Creating a Safe Practice: 10 Steps to Rewriting the Script of Health Care Trauma

(Oh my! A list!)
Like it or not, you as a practitioner are in the position to harm your clients or facilitate their healing. Following are ten steps to using your power for good — creating a safe practice and, as such, rewriting the script of previous health care trauma:
- Recognize that the barrel of our health care system is chock full of rotten apples.
- Understand that no matter how empowered, assertive, communicative, and devoted to healing an individual may be, she still may have been victimized by poor health care treatment.
- Know that being victimized does not mean being a victim.
- Have compassion for the way your client’s life may have been turned upside down, on every level, as a result of poor health care in the past.
- Be aware that the person you’re working with may have suffered physical and emotional trauma at the hands of former practitioners she once trusted.
- Honor the courage, strength, tenacity, faith, and perseverance it may have taken for your client to get to you.
- Respect the vulnerability and anxiety your client may feel in taking the leap of faith to work with you.
- Validate that it may take a while for your client to solidly trust her faith in you, no matter how safe and gentle you are.
- Embrace the powerful opportunity to rewrite the script for your client – as such helping her heal not only physically, but also emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
- Offer your client authentic TLC (tender loving care), knowing that love is the most primary and powerful healing balm you can provide.
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