{"id":5280,"date":"2023-08-07T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T00:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T00:14:44","slug":"trust-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/trust-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trust can be a forgotten element\nin making wise health decisions. It is not unusual to spend a portion of each\nday wishing we had made a healthier choice or two. Sometimes it\u2019s because we\u2019ve\neaten 2 pieces of cake. Sometimes it\u2019s because we skipped a workout. Occasionally,\nit\u2019s because of our experience of the healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"trust<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Healthcare professionals often\nfail to create opportunities to listen and build trust. There are many reasons\nfor this. One is that they may work for an institution that sets a maximum time\ngoal for patient visits. One common time goal is 10 minutes. That might be\nsufficient for a follow-up after a treatment plan is chosen, but it\u2019s not much\ntime for an initial visit or a visit in which options will be presented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten minutes is not much time to answer\nquestions or establish a trusting relationship. And the fact that we meet many\nof these professionals for the first time when we\u2019re partially clothed doesn\u2019t encourage\ntrust either. The lopsidedness of the doctor\/patient relationship as it\u2019s currently\nexperienced in the US can even undermine our trust in ourselves and our\nexperience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are the careless\nerrors: Being told my MRI was normal for someone with migraines after I was\nscanned because my fingers were numb. I\u2019d never had a migraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deliberate deceptions: The\ndoctor prescribing a drug to treat a condition because of what he said were abnormal\ntest numbers. The numbers falling in the middle of normal range, \u201cexactly where\nwe want them,\u201d when I asked the nurse to read me the actual numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The misogynistic assumptions: \u201cIf\nyou didn\u2019t have an intelligent boyfriend sitting here, I\u2019d tell you it\u2019s all in\nyour head.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And those are just some of my<\/em>\nexperiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How are we supposed to trust our\nperceptions when a highly trained professional tells us it\u2019s all in our heads.\nMind you, I\u2019m not saying that psychological symptoms and somatic experience can\u2019t\ngo hand in hand, but at the visit mentioned above, I was recovering from recurring\npneumonia and asking for a diagnostic referral to determine the underlying\ncause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken as a whole, the experience\nof healthcare often isn\u2019t all that healthy. That is unfortunate. And it makes\nit more difficult to decipher and determine the best course of action to take\nin our everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good daily health practices and good healthcare can both begin with the same question, \u201cWhat matters to you?\u201d<\/a> Determining your priorities and what you want your life to look like is a great way to guide your decisions and actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And your priorities can be\nwhatever you want them to be. There\u2019s no right or wrong. You are in the driver\u2019s\nseat. You can allow yourself grace and the flexibility to change priorities as\nyou grow or when something doesn\u2019t feel right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can learn to trust yourself. That may not mean trusting your instincts as much as trusting yourself to gather credible information and learn, trusting yourself to listen to the signals your body gives you, and trusting yourself to face problems head-on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are clear on the things that matter to you most, you\u2019ll be better able to trust your decisions and measure whether the advice of others is in line with your priorities. This can guide you to better health decisions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust can be a forgotten element in making wise health decisions. It is not unusual to spend a portion of each day wishing we had made a healthier choice or two. Sometimes it\u2019s because we\u2019ve eaten 2 pieces of cake. Sometimes it\u2019s because we skipped a workout. Occasionally, it\u2019s because of our experience of the … Continue reading “Trust and Health”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3461,3462,3464,1360,3460,3463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}