It’s Only A Body
06 Jul 2010 ~ Categories: blog • body • wellness
I recently found out some very heavy news. A dear friend of mine tested positive with such a high probability to get breast and uterine cancer (she has the gene that causes both) that she is having all her female parts removed. You heard me right. This year, my friend’s breasts and uterus will be removed. She is still very young and very beautiful. And post-surgery, she will still be very young and very beautiful but it won’t be the same. Her body will never be the same.
When she tearfully told me what she had to have done, we both cried. I love her so much. She is scared, to say the least, scared of the risks and scared of the loss and scared of it not being the same, the familiar, and the body she’s called home and grown attached to for 30-some years.
So we talked about it. She told me that she knows her lesson now is to learn that she is not her body and her love of self as well as others love of her is not about her beautiful body, it’s about something so much more vast that it cannot be contained in a skin-suit. I have never seen my friend so brave and so vulnerable and so beautiful as that night when she unveiled this news to me.
Exposed, disoriented from shock and deeply frightened, my friend is embarking on the biggest lesson she’s had in this lifetime about body identification. Only a powerful woman like she could see through this trauma to find her lesson in it, already, and what a blessing and inspiration that is.
Bless her,
Amy
06 Jul 2010
Alex
Wow, a true being of spirit and strength. I send light your friend, to her beautiful heart which is the source of love and her bravery. All my prayers and blessings. xo