26/08/2026
Sometimes, without quite realising it, our relationship with our body changes.
We monitor it.
We manage it.
We work around it.
We anticipate what might hurt.
We keep track of symptoms, cycles, energy, food, movement, sleep.
We think about our pelvic floor, our hormones, our scars, our pain, our recovery.
And somewhere along the way, our body can start to feel like a problem to solve rather than a place to inhabit.
This can happen after birth. Through chronic pain. With changes to your menstrual cycle. After illness or injury. During perimenopause. Through periods of anxiety or overwhelm. Or simply after years of putting everyone and everything else first.
You might notice that you spend a lot of time thinking about your body, but very little time feeling at home in it.
And this matters from an occupational perspective.
Because our bodies are not separate from the lives we live.
How we experience our bodies influences how we move through our days, how we engage in our habits and routines, how we inhabit our roles, how we participate in relationships, work, parenting, rest, movement, intimacy and all the other things that make up our lives.
Perhaps building a greater sense of belonging in your own body is part of what makes it possible to show up differently in those things.
Not necessarily by fixing your body or getting back to how it used to be.
But by developing a new relationship with the body you have now - becoming curious about its sensations, needs, limits and messages. And bringing in compassion for what it has brought you through.
Because feeling at home in your body isn’t just about how you feel in your body.
It can change how you are able to live your life through it.
