Reading & Resources
Vera is committed to helping women remember their power and giving them all the tools to live a healthy life that is true to themselves.
The following books and resources may help you on your journey, inspire you and help you to remember that you are part of a growing movement of women who want to connect to themselves so that they can feel true connection to the world and to people around them.
These portals will help you to learn more about yourself, give you practical tools to help optimise your experience as a woman and learn how to gain mastery in this work of art that is your body.
Books
Healing Pelvic Pain — Dr Peta Wright
The Bright Girl Guide: Use Your Period to Your Advantage — Demi Spaccavento
Period Queen — Lucy Peach
Women who Run with the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Pussy, A Reclamation — Regena Thomashauer
Cassandra Speaks — Elizabeth Lesser
How to be a Woman & More than a Woman — Caitlin Moran
Permission — Lauren White
Untamed — Glennon Doyle
The Period Repair Manual & The Hormone Repair Manual — Lara Briden
The Fifth Vital Sign — Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
In the Flo — Alisa Vitti
Come as you Are — Emily Nagowski
Burnout — Emily and Amelia Nagowski
Hormone Intelligence — Dr Aviva Romm
No Period. Now What? — Lisa Sanfilippo Waddell, Nicola J. Rinaldi and Stephanie Buckler
It Starts with the Egg — Rebecca Fett
The Body Keeps the Score —Bessel van der Kolk
Websites
Podcasts
The Aging Project — Perimenopause & Menopause with Dr Peta Wright
The Frae Podcast — The Dr Is In!!👩🏼⚕️Dr Peta Wright Talks Cycles, Symptoms, PMS & PMDD
The Frae Podcast — The Pill, Freezing Eggs, Contraception and Normal Vulvas With Dr Peta Wright ❤️👏🏼
The Secrets Women Keep - The secrets a gynaecologist wish you knew about your body — with Lauren White & Dr Peta Wright
The Shift Podcast — Katherine Maslen
Being an optimised woman is not about living a pain-free life — but about understanding yourself and learning tools so that pain does not stop you living the life you desire and become fully accepting of yourself in the process.
These resources are favourites of some of our Vera team and helped us along our path and might just help you too.