
Physical Therapist: Okay, now try to do it without tilting your pelvis.
Me: What?
Physical Therapist: See how you’re tilting your pelvis, when you lift your leg like that?
Me:……..
Physical Therapist: Watch me do it. See how I’m tilting my pelvis?
Me:…..Yes?
Physical Therapist: Okay, so that’s what you’re doing. So try not to do that.
Me:………..
Physical Therapist: Does that not make sense?
Me:…….I actually wasn’t fully aware that I had a pelvis. Or a body.
Physical Therapist: ….Hmmm.
Me: Yeah, I kind of just feel like I’m a liquid vat of worry and thought that is somehow able to open doors and move from one room into the other.
Physical Therapist: Yeah, hmm. Maybe we should back up?
Me:….Yes.
Physical Therapist: Okay, so. You have a body.
Me: ….Interesting…
Physical Therapist: You live inside of it.
Me: ….Go on…..
Physical Therapist: You can control it, you can injure it, it can heal, there are both good ways and bad ways to use it.
Me: WHAT
PHYSICAL THERAPIST: I KNOW