No Pain No Gain

I was in a session with my physical therapist recently, and she was talking about chronic pain.  She explained how when we have an injury or some type of condition that causes chronic pain, we begin to move in ways that protect us from triggering this pain.  For...

Will You “Get it?”

When a potential client calls Live Oak and speaks to our intake staff, we ask a host of questions to connect the client with one of our therapists who, based on the client’s concerns, is the most appropriate and best fit we can find.  We’ll ask about reasons for...

That Little Old Ant*

It’s almost always the case that one of the tasks of therapy is to foster or restore a sense of hope.  We often seek therapy because we have exhausted other avenues for healing, or the ways we have soothed ourselves in the past don’t work the way they used to.  Hope...

Good Grief

In reviewing these past several months of blog posts, I realized that I have mentioned both my mother and father a number of times, often referring to their old age or their deaths, which occurred nine and seven years ago respectively.  I began to think more about how...

Life is Too Short

I remember as an adult, when I would share with my mother frustration or anger I felt toward one or both of my brothers, her consistent response was:  “Oh Jeff, life’s too short.  Don’t be like that.”  When I think about it now, I realize she told me that many times,...