WCC Insider

April 18 2014

Posted: April 18, 2014
By: Aimee

Hey! Aimee here.

You know, being a Chiropractic Assistant can be so rewarding. On a daily basis you get to see people change their lives for the better. You see their health increase and the excitement in their eyes on how they have FINALLY found the missing piece to their health.

Being in charge of marketing, I get to spread the word of chiropractic all day long! How lucky am I??

But every once in a while everyone here at WCC needs to take a step back and regroup. We need to remind ourselves that we are a healing office, and there are some of us who are not as fortunate in health.

This morning, a dear patient of ours who has come in every day since 2001 was the barer of bad news. His daughter has lost the battle with cancer and is now on life support.

When I heard this, this morning, it brought tears to my eyes. I have known him since I was a little girl (just like most of our Wellness Partners) so he feels like family to me. I ran over to him and gave him a hug, the only thing I knew I could do... there were no words. So I said a silent prayer for him, his daughter, and their families.  

Being a CA, I get to know our Wellness Partners on a personal level, I know most everything about them: family, where they have lived, vacations they go on, where they work, etc. Which is such a nice thing (definitely not the experience you get when you go to a MD's office.) So when they tell you sad personal stories of theirs, it's hard not to feel their pain.

But something that I learned a while back, you can't hold on to those feelings. "Leave it at the door." Don't carry the sad, angry, discouraging feelings around with you all day, leave it at the door before you step foot into the office. Because every Wellness Partner who walks through that door deserves your ear-to-ear smile and happiest welcome.

So that's what I'm sharing with you all today. Just leave it at the door. If something bad happens, don't let it get you down, don't harbor those feelings to the point where it will rub off on others and make them, in turn, have a bad day. Just let it go. It will make you feel better!

And, if when you get home you still have those feelings in the back of your mind, you can address them at that point. Take your anger out by writing it down, or talking to your spouse, or calling a friend.