Five mindset shifts that helped me move out of fear and into control
How can we not have fear of the unknown through our knee replacements, right?
It’s so crazy, because I caught myself constantly telling myself how scared I was of my knee replacement. And it wasn’t until I stopped saying I’m scared and started identifying what it was that scared me so much that I could get curious about why it was bothering me.
This was a process. It took me a while to slow down enough to really identify what I was most afraid of. What I noticed was that if I just kept telling myself, I’m scared, I’m scared, the fear kept coming back. Over and over.
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You know that panicky, can’t-think-straight feeling that creeps in before surgery?
Or when you’re in recovery and your brain just won’t quit spinning?
That’s not weakness. That’s your body trying to protect you.
Before my first knee replacement, I don’t think I slept more than a couple hours at a time. My brain was in overdrive running through the same questions on repeat: Do I have everything ready? Am I missing something? Did I plan the meals? Will the house still run without me?
I was the Jill-of-all-trades in our home—planning, cooking, cleaning, remembering every little detail—so handing over control for a while was brutal.
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