By: Hillary
D Price
Financial recovery is much like healing from a wound.
Through the story of healing below you will experience all the emotions you
need to recover emotionally so you can recover financially.
Imagine you wake up in a hospital room. You do not remember how you got there. You look around and see people you love. You speak up, “Hey what am I doing here?” Your mother races to your side. She exclaims, “You’re awake! Doctor, he’s awake!” She runs down the hall to find the doctor. You look around in a state of confusion. You try to move but your limbs feel heavy and sore. It is too much effort to move, so you ask one of your cousins to help you. Your cousin comes to your side and says, “Man we did not know if you were going to wake up.”
As it turns out, you were on your regular morning run and you collapsed. You slipped into a coma for six months. During those six months your muscles atrophied, limiting movement of your arms and legs. You have been prescribed six months of rehabilitation where you will relearn to walk, move your arms and take care of yourself.
Needless to say, you fall into a serious state of depression. You cannot believe you need people to help take care of you. You have lost your freedom as an adult. You cannot feed yourself and you cannot even use the bathroom on your own. You are powerless. You go over and over in your mind what happened. You cannot remember. It seems unreal. Your last memory is running that 10k just for fun and now you cannot even get out of bed, which seems like yesterday. Initially you refuse to participate in the physical and occupational therapy. It just seems like too long of a road ahead to even try. You just lay in bed staring off into space, dreaming of a life that is not yours. You question, “Why did this happen to me? What is even the point of going on?”
With the support of those around, you are coaxed into trying the physical therapy. It is extremely difficult. You feel guilty that everyone has to help you. Any self-confidence you had before the accident is gone. You are struggling to find any self-worth in that brain of yours. As therapy continues you begin to experience many emotions. You are jealous of those around you who can move. You are jealous of those who get any sort of privacy. You want to have a normal life. You feel trapped and just having to talk to others makes you angry. You are filled with hatred for the physical therapists that keep making you do these challenging exercises. You are enraged at your body for not working properly. Your mind is firing away and your limbs just will not do what you are telling them to do.
As you lie in your bed, you begin to plot your revenge on all those who are forcing you to exercises and who check on you to make sure you are practicing. You starting planning how to dismantle some of the rehabilitation equipment so you never have to do another leg lift again. You blame yourself for not working hard enough and your brain for shutting down for those six months. It all just seems so unfair. You worry you may never be able to take care of yourself again. As the months progress, you begin to move with a bit more ease. However, you have a hit a plateau because you can feed yourself and walk to the restroom again, but your body seems to tire quickly. The stamina you once had is gone. You doubt it will ever come back. You are disappointed and frustrated it is taking so long to get better.
At the end of month four, you seem sure that nothing will ever be as it once was. You may never run the annual 10k again. You may never go back to work because you tire out so quickly. You get irritated, when your family asks about your progress because you want to be further along than you are. As month five wears on, you are bored; it seems you have done every exercise at least a million times. You find yourself yearning for something, but you just do not know what.
One morning, you wake up and go to physical therapy. Your therapist sits you down and starts his usual list of questions. He tells you that he would like you to try to run today. Your stomach drops. You are not sure if you are nervous or excited. He says, “Give it a try, I think you are ready.” You start to walk, then move to a slow jog. You are doing it! You are actually jogging, slowly, but still jogging. You feel this spring rise up in you and you smile.
You think to yourself, I cannot remember the last time I smiled. For the first time since you awoke in the hospital, you feel a sense of relief and that everything is going to be okay. As the days progress you are filled with hope and happiness that you will have your life back again. You believe in yourself and you begin to chant while you jog, “I will run a 10k again; I know I can do it.”
You enthusiastically sign up for a 10k run. You eagerly train every day. You are filled with such happiness that you are able to move, able to care for yourself and able to run. You are so grateful for all those around you who loved and supported you through this healing process. You are filled with joy every morning you wake. You are happy to be alive!
Financial recovery is much like the healing in this story. So take the time to heal and you will be able be financially successful.
Imagine you wake up in a hospital room. You do not remember how you got there. You look around and see people you love. You speak up, “Hey what am I doing here?” Your mother races to your side. She exclaims, “You’re awake! Doctor, he’s awake!” She runs down the hall to find the doctor. You look around in a state of confusion. You try to move but your limbs feel heavy and sore. It is too much effort to move, so you ask one of your cousins to help you. Your cousin comes to your side and says, “Man we did not know if you were going to wake up.”
As it turns out, you were on your regular morning run and you collapsed. You slipped into a coma for six months. During those six months your muscles atrophied, limiting movement of your arms and legs. You have been prescribed six months of rehabilitation where you will relearn to walk, move your arms and take care of yourself.
Needless to say, you fall into a serious state of depression. You cannot believe you need people to help take care of you. You have lost your freedom as an adult. You cannot feed yourself and you cannot even use the bathroom on your own. You are powerless. You go over and over in your mind what happened. You cannot remember. It seems unreal. Your last memory is running that 10k just for fun and now you cannot even get out of bed, which seems like yesterday. Initially you refuse to participate in the physical and occupational therapy. It just seems like too long of a road ahead to even try. You just lay in bed staring off into space, dreaming of a life that is not yours. You question, “Why did this happen to me? What is even the point of going on?”
With the support of those around, you are coaxed into trying the physical therapy. It is extremely difficult. You feel guilty that everyone has to help you. Any self-confidence you had before the accident is gone. You are struggling to find any self-worth in that brain of yours. As therapy continues you begin to experience many emotions. You are jealous of those around you who can move. You are jealous of those who get any sort of privacy. You want to have a normal life. You feel trapped and just having to talk to others makes you angry. You are filled with hatred for the physical therapists that keep making you do these challenging exercises. You are enraged at your body for not working properly. Your mind is firing away and your limbs just will not do what you are telling them to do.
As you lie in your bed, you begin to plot your revenge on all those who are forcing you to exercises and who check on you to make sure you are practicing. You starting planning how to dismantle some of the rehabilitation equipment so you never have to do another leg lift again. You blame yourself for not working hard enough and your brain for shutting down for those six months. It all just seems so unfair. You worry you may never be able to take care of yourself again. As the months progress, you begin to move with a bit more ease. However, you have a hit a plateau because you can feed yourself and walk to the restroom again, but your body seems to tire quickly. The stamina you once had is gone. You doubt it will ever come back. You are disappointed and frustrated it is taking so long to get better.
At the end of month four, you seem sure that nothing will ever be as it once was. You may never run the annual 10k again. You may never go back to work because you tire out so quickly. You get irritated, when your family asks about your progress because you want to be further along than you are. As month five wears on, you are bored; it seems you have done every exercise at least a million times. You find yourself yearning for something, but you just do not know what.
One morning, you wake up and go to physical therapy. Your therapist sits you down and starts his usual list of questions. He tells you that he would like you to try to run today. Your stomach drops. You are not sure if you are nervous or excited. He says, “Give it a try, I think you are ready.” You start to walk, then move to a slow jog. You are doing it! You are actually jogging, slowly, but still jogging. You feel this spring rise up in you and you smile.
You think to yourself, I cannot remember the last time I smiled. For the first time since you awoke in the hospital, you feel a sense of relief and that everything is going to be okay. As the days progress you are filled with hope and happiness that you will have your life back again. You believe in yourself and you begin to chant while you jog, “I will run a 10k again; I know I can do it.”
You enthusiastically sign up for a 10k run. You eagerly train every day. You are filled with such happiness that you are able to move, able to care for yourself and able to run. You are so grateful for all those around you who loved and supported you through this healing process. You are filled with joy every morning you wake. You are happy to be alive!
Financial recovery is much like the healing in this story. So take the time to heal and you will be able be financially successful.
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Financial Recovery at www.hdpriceinc.com.
Hillary D. Price is a financial counselor and coach, author, and entrepreneur
in Southern California. Her innovative and
in-demand “Make Dollars and Cents with Emotions” course is available at www.hdpriceinc.com.
Private counseling available by appointment only. 888-769-7714, Fax
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