Challenging a Patient's Firmly Held Belief
How do we help our patients past their limiting or incorrect beliefs? This is always a challenging conversation.
Maybe they're drinking a ton of water. Or been told about the 'IC diet'. Or believe they have nerve damage. Or have heard some other fear-based narrative.
This topic comes out of a recent PelvicSanity 'Clinical Collective' training.
The first thing is to assess just how firmly held the belief is. We often assume it's something they strongly believe, when many times it's just the only thing they've been told. Or they actually wish it wasn't true!
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