What size is the stone in your shoe?

I was reflecting on the metaphor for walking with a stone in your shoe recently, while recovering from some minor leg surgery, requiring an hour of walking every day. A small stone can be a minor irritation that you can ignore for a bit, while a bigger, sharper stone requires us to stop and do something to fix the situation.

The metaphor being, of course, your health and wellbeing. How big is the stone that you are walking with? i.e. how much is your health issue/concern stopping you from walking strongly forward in your life? Is is a niggle, that something’s just not quite right and you’ll get to it sometime, or is it a bigger irritation, that you think about each day, and wonder how to fix, or who to reach out to, or what to try?

I see and hear the latter situation many times in my clinics. Often, in ignoring the minor irritation, it turns into a health challenge that requires more time and attention, as it can no longer be ignored.

Nobody wants to be spending time and money on the niggles, really, but prevention truly is the cheaper cost, in so many ways. As a Naturopath, I’m trained to seek and attend to the niggles, often understanding where they can lead, and helping you turn them around, preventing deeper, more devastating health challenges.

If you’d like to walk forward without stones in your shoes, of any size, drop me an email at: flourishonline@gmail.com. I’d be honoured to walk beside you for a while.

Tracey.