June 08, 2003
practice
by sabater
I twisted my left foot last week will playing mommy monster in the playground. That led to my the patella on my right knee to act up. And all along I have been blessed with the psiatica that came one day during my pregnancy with Evan and just never left.
So all week long I avoided sitting in front of the computer, just spending as little time as possible answering to e-mail. I've been taking AND using Arnica for the aches and pains and it somehow makes me very sleepy. I guess pain is another one of those things that keeps me awake at nigth during my twilight writing.
Outside of the fact that I am feeling really old these days --my birthday is in a couple of days-- all these aches and pains are really pointing to my life 'before' and 'after' kids.
In my 'life before kids' there was no sciatica. Running was not an issue. I had no known food sensitivities. I wrote every day for a living for 7 years straight. I was a repository of all the current trends in critical theory. I could read a 300 page long book in 2 days. I worked out 5 days a week.
In life after kids, every single muscle in my body hurts. There are whole classes of foods I cannot eat anymore. It is quite an achievement if I can finish a book within a month's time --it is quite outstanding if I can do so in a within a week. The height of critical theory these days is Dr Seuss and if I can touch my toes during a forward bend, I actually celebrate it.
It's as if I have been forced to live inside somebody else's body and I have no idea how I got here. The sad part is that I barely remember how it was before --I am just getting over the physical trauma of child birth.
I guess I have to practice not just being but using this new body ...
Posted by Liza in Body, Health, Homeopathy, Life, Parenting
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