Our Breakthrough Lives Where We Don’t Want To Look
We're not stuck because we don't know the answer. We're stuck because the answer is hard.
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I can tell when the door closes. Sometimes it’s slammed in my face, other times it’s a gentle closing, but either way it’s a done deal.
They’re not interested.
At that moment there’s nothing I can say that will help them walk through that door.
For the first ten years I wasn’t as tuned in to the barrier going up but, with two more decades of experience in private practice, now I see it instantly. It’s the moment my patient tunes me out. It tends to happen when I suggest they do something they think will be hard – like move their body when they are sore or make a change to their diet that will reduce inflammation and, therefore, their joint pain.
The hard truth is that, more often than we’d like, feeling good requires us to first do something that doesn’t feel great in the moment. And even when we’re actively seeking help to feel better, we often still resist getting uncomfortable.