The other day, towards the end of her appointment, I had a patient ask me what my most difficult kind of patient was. You would think it’s someone with a severe hearing loss, oddly shaped ear canals, or even a difficult to test patient. It’s not any of those cases. The most difficult kind of patient, I tell her, is the one who hasn’t come to terms with their hearing loss. They are in denial. hearing better- we got you! We’re here to walk that path alongside you.
The question to ask is, “would I rather deal with the discomfort of change or the discomfort of doing nothing (and the effects of untreated hearing loss)?” Change is hard. No one can do that work for you. Not your provider, not your family, nor your friends. Only you can put in the work to help yourself.
We run into these scenarios often in our lives. It is only when doing nothing costs more than changing do we take that next step.
We often tell our serves a story that paints a much harder picture of how it is going down, when in fact, the process is easier than we imagined. Sometimes we are our own greatest obstacles.
As someone who has been doing this for more than 20 years, and someone who has gone through some personal tribulations, I’m here to tell you that you can do it. You can be brave, and it might be so much easier than you imagined, whatever big step you’re grappling with. And if it’s
