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What does "recovery" mean....

11/26/2014

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​What do the words recover and recovery mean to you?
Would you say that you have recovered?
Are you recovering?

Wherever you may be in your healing, please know that we all heal at different times and in different ways. Please do not compare your journey to recovery to anyone else. 

Life is different now isn't it? Recovery takes time and your patience is needed...as is your care towards yourself. Take the time you need to heal yourself at your own pace and get to know and love the "new" you.

If you're waiting...hoping...wishing and praying for a cure so you don't have to do the work...you're wasting precious time. There may never be a "cure". But the one thing you can count on to get you through this is YOU!

Now that your pain/illness is a part of your life...you can learn to manage, prepare for and even cope with what this now means to your life....you CAN do this!

Give thought to what the words recover and recovery mean to you. Are your thoughts realistic for your life moving forward? What can you do to help yourself recover or even when you experience struggles during your recovery? 

Have a plan for how you will manage and plan for the down days too...you will have them. What will you do to care for your needs as you need them to see you through the down days of your recovery? Build your coping skills so you have options to turn to. Explore what makes you feel good and go do those things. It's the feel good things in life that make this pained and hurting life worth it.

When we experience a life-changing diagnosis or illness it's easy to get trapped in all the things we can't do anymore...in all the ways we aren't who we were....but we also fail to see that in many ways, we are still the same as we were before the illness...before the injury.

Take the time you need to recover...take it one minute at a time...five minutes at a time...an hour at a time...one day at a time..but take the time. Know too that each and every step you take will get you there but you have to take the step. 

take good care of you eh?
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Grahame Swift
3/5/2015 03:48:03 pm

This is where I am right now, echoing your thoughts above. For over 10 years I have successfully self-managed my pain with a "standard model" plan, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, medication and stress management as perhaps the main systems. However, aging and pain/stress associated illness is now overwhelming my defenses.
I feel the need to develop and apply a more comprehensive "self-care" plan with a more holistic approach. I have done some research and thinking and have identified some areas that need more internal resources to be allocated. Universal requisites such as sufficient air, food and water, adequate living space and conditions, balance in rest/activity and solitude/social. Timely access to health care including information and education, managing medications and their side effects, advice from medical and allied health, support in client/provider convergence.
I have used systems thinking to better understand myself and my pain, and coming to the realization that everything really is connected to everything else suggests that you or someone you may know could help me, and perhaps others? Does anyone know of, or have such an extension of a pain management plan towards a self-care/life management plan, or would like to create one?

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