Healing Is Not Linear
In this age of instant gratification and go-go-go, when our health shifts for whatever reason, the resulting recovery time can be incredibly frustrating. Sick days are viewed as cop-outs, and we place those who don’t take them (like ever) on pedestals. The expectation to dust yourself off and get back on the proverbial horse penetrates just about every industry. Case and point: on average, women in the United States are granted 10 weeks of maternity leave. Great job cooking up a child for ¾ of a year, but can you please be ready to part with him or her in a little over 2 months and pick up right where you left off?
Maintaining all political correctness and never equating something as beautiful as child birth to a “health issue”, while we love our American go-getter attitudes and adore our bootstrap roots, it’s no wonder we place the pressure on ourselves to just get over it and toughen up when a health challenge comes along. Just as x number of hours typically yields y number of project progress, we believe x number of days should equal y improvement in our health. While sometimes this can be the case, for the most part: healing is not linear.
We believe in the mind, body, spirit connection, and we believe that by God’s divine, intricate design, our beautiful bodies need a little more TLC than we’re often willing to give. The more we push, push, push past whatever the issue(s) might be on the front-end, the more we compound the work on the backend to unwind what’s broken in order to fully heal. Most often, a chronic health issue didn’t pop up overnight so the amount of time to heal likely won’t either.
Frustrating? Sure. Catastrophic? Nah.
At the risk of sounding trite and altruistic, we encourage you to be patient with yourself. Like an onion, our bodies are layered and our healing is too. One day you might feel great (and yay for improvement!), but don’t be discouraged if the next week pulls you back down. Sometimes our bodies are simply crying out for rest, but other times, this means you’ve healed one layer and another painful root pulls through. You’re not going backwards! It’s all part of the process. The name of the game at R+R is root-cause therapy, and we’re here to walk alongside you through our mind, body and spirit therapies as you peel back the layers to your best self.
If you’re currently feeling great and this really doesn’t apply to you, yay for you! At R+R we preach preventative care and self-care. While the following services are beautiful additions to a gentle detox, our foot baths, IV therapy, vitamin shots and infrared saunas also serve as valuable tools in preventative care to keep both acute illness and chronic conditions at bay. A steady incorporation of these services will help you function at optimal levels to keep you feeling your best and to ease the healing process if and when a health struggle pops up.
In sum, we’re all for working hard and showing up, but not at the cost of your health. Be patient with yourself and focus on how far you’ve come in the healing process when frustration starts to creep in because healing is not linear!