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MICHELLE KEENAN empowers people and organisations to achieve optimal well-being by providing customised wellness coaching programmes tailored to their unique goals.
When your body has been through injury or illness, the impact is not just physical.
Healing often takes time, and there can be a sense of uncertainty or fear as you begin, and
move through, that process.
Movements that once felt automatic may now feel unfamiliar or risky, and there can be
hesitation where there was once confidence – what you took for granted has been taken away, even if only temporarily.
This loss of trust is a natural response. Your body has, in some way, felt unreliable, and your mind adapts by becoming more cautious. This becomes a problem if that caution lingers long after it’s needed, holding you back from returning to movement in a meaningful way.
Rebuilding trust is not something that can be rushed. It develops gradually, through repeated experiences of safe, steady movement. This often means starting more gently than you might expect and progressing more slowly than you’d like!
Professional guidance, whether that’s from your physio, or a qualified personal trainer or
Pilates instructor with experience in rehabilitation, can be invaluable through this journey.
It requires patience, and a willingness to meet your body where it is now, rather than where it used to be. Importantly, trust is not rebuilt through pushing or proving something to yourself.
It comes from consistency and reliability – from showing yourself that your body can move
without pain, can respond without setback, and can support you again in everyday life.
There may still be limitations, and there may still be days that feel unpredictable. But over
time, as positive experiences accumulate, confidence will quietly and steadily begin to return.
Remember that your body hasn’t failed you, you just need to approach things a little
differently than before. Work with what you’ve got, and you can move forward from there.
- www.michellekeenan.com
