What is body literacy?
Body literacy is understanding your body, knowing what makes it tick, what impacts it the most, and what your body is doing on a deeper level and how that intertwines with your every day.
Zero body literacy is women not knowing when they ovulate, not knowing the phases of their cycle, not knowing how to change their lifestyle to maximize their potential based on where they are in their cycle, not knowing what it means to work with a cycle instead of against it, not tracking their period, not knowing what basal temp is.
Someone with body literacy:
Charts their cycles
Knows when they ovulate
Knows what makes their period heavier/PMS worse
Knows how to interpret BBT and ovulation
Knows the phases of their cycle
Knows what impacts the phases of their lifestyle
Knows how to work with stress, nutrition, training, work, and their cycle
Author
Olivia Orchowski
Olivia Orchowski is the founder and CEO of Kyri, a women’s health tech company building smarter tools to track and understand the menstrual cycle; without fluff, guesswork, or subscriptions. With a background in physiology and a passion for evidence-based education, Olivia writes to bridge the gap between complex science and the everyday realities of being in a female body. Whether it’s hormones, sleep, fertility, or cycle-aware training, her blog posts reflect Kyri’s mission: to make biological literacy part of daily life; not a mystery to decode once something goes wrong. When she’s not writing or building Kyri, you’ll find her walking her dogs, raising her daughter, reading, or deep-diving through the latest in female health research.