Body Disconnection
A body that switches off to avoid discomfort often ends up switching off to comfort too.
Body, Self-Image & Intimacy
Feeling disconnected from your body, disliking what you see in the mirror, comparing yourself, finding touch or closeness hard. These sheets explain how your relationship with your body and with intimacy is shaped, and offer small, gentle steps to make it easier. Beach towns, social media and new partners in new places can bring all of this to the surface.
Body Image Dissatisfaction
The body you judge and the body other people see are often two different things.
Blocked Intimacy
Avoiding the vulnerability of intimacy often also avoids the connection it was trying to protect.
Difficulty With Touch and Physical Affection
The body can tense up at touch even when the mind really wants closeness – the two don’t always move at the same pace.
Body Shame
Body shame often isn’t really about the body – it’s an old belief about not being worthy that got attached to it.
Avoiding Your Own Reflection
Avoiding the mirror doesn’t solve body distress – it often leaves the distorted inner image unchallenged.
Struggling to Feel Physical Pleasure
A body trained to stay on guard against discomfort often struggles to open up to pleasure, even when it’s really there.
Body Comparison
Comparing bodies rarely gives you accurate information – mostly just a new reason to feel not enough.
Avoiding Sex Because of Body Insecurity
Avoiding intimacy because of body insecurity often isn’t about desire – it’s fear of how your body will be seen.
Struggling to Set Physical Boundaries
A physical boundary that’s never stated can’t really be respected – but the discomfort of tolerating it builds up anyway.
Recognise yourself here?
You don’t have to work it out alone.