Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
A difficult conversation I have had has been about a way to handle how to approach feeling less of a student athlete compared to others. At first, I was unaware of what to do, and I just kept getting tore up over something which was really effecting me. The only thing to fix this situation was to be able to talk to this person, and tell them how I was feeling because this person might not even notice this was happening. However, at the time, I wasn’t really thinking of that. I reached out to one of preceptors for help because this was effecting me mentally and physically. My preceptor helped me work through what was actually bothering me. I was able to put my thoughts together about how I wanted to approach this situation. I asked this person if I could talk to them about something that was bothering me. I knew this was going to be really hard because I do not like confrontation. I would much rather just blow it off and keep going with my day. However, this was tearing me up. So I was able to create a list of things about how I was feeling and presented them to the individual. I was very calm and respectful with how I was feeling because I just wanted things to become back to normal. Lastly, I was very understanding to the situation. When I talked with my preceptor and told them how I was feeling, I came across very strong and aggressive. I think this was really helpful to talk to my preceptor first because I was able to see how much this had affected me. This also allowed me to let my steam about the situation. I will definitely want to continue talking to someone first about something that is difficult to talk about because I was able to be more calm and understanding during the time with that individual. I also learned from that experience that everyone views things differently. Everyone is not always on the same page as you. It’s always good to talk to people how you are feeling, even if it may be difficult, because then they are able to see your side too that they might not even noticed had been going on. I will continue to talk to someone first because it allowed me to approach the situation differently by allowing myself to calm down and put my thoughts together. Lastly, it showed me that I need to be more understanding. It showed me that being open to different situations is the best way to approach something that is challenging.
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April 2019
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