NO HOLDING BACK
Her World Singapore|November 2023
Marylyn Tan, author of the award-winning poetry volume, Gaze Back, and the first female winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (Poetry) in 2020, muses about pleasure and pain in the healing process.
NO HOLDING BACK

When I was first diagnosed with scoliosis, the image was seared into my retinas. The stark, back-lit X-ray transparencies in my chiropractor’s office showed my spine dramatically double-curved, the obvious cause of the pain that shot through my pelvis and back every time I tried to stand or walk.

A week ago, I had attended a somatic therapy session, where my therapist, a mild-mannered woman who spoke with quiet conviction, said I might feel some pain in my body over the next few days as psychological conflicts in my life resurfaced.

I imagined a pain that came and went – and that was easily dismissed – but the discomfort in my lower back began as a dull throb (almost a muscle sprain), which then flared exponentially into agony. I could not sleep because of it, lying flat on the floor at 2am in an attempt to soothe what I still thought was a strained muscle.

I ended up at the chiropractor’s, something everyone warned me about. Did I really want to entrust my healing to a practice originating with a message from a ghost?

When I told a dear friend that I had scoliosis, her immediate response was, “Because you’re always bending over backwards for other people?”

I said, “Probably” – a non-response, because as much as I had ignored my own unhappiness over the past few years, I thought pretending that this development was inconsequential would make it pass from me.

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