For just a moment, think about the physical recovery period after trauma. What gets people through physical recovery? Physical rehabilitation demands a lot from its patients and clients.

What actually gets these patients through this difficult time is the help they receive, but that is only part of the answer. Just as important as the skilled help are the courage, strength and determination of the survivors and their families.

We call this the Willpower Attitude.

Willpower helps us in many situations. Physical, mental and even emotionally laden situations can sometimes be helped by a dose of Willpower.

As physical recovery changes into psychological recovery (to feelings, thinking and behaviour), a new Attitude is needed.

People get stuck in psychological recovery if the only attitude they practice is Willpower.

This new Attitude is called Willingness – the Willingness to stay strong, to stay courageous but to add openness to how you approach life.

Benefit
If you have been feeling stuck – as if you keep hitting your head up against the wall – but don't know what to do, this new Attitude will help. It will teach you that it is not necessarily what you do but how you do it that is important.

Products To Help You

1. After Brain Injury: Tools for Living. A Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers and Survivors
   This book – in plain language – focuses on all of psychological recovery: the Self, Attitudes, Recovering Emotionally, Thinking in New Ways and Changing Behaviour. The Pocket Guide will also help.
2. Volume 1 of our DVDs and Videos talks about the importance of this Door Opener: the Attitude of Willingness.

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