gives you some sense of control. Partner with your practitioner.
Offer regular, precise and accurate reports on your treatment’s progress. With alternative care, treatment is high- ly individualized and requires ongoing monitoring and adjustment to discern what is working and what isn’t. Follow and continue treatment as advised and exercise patience and compassion for yourself and your treatment team. Take care of yourself. Eat
healthy, sleep until rested and regularly engage in suitable physical activity and gentle exercise. Call whenever you need help or advice. Stick with it. Expect incremental progress, even in the face of setbacks. Visualize an optimum state of well- ness for yourself. Past failures do not need to be repeated when you work in tandem with your practitio- ner partner(s). Watch for relief, then acknowledge and nurture it by being a good patient. Share all good news with your practitioner. Don’t own the disease. Avoid scary labels and lists of symptoms in discussions with yourself and others. You want them to visualize health right along with you.
Maintain a healthier lifestyle. Returning to old habits may cause prob- lems to return. Make health a priority in daily choices.
Treat your practitioner with
respect. Caring natural practitioners are ready and willing to walk with you on your path of healing. Forego rants about past bad experiences and direct any complaints about lack of coverage for alternative treatment toward the insurance companies.
Remember, your success is also your natural practitioners’ success, and they are invested in answering your questions and earning your trust. Help them help you. Finally, let them know when they’re doing a good job; a little appreciation goes a long way during a day of caretaking.
Terri Evans, an acupuncturist and doc- tor of Oriental Medicine, owns the TAE Healthy Aging Center located at 3811 Airport Rd. N. in Naples. Phone 430- 6800, visit
TAEHealthyAging.com See ad on back cover.
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