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The Body Is a Doorway A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

Sophie Strand

In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores—with searing insight and honesty—the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves. At age...

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Strand's book on EhlersDanlos Syndrome explores the experience of living with a connectivetissue disorder, describing the sensation of feeling detached from one's own body.

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There's a book about EDS, about EhlersDanlos Syndrome, my sort of kind of overriding diagnosis, which is called The Body is a Doorway by Sophie Strand.

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Strand's book on EhlersDanlos Syndrome explores the experience of living with a connectivetissue disorder, describing the sensation of feeling detached from one's own body.

"

There's a book about EDS, about EhlersDanlos Syndrome, my sort of kind of overriding diagnosis, which is called The Body is a Doorway by Sophie Strand.

She said, I've always felt like I was a balloon floating above my body, and I had said that countless times and had no idea that anybody else in the world experienced that.

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