunderstood or left unexplored, and what becomes possible when we have the knowledge and permission to investigate them for ourselves.

Begin exploring

I created a free guide to support your exploration in body literacy which helps begin developing a more informed relationship with your own experience.

Explore the Body Literacy guide