Setting Bigger Goals With Your Patients
Sometimes I think our goals with our patients are too small. Either we talk about resolving their symptoms or we take their initial goal at face value.
But our patients have often adapted to a sub-optimal life! Their goals are smaller than they could be. Maybe they talk about just wanting to walk without a pad, but they used to run marathons! Or they just want to be able to tolerate intercourse, instead of a goal of pleasurable, pain-free sexual activity. Or they just want to be able to get good night's sleep, and aren't even thinking it's possible to run around with their grandchildren.
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