Mona Sharma argues that obsessing over wellness as a problem to fix keeps you stuck. Real health means building a collaborative relationship with your provider, setting specific goals together, and adjusting as you go.
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You said the words chronic wellness, which I want to start hearing that every single day. We're so focused on chronic illness that the words chronic wellness sounds like, oh, yeah, that's like something that I want to chase.
I think that not only can healthcare be a team sport where you actually have, like, deep friendship and kinship with the people who care about you, but it can also be something that isn't on a timeline where you have something you're working on all year round. You're doing this in an iterative process that you set goals that are are time specific. So you actually have goals to work towards, you have compassionate accountability, and you have someone to help actually do the motivational interviewing, work on goal setting, work on tackling obstacles when you actually had something you wanted to implement that didn't work.