What the Body Knows
Essays
Long reads on touch, intimacy and what the body is saying. Written by Juliette Karaman.
What the Body Knows
Long reads on touch, intimacy and what the body is saying. Written by Juliette Karaman.
The pattern, laid out plainly, in the order it happened.
Read the essay → For Both · 28 March 2026Her nervous system is not confused. It is tracking. Here is what it has been reading.
Read the essay → For Both · 30 March 2026He wants to show up. She wants to be heard. The answer lives inside the worst week of my life.
Read the essay → For Both · 3 April 2026On sensation, power, and what happens when the practitioner stops asking the right question.
Read the essay → For Her · 8 April 2026What becomes possible when the body finally believes it will not be punished for opening.
Read the essay → For Both · 9 April 2026On witnessing fear you cannot fix, from thousands of miles away.
Read the essay → For Both · 13 April 2026On allegiance, the internet, and what the body refuses to perform.
Read the essay → For Both · 23 April 2026One through-line, from a SENCO's classroom to now. What the SENCO and the somatic specialist have in common.
Read the essay → For Both · 7 May 2026My children carry Muslim names and European faces. The world has opinions about both.
Read the essay → For Men · 6 July 2026It is not about politics. Nearly one in three of them is remembering something the news just told them does not count.
Read the essay → For Men · 5 July 2026It is not attraction. It is the absence of stakes. Here is what her body is actually doing, and what changes it.
Read the essay → For Men · 8 July 2026The conversation most men freeze in front of. Here is what is actually happening in her body, and yours, and what works.
Read the essay → For Women · 30 June 2026You can decide to leave with your whole mind, and your body will still roll over at 3am looking for someone who is not there. That is not weakness. It is data.
Read the essay → Couples · 24 June 2026Two dysregulated nervous systems in the same room cannot do the work. Here is what happens when you stop trying.
Read the essay → For Women · 18 June 2026It took me thirty years to go from the seven-year-old who was told to stay quiet to the woman who made an entire train carriage turn around.
Read the essay → For Women · 16 June 2026The shame we carry in our flesh is rarely ours. It was given to us. The body just kept it.
Read the essay → For Women · 14 June 2026Somewhere along the way we decided his finish was the point and ours was a nice-to-have. I would like a word about that.
Read the essay → For Women · 7 June 2026It went quiet because you were sold spontaneity and never given a structure your body could trust.
Read the essay → For Women · 31 May 2026The hormones didn't lie. The man did.
Read the essay → How She Works · 17 May 2026The same presence that holds someone at the threshold of death is the presence required in a session room. In a bedroom. In a moment when someone says stay.
Read the essay → For Men · 3 May 2026Three things her body is doing right now that you have probably missed.
Read the essay → Couples · 30 April 2026What felt like love was recognition.
Read the essay → For Men · 28 April 2026Close to six thousand of you showed up in two months. Here is why.
Read the essay → For Men · 26 April 2026What was actually happening in that moment, and what to do instead.
Read the essay → How She Works · 5 April 2026What you inherited from the people before you, and how the body carries what the mind was never told.
Read the essay → For Her · 12 July 2026Something in the tissue moves before the mind gives permission. This is what I am tracking when my hands are barely touching you.
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