Landing in my body

My name is Angela Murphy and I work as a clinical psychologist. I was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago. ‘What about my babies?’ was the first thing I said on hearing from an oncologist that I had a tumour in my left breast as we both stared at an enlarged ultrasound image.

Our children weren’t literally babies but young children and the immediate processing of the doctor’s utterance began an on-going twine-ing of threads of love and fear and seeking control and despair and humility and gratitude and discovery…