The Three Things That Helped Me Survive

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"I'd already written Running Like a Girl which was about being a terrible runner but embracing it anyway. Then I wrote Lee Pin which was going to sort of in some ways replicate running like a girl and instead of doing lots of marathons I was going to do lots of long swims," she says. "And then when I thought I had it made my son was born and everything was looking great. And it turned out that actually three things happened to me in quite close succession which I don't think I could have survived even though having three quite intense things happening so quickly was awful."

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to journalist and writer Alexandra Heminsley, author of Some Body to Love. After infertility treatment, a challenging pregnancy and a sexual assault, Alex found her relationship drifting apart for reasons she couldn’t fully understand. But when her partner finally disclosed that they wanted to transition to being a woman, Alex had to come to terms with something she never expected: being part of a LBTQIA+ family. In this conversation, she explores her compassionate response to her former partner’s needs, how it has changed her viewpoint on life, and how life can be remade in the face of the unexpected.

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