When the Body Changes the Conversation
Life After Performance, Without Diminishing Excellence
When the Body Changes the Conversation
There is a particular kind of shock that arrives when the body, which once provided an athlete with unquestioned certainty about who they are and how they move through the world, begins to respond differently, and grief surfaces alongside that change, often before there are words for it.
What has been dependable for so long does not fail so much as it shifts its language, creating a sense of separation, not because the body has gone silent, but because the conversation that once organized meaning, rhythm, and self-trust has changed, without permission.
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