Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

Slow is Fast : The Secret to Faster Healing

2 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this talk, Joanne Smith critiques the modern culture of speed and urgency, especially as it applies to dealing with health symptoms. She argues that trying to fix problems quickly—mirroring the rapid click‑button mindset—can actually worsen or prolong suffering by unintentionally fueling the issue. Drawing on years of experience working with many clients, she observes a pattern: people who adopt a slower, gentler, "nothing to fix" approach tend to recover more quickly. The core message is that slowing down and allowing the body or mind to heal naturally can be a faster path to true recovery than aggressive, fast‑track interventions.

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Whereas now it's everything is so fast. It's there in the click of a button. There's a lot of urgency, a lot of getting results fast. There's a lot of, well, yeah, urgency to get things done quickly. And when it comes to suffering with symptoms, then if we're going to be going at it with that same level of urgency, Then that can be really, really counterproductive, that same level of, I guess it's just, it's unintentionally fueling things to keep going without realizing. And I've worked with a lot of people now over quite a few years, and I'm really beginning to see these, these patterns hugely now, where what I'm realizing is that the people that do go with this slowest— slower approach, the gentle, more, um, nothing to fix approach, actually get there quicker?