Dooley Noted: 8/10/15
All of my patients have one thing in common:
They’ve usually seen and tried “everything else” before coming to see me.
Now, if I were some magician, some magic bullet therapist, then they’d come see me first.
But I’m simply the person who finds out what is hard for them to do – then encourages them to do it with efficiency.
Why have they not done this first?
Because they were under the impression that it would be difficult to help themselves.
But I’ve been a clinician – and a patient – long enough to know that self-efficiency is not the harder life.
To face difficulty head-on is absolutely the easier life.
It is harder to sit on the couch than to see towards your potential.
It is harder to watch your body fall apart and blame the aging process.
It is harder to walk away from a wall, just to run towards it again with no plan of action.
It is easier to find ways to plow through the wall.
It’s easier to watch your work improve your mobility, stability, and strength, despite your age and your injuries.
Yes, it takes work, time, and commitment.
But it will absolutely make your life easier to live.
Your pain and discomfort will lessen.
You will look at yourself with an easy comfort in the mirror.
Hard work creates an easier life to live, in the long run.
And life is a long run for most of us.
I hope you create an easier life by attacking your goals with tenacity.
I hope you never let walls hinder you and find ways to chisel right through them.
I hope you stop seeing hard work as a harder life.
As always, it’s your call.
– Dr. Kathy Dooley
