Suffolk Soul Coach

Body literacy should be compulsory in schools.

And I don’t mean simply learning the biology of a menstrual cycle.

I mean understanding what’s happening in your own body.

Knowing what’s normal for you.

Understanding that hormones can affect far more than whether or not you bleed.

Knowing how to recognise patterns and changes.

Knowing when something might be worth asking for help with.

Imagine reaching adulthood already knowing how to notice what your body is telling you — instead of having to figure it out when something starts going wrong.

And this isn’t about blaming schools or teachers.

There’s an enormous amount competing for space in the curriculum already.

It’s about asking whether understanding the body you’ll live in for your entire life deserves more of that space.

I think it does.

What do you think?

And if you could make ONE health topic compulsory in schools, what would you choose?

I didn’t start understanding my cycle because someone sat me down and taught me how.

I learnt because I needed to.

First, because of endometriosis.

Then because I was trying to get pregnant.

And later, through my training in menstrual health, I realised just how much more there was to understand.

That still bothers me.

Because why should we have to wait until we’re in pain, trying to conceive, struggling with symptoms or reaching perimenopause before we start learning about the body we’ve been living in all along?

You don’t need to become an expert in menstrual health.

But you deserve to understand your cycle.

What’s normal for you.

What patterns you can look for.

What your body might be communicating.

And how to start making sense of it all.

That’s exactly why I created my Know Your Cycle Self-Study Workshop.

You’ll get the workshop replay + workbook, so you can work through it in your own time and start understanding your cycle rather than simply recording when your period arrives.

It’s £15.

If you’re ready to know your cycle a little better, you can get yours through the link in my bio.

We’re taught to notice when our phone needs attention.

Low battery.
Storage full.
Something running slower than usual.
An update needed.

But when it comes to our bodies?

So many of us were never taught what to notice.

What’s normal for you?

What changes across your cycle?

What patterns keep appearing?

What might be worth asking someone about?

And then we wonder why we reach our 30s, 40s or beyond saying:

“Why did nobody tell me this?”

Body literacy shouldn’t be specialist knowledge.

Understanding your own body should be normal.

And you don’t need to know everything.

You just need to start paying attention to what your body is telling you.

So tell me…

What’s one thing about your body you wish you’d been taught years ago?

Women are told they’re asking for too much all the time.

Too much support.

Too much understanding.

Too much rest.

Too much consideration.

Too much from healthcare.

Too much from the people around them.

But what if the problem isn’t that we’re asking for too much?

What if we’ve just spent far too long accepting too little?

Being listened to.

Being believed.

Having information about our own bodies.

Having our needs matter too.

I don’t think that’s asking for too much.

I think it’s asking for what we deserved all along.

Agree, disagree… or somewhere in the middle? Tell me why.

Maybe you’re eating.

Maybe you’re getting enough sleep.

Maybe you’re even managing to squeeze in some exercise.

But there’s a difference between looking after yourself and constantly trying to keep yourself functioning well enough to keep looking after everybody else.

And that difference matters.

Because when you’ve spent a long time putting yourself at the bottom of the list, it can be really hard to even work out what you need anymore.

That’s part of what we do in 1:1 coaching.

We slow things down.

We look at what’s actually happening in your life and your body.

We notice the patterns.

We work out what you need — not what Instagram, a generic checklist or somebody else says you should need.

And then we find realistic ways to start putting some of that back in.

You don’t have to wait until you’ve dropped every ball before you ask for support.

If you watched this reel and thought “Oh. That’s me.”

Send me COACHING in a DM and we can have a chat about what support might look like for you.