There is a difference between having a body and actually living in it. So many of us experience our bodies from the outside. We look at them, judge them, compare them, hide parts of them and make promises about how much more confidently we will live once something changes. Once we lose the weight. Once we feel attractive. Once we're fitter, younger, healthier, more confident or more comfortable with who we are.

Mulberry Coral isn't particularly interested in waiting. It wants you to live now.

Have the sex. Wear the thing. Dance badly. Get sweaty. Be loud. Be soft. Feel desire. Enjoy pleasure. Take up space. Let yourself be touched. Let yourself be seen. Allow your body to be messy, sensual, imperfect and human.

This isn't about convincing yourself that every part of you is beautiful. It's about recognising that you don't have to love every part of yourself before you're allowed to belong to yourself.

Mulberry Coral Essence has a strong connection with the base chakra, working with our sense of safety within the physical body and our right to be here, embodied as ourselves. It encourages a deeper sense of belonging within your own skin, particularly where shame, judgement or insecurity has caused you to disconnect from your physical or sexual self.

There may be parts of you that you've spent years trying to hide. The stomach you cover. The ageing body you struggle to recognise. The sexuality you've kept contained. The laugh that's too loud. The desire to be wanted. The part of you that's awkward, wild, soft, sexual or completely unpolished.

Mulberry doesn't ask you to fix those parts before reclaiming them. It wants the messy version of you too. Because your body was never meant to be something you spent your whole life looking at. It was meant to be the place from which you lived.

Stop making the future version of yourself the only one who gets to have all the fun. This body. This version. This life. Live it.