Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan

It's me using my story in order to highlight some of the challenges that exist in society around poverty, access to education, trauma.

And similarly with Hungary, it's not...

There are new things about my life that people won't know, but it's a reframing of my story to look at how my experiences with my dad, with my mom, with men, with social media, with work, influenced how I felt about myself as a woman in my own body.

And so it's not a follow-up.

It's not a next step to pour at all.

It's actually a reframing of some things you might already know.

Like people who've read it say it feels familiar.

It feels familiar because it's my voice and my story, but there's definitely new things in there.

But it's all about how the world impacted how I felt about myself in my own body.

Yeah, so I start the book off where I'm talking about just me.

So it's themed.

The book is themed.

It's not necessarily chronological, but the first influence on my own body was how I saw my body.

And as a little girl, before I had any idea about...

you know abuse or sex or you know I loved my body I didn't even actually realize I had a body or that I was a girl I just loved my body I was brilliant at sport I used to love running free on my brother's bike playing sports and I cartwheeled with no shame showed my knickers and I suppose this that particular part of my story is trying to exemplify how oftentimes we commodify educate um

exercise and we commodify food and we make exercise and food about losing weight or shrinking our body or we don't realize that our body is a source of freedom and like i remember my body just being something that i felt really safe in i'm really happy about and i used to feel the breath and the the world and really enjoy it and i lost that through the experiences that i had but i think we all lose that

Right.

A lot of women, so if we go out into just the world, a lot of women are measured on what they look like.

And as a little girl, I was.

So like I had this great experience in my body where I was totally free.