PATIENCE, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND INDEPENDENCE
It is certainly no mystery why pain prevents us from achieving our goals. When it hurts physically to move, to focus and sustain our attention, to communicate empathically and respectfully with others, it is very hard to be effective. All we want to do is retreat, allow our bodies to relax and heal, to nurture them and eliminate all the demands on us. Working in pain is exhausting; it requires an enormous amount of our energy to direct our attention toward our work and to resist the demands for attention from the injured location.
When your clients are dealing with this sort of challenge, the kind of courage that they need will often be the courage to be patient. In these times when irrationally ...
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