I agree with Mike - therapy is hard, much harder than other things I've had to do in my life, but so worth it, despite (or because of??) the fact that it is painful!I wonder if, maybe, it was feeling easy, comfortable, and there wasn't much or any pain involved at all, there would have to be the question of - is it helping at all?! When wounds are healing, they still hurt.....and if you have to do rehab/physical therapy, that can hurt too, but if you don't go through the hurt in that case, you don't regain the strength/mobility and fully heal. The hurt does heal. So I think of it that way with therapy......it might hurt more right now, going through it, but the hurt (both the old wounds that have to be dealt with and the pain of dealing with them) will heal if I go through it - focus on the healing that is happening, rather than the hurt that is accompanying the healing right now. --- Easy for me to say all this, when I'd like to run from the pain sometimes, too.
to you, Christina, and Mike - and well, since I'm in a huggy mood today, everyone!