BodyMind Living Magazine :: Navigating Joy! :: October 2021

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Dena Halle :: HONOR YOUR PROCESS

Being an athletic trainer, holding a degree in Sports Medicine, and working in physical therapy and massage therapy,

I used to think that recovery was very straightforward. A patient achieves certain benchmarks and keeps progressing, keeps improving, until there are no more setbacks, and everything is fine again. Almost like the initial injury or incident is forgotten and everything in the body is like new. Of course, this isn’t the case unless a person is either in denial or blissfully and completely unaware. Now that I’m through most of my own personal recovery, I sometimes catch myself in disbelief of my own experiences, wondering if I ever had a bone-breaking accident or survived a cancer 20


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