Change the Story of Your Life

I was working with a new client yesterday who is at a crossroads in their health and healing. Their main goal for our sessions is to not end up in a wheelchair or a walker as they get older, despite the state of their knees and the chronic pain in their lower back.

I'm on board with this.

While they were reflecting on the table, they told me of their aunt who had gone the wheelchair route. After a fall, she never walked again, even though there was nothing wrong with her legs. She could have walked, but had seen the story too many times. Other people in her life took falls or had injuries as an elder and lived the rest of their life in a wheelchair.

My client refuses to do that.

She told me, "The mind is a powerful thing. If you think that living the end of your life in a wheelchair is what's going to happen. Your mind will make it happen."

I agreed and added, "The mind is a powerful thing the other way too. Look at you, you're telling yourself a story that through work and rehabilitation and listening to your body, you can keep walking for many more years."

She got off the table from her first session feeling taller, in way less pain, and confident that she can take those next steps in her healing.

We all have the power to change our minds through the stories we tell ourselves.

Be aware of the narrative you're living and that you're the one writing every day. If you don't like what you see coming, change the story in your mind. You'll start to change the story of your life.