{"id":4783,"date":"2021-10-27T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poriutivit.com\/staging2\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:17:18","slug":"body-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poriutivit.com\/staging2\/en\/blog\/body-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"BODY LITERACY: A Gateway to Self-Knowledge, Health and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>The capacity to trust ourselves and our bodies is not a common or shared goal in western society. In 2005, the term \u201cBody Literacy\u201d was coined by three women: Laura Wershler<\/a>, Geraldine Matus, and Megan Lalonde.\n

\"\"Body Literacy is the foundation for practicing fertility awareness<\/a>. It refers to a core group of skills and competencies (cognitive, emotional, and intuitive) which enable an individual to navigate their well-being on a continuum which marks the experience of health and wellness on one end and illness and dis-ease on the other.<\/p>\n

Body literacy fuses the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual into a united whole. Health knowledge is multi-layered. It is external, objective and scientific and it is also internal, subjective and personal. When we integrate these aspects into a working whole, we gain new freedom and perspective for understanding how we create health and wellness in everyday life and choose the personal tools and resources for achieving health and healing in our lives.<\/p>\n

What is Body Literacy?<\/h2>\n

To my understanding, the concept can be translated into many levels of meaning:<\/p>\n