Pain meant losing my sense of self-worth, my purpose.Īnd pain was everything in those early years. A future that was dark and scary and uncertain. It meant worrying about the future that suddenly looked so different than the one I had planned for. It meant losing my identity and feeling lost. The pain in my hip meant losing a valued career. By asking only about our pain we are never asked about our suffering, and they’re different. It reverberates through our entire being, our whole life. Pain is not just felt in a body part, after all. The painful bits certainly inform and influence the narrative, but that’s not all there is. That’s about my entire narrative, not just the painful bits. How are you today? What brings you here today? How can I help you? Tell me about your pain. I’ve been asked all sorts of kind and probing questions before, of course. Tell me your story…īut not one healthcare professional ever asked me to tell them my story. Who hear and understand me, who encourage me and celebrate my successes, and who support me and lift me up when I fall. Sharing my story has allowed me to connect with people in meaningful ways, even if only via the interwebs. It has also let me know that I’m not alone. It allows me to explore questions, reflect on what’s happened, and try to make sense of what’s going on with what I have learned and what I have lived.
And it’s been incredibly therapeutic for me. No one asked me to, I just started sharing my experiences.
#Tell your story plus#
As someone who has been telling my story for a good three plus years now on this blog you wouldn’t think it’d have such an effect on me to be asked to tell it.īut I’ve been telling my story unsolicited. It touches something deep within me that I’ve been trying to figure out. Thinking about it ever since Peter O’Sullivan asked me to tell him my story when I was a patient demo during his Cognitive Functional Therapy workshop at the San Diego Pain Summit.Īnd every time I think about it, I get teary. I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the last few weeks.
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