🚫 The Pain of Too Much: Why Healing Requires Saying No
In modern rehab, we often confuse more with better. But healing doesn’t happen when we add more tasks, it happens when we make space for what matters. Inspired by Greg McKeown’s Essentialism, this post invites you to say no to noise and yes to what restores agency.
In a world of more, sometimes healing starts with less.
“If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.”
— Greg McKeown, Essentialism
In modern rehab, we often confuse more with better.
But healing doesn’t happen when we add more tasks, it happens when we make space for what matters.
Inspired by Greg McKeown’s Essentialism, this post invites you to say no to noise and yes to what restores agency.
❓ Start With Why (In Pain)
Simon Sinek taught leaders to start with purpose. What if patients and clinicians did the same?
This piece explores how reconnecting with your why in the healing process can restore clarity, agency, and momentum — even in the middle of pain.
Pain isn’t just a problem to solve.
It’s a signal, yes — but often of something deeper: disconnection from purpose, identity, or meaning.
In medicine, we often leap to what to do: the exercise, the modality, the pill, the injection, the surgery.
But what if the most important healing question isn’t what or how…
—it’s why?
This piece explores how the framework made famous by Simon Sinek — “Start With Why” — applies just as powerfully to healing as it does to leadership.
It asks:
• Why do you want to heal?
• What would feeling better allow you to do, be, or reconnect with?
• And is your care aligned with that purpose — or pulling you further away?
This Wondering offers a way to re-anchor healing in meaning, and introduces the “Healing North Star” tool to help clarify and reclaim your why.
🧭 Is This Helping or Holding Me?
Sometimes healing means asking harder questions. Is this treatment empowering you — or keeping you stuck? This reflection reframes how we assess progress in care and offers a self-audit tool to help you reclaim your agency in the healing process.
Not all care empowers.
Sometimes, what looks like help can quietly reinforce dependency.
Sometimes, progress stalls not because you’re doing something wrong — but because the system keeps you from asking the right questions.
This piece invites you to pause and reflect:
• Is your treatment building your capacity — or just managing your symptoms?
• Do you feel more in control of your healing — or more reliant on your providers?
• Are you getting stronger, or just getting… stuck?
Healing isn’t just about feeling better. It’s about reclaiming your role.
This Wondering offers an insight to help you assess your care, your agency, and your next step forward — on your terms.