Your own becomingSettling

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What is your relationship with your body right now?

Why this question

What it did, what it carries, what it no longer does on demand — or, if you didn't birth this child, how it has been changed anyway: the carrying arm, the new tiredness, the heart rate at every cry.

Where it leads

Write to your body as you'd write to a colleague who has done extraordinary work in difficult conditions.

More from Your own becoming

Rather say it than write it?

This question lives in the Save These Days app as a one-minute voice prompt — answerable one-handed, while the baby sleeps on you, kept on your own device.

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