The Literary Obsessive

The Literary Obsessive

19th Feb

The Obsessive Diary

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Eleanor Anstruther
Feb 19, 2025
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I went to the sports physio to recover from the emotional stabbing of last week, a pain in my side as if a knife had gone in, my ribs out, my cage twisted. It didn’t hurt anymore but I knew that wasn’t a good sign, more likely the misalignment had cemented itself, sunk into a normalised state from which some other pain would appear down the line. So I went and she worked her magic, because magic it is, the way she speaks to my form, a conversation in which I let my body do the talking.

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