You're not hungry until you're ravenous. You're not tired until you're completely depleted. If that sounds familiar, your body has probably been sending you messages for a long time and you've been overriding them.

In this week's Sunday's Best Bits, Cassie revisits her conversation with Melissa Lever from Body Intuition Collective. Melissa is a physiotherapist with 20 years of experience, a Pilates instructor, clinic owner and mum of three, and her work brings together physiotherapy and interoception, the sense that tells you what's actually happening inside your body.

Listen to the full conversation

This episode looks at what happens when women spend years putting their own signals last. Why hormonal transitions like puberty, pregnancy, postpartum and perimenopause make those signals harder to read. Why the push through that worked in your twenties and thirties stops working. And what it actually costs when you keep going anyway.

Melissa also shares three simple questions you can ask yourself in under two minutes to start rebuilding that connection, no meditation practice required.

In this episode:

Why hormones and interoception are so closely linked, and what changes through perimenopause

Why louder body signals don't mean your body is failing

How motherhood shifts your awareness away from yourself and onto everyone else

What happens when you teach your brain you'll only listen at the extreme

Why eating in the first hour of waking is less about the meal and more about the message

The real cost of pushing through a deadline, and whether you can rebuild trust afterwards

Connect with Melissa Lever, Body Intuition Collective

Cassie Davenport is a degree-qualified naturopath and nutritionist, co-creating achievable and sustainable solutions using evidence-based research combined with traditional herbal medicine. She believes small changes create big impact.

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