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?
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Helping you feel calmer, clearer & more in control through compassionate, realistic support.
24/08/2026
You don’t need a complicated spreadsheet, five different apps or a qualification in hormones to start understanding your cycle.
Start small.
Record the first day of your period.
Then start noticing.
Your energy.
Your mood.
Your sleep.
Your symptoms.
And eventually, instead of looking at every difficult day as an isolated problem, you can start asking:
“What keeps happening?”
That’s where body literacy begins.
Not with knowing everything.
With noticing your patterns.
If you want to go further, my Know Your Cycle Self-Study Workshop takes you through how your cycle works and helps you start making sense of your own.
You get the workshop replay + workbook to work through in your own time.
It’s £15 and available through the link in my bio.
Start noticing patterns, not problems. 💛
23/08/2026
Little Miss Thought She Was Stressed.
And sometimes she was.
But sometimes…
She was exhausted.
Overwhelmed.
Running on empty.
Her hormones were changing.
She hadn’t eaten properly all day.
She hadn’t slept well for weeks.
And she’d forgotten what feeling like herself even felt like.
It’s very easy to put everything into one box labelled:
“I’m just stressed.”
Sometimes that’s exactly what’s happening.
But sometimes it’s worth getting curious about what else might be contributing.
Sleep.
Food.
Your cycle.
Hormonal changes.
The sheer amount you’re carrying.
Your body isn’t random.
It’s communicating.
What have you blamed on “just stress” that makes a little more sense now?
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.
19/08/2026
There’s a strange thing that happens when nobody talks about something.
We all start assuming we’re the only one experiencing it.
The only one waking up at 3am.
The only one whose mood suddenly feels completely unpredictable.
The only one forgetting words they’ve known for years.
The only one wondering, “What the hell is happening to me?”
But I hear versions of these stories all the time.
Everyone’s experience is different, but one thing comes up again and again:
We simply weren’t given enough information about our own bodies.
So when things start changing, we don’t always recognise what’s happening.
And if nobody else is talking about it either?
It’s very easy to assume it must just be you.
It isn’t.
The more we talk, the more we learn.
And the more we realise how many of us have been quietly wondering exactly the same thing.
Save this for the next time your brain tries to convince you that you’re the only one.
Some things deserve WAY more celebration than we give them.
Booking the appointment.
Saying no.
Eating the bloody lunch.
Asking for help.
Resting.
Listening to your body instead of automatically pushing through what it’s telling you.
None of those things should feel revolutionary.
But when you’ve spent years putting yourself somewhere near the bottom of the list?
Sometimes they really do.
So today, Cheerleader Claire is celebrating the little things that are actually pretty bloody big.
**Who deserves a cheer this week? Tag them below. **
There are some sentences I hear again and again.
“I don’t feel like myself.”
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”
“I should be coping better than this.”
Different people. Different lives. Different circumstances.
But so often, underneath it all, is the same assumption:
It must be me.
And sometimes, one of the most powerful things you can hear is simply:
You’re not the only one.
You don’t have to have figured out exactly what’s going on before you’re allowed to talk about it, ask questions or look for support.
So I’m curious…
What’s the sentence you’ve had on repeat lately?
16/08/2026
If I could go back and teach my younger self everything I know now about my body, I honestly wouldn’t know where to start.
There are SO many things I wish I’d known sooner.
That painful periods shouldn’t simply be accepted.
That hormones affect far more than whether or not you bleed.
That your cycle can give you useful information about your body.
That perimenopause doesn’t suddenly begin when your periods stop.
That you’re allowed to ask questions when something doesn’t feel right.
We spend a lifetime living in our bodies.
And yet so many of us end up learning about them only when something changes, hurts or stops making sense.
So I want to turn this one over to you.
What’s one thing you wish someone had told you sooner?
Tell me in the comments. You never know who else might need to read your answer today.
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