As sleeplessness accumulated, I looked at the photos and remembered what I knew to be true: I can be tender and strong, I can be fierce and fragile, I can be empty and full.
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As a psychologist, most of my academic research has focused on women’s relationships with their bodies, their embodiment and how women experience this across their life. I have asked women at various stages and shapes of life, of body, including postpartum, to tell me their stories.
I knew I wanted images of my body in its changing glory to remind myself exactly of how I felt, of who I had become and was becoming. I felt tender and strong, fierce and fragile, empty and full, capable of any wild thing nature does and at once incapable of anything more than the most minute act of care. I did not want to lose any detail of it.
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