“How are you doing?” Such a simple question. Also… not always an easy one. Today I skipped the auto-response and named what’s actually going well. Turns out, there’s more progress there than I realized. What’s one specific win you could name today, even if everything isn’t perfect?
How are you doing? Is a really tricky question sometimes. If someone asked you how you're doing, maybe skip the reflex answer and name one thing that's actually working. Sometimes that's enough to remind you that the progress is still happening.
How are you doing? Is a really tricky question sometimes, because today it's brutally cold. The world still feels heavy, and my instinct is to say, you know, we're fine. You know the autopilot answer. But this morning, when we wrapped up speech therapy over Zoom, which we've done for a long time, we had a therapist we hadn't seen for a while. So when she asked, how are you guys doing? Instead of defaulting to we're okay, I actually paused, and I realized that I had real things to say. He's more regulated.
His vocabulary has grown. He started writing words because it's calming for him, which blows my mind. So, no, everything is not perfect. And yes, some things are still hard. But today I could say, here's what's going well and absolutely mean it. And that felt like a huge win. So if someone asked you how you're doing today, maybe skip the reflex answer and name one thing that's actually working, even one small thing, because sometimes that's enough to remind you that the progress is still happening.
So how are you doing today? What's one small thing you can share with us?
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