Abstract:
At 22, Diane felt she was on top of the world. She had a happy childhood, tremendous success in college, and was on her way to law school. Then she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This is the story of Diane’s transformation as a result of that diagnosis. As she learned to live with a progressive illness, she was also discovering her sexuality along with the choreography of intimate relationships. She stumbled her way -–literally and figuratively – through the working world as a neophyte lawyer, exhaustively explored conventional Western and complementary medical routes, assumed the crazy combination role of both boss and client to an unstable stable of nurse’s aides, and found herself drawn almost magnetically to an entirely new career as well as a spiritual search that would change her for the rest of her life. BODILY WISDOM is a deeply personal but universally human story about choosing to grow with, rather than be broken down by, the realities of our lives.