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When couples have different spiritual responses to surviving serious illness

My husband survived cancer and we're both grateful but we're experiencing his changed body so differently — he feels spiritually transformed and wants to honor his scars, I feel traumatized by what his body went through and need normal, and we can't find each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trauma and transformation are both present in the aftermath of illness, but when partners experience them differently, healing becomes lonely.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body as spiritual vessel across traditions?”

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