Letter to My Body* (part 2)

Sarah Graham http://www.sarahgrahamsolutions.com, a successful therapist and addictions counsellor, explores her at times turbulent relationship with her body. From the age of eight Sarah was given ongoing medical treatment but she only learned the real nature of her diagnosis at the age of twenty-five when a gynaecologist finally revealed the truth: that she has XY chromosomes and is an intersex woman.

Doctors had even shielded her parents from the truth about her "disorder of sexual development".

The shock of the revelation led Sarah on a path of depression and addiction which nearly killed her. However she has gradually rebuilt her health and her self esteem. In this essay she makes peace with her body and challenges homophobia in religion and our society's polarised expectations of gender.

*'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays- broadcast on BBC Radio 3- in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies.

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[YourEyesDeceiveYou]

Thank-you for sharing this intimate and deeply moving letter to your body with the rest of us. I'm too emotional to give you the credit you deserve. But know this: you are truly awesome!