No one plans to get hurt when they wake up in the morning. It just happens. Sometimes we have an amazing story to tell of how it happened and sometimes it can be as simple as stepping off the curb to cross the street. In either case, this injury and the resulting pain starts with an experience.
Read MoreAs we acknowledge ourselves to have a past, present, and future, so too should we acknowledge that pain has one as well. If we take the time to get to know it, where it was born, how it has grown, why it exists, we will begin to form a sense of understanding and from that platform compassion and empathy.
Read MoreBy definition a labyrinth is “a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.” (Oxford) I often use this analogy with my patients during their initial evaluation. They are already in their own labyrinth. At SHW we consider it our job to go in and find them, to recalibrate, and to then figure out how to get them back out. Some of it is simply reversing direction and some of it is finding new pathways.
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