Moving Beyond Pain

I don’t like pain. It’s very uncomfortable. And it hurts.

As some of you may know I broke my arm recently and I’m now going through physical therapy. And it hurts a lot. There are days when I do not want to do it. But I know that my arm will never get back to normal unless I continue with this painful therapy.

The physical pain is just one area that I have to get past. There’s also the mental and emotional pain that I’m dealing with.

The exercises that I have to do on a daily basis take time and effort. I wake up in the morning in some discomfort and sometimes there is pain but I know I have to do my physical therapy or else I will never get better.

This is the argument that goes on in my brain every morning. Mentally I feel like giving up at times. I feel like I should just accept the limitation of movement that I am experiencing. Maybe I can live with a limited range of motion in my left arm. Other people get by with no use of their arms. These are all the thoughts going through my head on days and I don’t want to do physical therapy. Which are most days.

One of the things I do every morning is Journal. In the beginning, I was mostly dealing with my anger. But now that I have that more or less under control I focus my writing on more positive aspects.