There are two ways to join.

In person, it’s deliberately cosy: bring your book and something small to share — food, nibbles or a drink — and settle around the table for conversation, learning and exploration. The gatherings are donation-based and take place approximately fortnightly, journeying through the book over around three months.

Online, the experience becomes a little more immersive. Alongside the book there’ll be embodied practices, reflection, Reiki, sharing and smaller breakout conversations — creating some of the intimacy and human connection of sitting together in a room. The online journey begins later and runs monthly, so it can also offer a way to catch up if life means missing an in-person gathering. There is a small ticket cost for the online sessions.

You don’t need to race through the chapters. You don’t need to arrive having understood everything. And you certainly don’t need to have all the answers.

Just bring the book, your questions and your body.

Read. Explore. Practice. Share. Come back.

Because sometimes the part that changes us isn’t simply what we read.

It’s what happens when we finally make the time to explore it together..

Come for the book. Stay for the conversation.

There are some books we buy because something in them feels important. We underline a few pages, promise ourselves we’ll come back to them…and then life gets in the way.

The Women’s Health Book Club, created and hosted by Dionne Roberts, is a little different. It’s not really about getting to the end of a book. It’s about giving ourselves the time to explore what that book might open up — in conversation, in practice and in our own bodies.

The first book is Amy Stein’s Heal Pelvic Pain, chosen because it brings together practical approaches to pelvic health, including movement, relaxation, self-care and understanding the pelvic floor. But rather than simply reading from beginning to end, Dionne will help the group gather the useful pieces together and turn them into something women can actually explore and experience.

Because women are very good at putting themselves somewhere further down the list.

Sometimes it’s quicker to take the tablet, reach for the incontinence pad, or simply decide that a change in our body must be part of getting older. This isn’t about judging any of those choices, or promising that everything can be “fixed”. It’s about having the space to become curious again: What is happening in my body? What might it need? And what haven’t I explored yet?