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A stranger at her parents' table, an arranged marriage at twenty-one, and a body that would not stay quiet. What happens when the life you were taught to want starts making you ill? And at what point does resentment become information, not poison?
In 1989, Nina Thiara was in her parents' kitchen making chai, while a young man and his whole family sat at the dining table deciding whether she was a suitable match. Six months later they were married. Within five years there were two boys, and her body began to shut down: depression, anxiety, the stomach that had hurt since she was twelve, an exhaustion that sent her back to bed after every school run. Her husband told her it was all in her head.
Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale.
Full transcript at gwenmcarsley.com/skin-and-soul-podcast.
