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This is My Body

A story of sickness and health

This is My Body

A story of sickness and health

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Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781848259485
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 30/09/2017
Width: 13.5 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

This is My Body is a compelling and unforgettably powerful story of trauma, illness, recovery and transformation, told with honesty, courage and resilient good humour. 

Jennie Hogan, an Anglican priest, has a history of brain injury and illness going back to childhood. In this gripping memoir, memories of the athletic, competitive and fun-loving schoolgirl jostle alongside accounts of invasive emergency medical treatments and the long processes of recovery.

She reflects on what it means to live with uncertainty, to become reconciled with a new identity, and how trust and hope can be regained as a vocation flowers despite the odds. 

Jennie draws on her experience and her beliefs to pose challenging questions about our relationships with our bodies in an age that is obsessed with body image and physical perfection.

She explores the nature of faith in times of crisis, the reality of pain and disability, and what it means to be human and vulnerable, yet made in the image of God.

Jennie Hogan

Jennie Hogan is a University Chaplain at Goodenough College in London, and Assistant Priest at St George’s Bloomsbury.

'This book bears witness to both the beauty and brutality of living... Jennie Hogan writes unsparingly about her body, which she has had to get to know in ways she can never have wanted, but has somehow gratefully received.' -- Lucy Winkett 'Without an atom of self-pity, Jennie Hogan intersperses her descent into semi-blindness and chronic epilepsy with profound theological reflection on the nature of suffering... Hogan has a great gift for writing... (she) knows the scars she bears are open windows, shining light on her humanity.' -- Church Times

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