Practice makes hard things easier.

Practice makes hard things easier.

The repetitions that feel ordinary today become the abilities you stop noticing tomorrow. For more than thirty years, soccer was part of my identity. Weekends revolved around matches. Summers revolved around tournaments. Like many people who have played a sport for...
What People Are Fighting For

What People Are Fighting For

Look at the relationships, not the parts. In rehabilitation, people often tell us what matters in the plainest possible language. Someone says, “I want my girlfriend back.” Someone else says, “I want to drive again.” Another person says, “I want to go back to work.”...
Remove Before You Add

Remove Before You Add

The fastest way to improve a system is often to remove what is holding it back. For years, my phone became progressively noisier. Not because I was using it more, but because every application seemed to believe it deserved my attention. News alerts. Social media....
Every Repetition Is Practice

Every Repetition Is Practice

One of the privileges of working in rehabilitation is that you spend your career watching people learn. Sometimes they learn skills that help them reclaim parts of their lives after an illness or injury. Other times, often without realizing it, they become remarkably...
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