Well first let me clarify, that aforementioned wall was actually a car, and I didn’t hit it, it hit me, and hard. In my previous life (my life is now divided into two parts: before the accident, and after the accident), I was a Marketing Manager by day working 50+ hours a week, and a …
From hitting the metaphorical wall to finding purposeRead More
Have you noticed that the term Empowerment is talked about a lot these days? Oftentimes it is in the context of a person feeling empowered by an experience, for example, “I heard this person speak, and I feel so empowered”. The word Empowerment is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “authority or power given to …
When thrown unexpectedly into injury and recovery, there is a time of trial and error with finding what works and what doesn’t to get you back on your feet again. Often this is a very frustrating time, and it can be difficult to figure out how to move again, and most importantly how to move …
Last year, 10 years after my accident, marked the point in my recovery where I have been out of pain longer than I was in pain. It seems silly, but that was a very big deal for me. In my mind, it felt like I could start over from zero. Not like it never happened, …
As we move through life, we rarely think of the hundreds of coordinated movements that our body makes each day, let alone how they feel. When a person is in pain, however, every movement can bring on a number of feelings, both emotional and physical. When pain persists over a long period, the mere thought …
The Fear Factor: The Anticipation of Pain in MovementRead More
I have to say the hardest part of recovery from injury is having patience with the process, especially when it is long and painful. While I was recovering for over 5 years from a serious car accident, every setback seemed to take me right back to day one, the day my life changed forever. What …
