A short excerpt from Dr. Don Wood describing how his entrepreneurial mindset led him to develop a program aimed at reducing or eliminating the effects of trauma after observing links between trauma and chronic medical issues in his daughter; he contrasts solution-focused program development with traditional therapy.
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Daughter was on constant medication on steroids for the inflammation, for the Crohn's and the hemosiderosis, and all of those things just basically managed the problem, but didn't really fix the problem. And so when I looked at it, I said, how can we fix it? So I think the advantage was, like, I get back to the fact that I was an entrepreneur. I think the advantage of being an entrepreneur is that we look for solutions to fix problems. If I had come into this just to be a therapist, I don't think I would have seen this. So that was the advantage. I came in with a different mindset, a different way of looking at things. I was trying to solve a problem. Once I discovered there's a connection between the trauma, then I had to develop a program to help reduce the effects or eliminate the effects of trauma.