Muscle Pain

Your muscles are your locomotor system. Literally: the thing that sets you in motion. Without them you cannot take a step, open a door, give an embrace, or hold a pen. Muscles are the translator between intention and action — between what you want and what you do. When they hurt, something between wanting and doing has gone out of alignment.

The medical view usually finds a quick explanation: overexertion, poor posture, micro-injuries, mineral deficiency, tension, inflammation. All of that is true. And yet it only tells the surface of the story. Because why has this one muscle been tense for months? Why does your neck hurt every Monday, your back always before decisions, your whole body after conversations in which you could not say anything?