Living Better While Living with Pain
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Backbone is a life-fulfilling message about managing chronic pain and living a life of purpose. For two decades, Karen Duffy, New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress, has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, trained recreational therapist, and hospice chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain
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The Pain Companion is a practical guidebook for people living with chronic pain written by someone who has endured debilitating pain for many years and found ways to thrive and enjoy life despite the challenges. The book is intended to be, quite literally, a companion through pain, validating and acknowledging its myriad challenges and offering a pathway to greater well-being, ease, and comfort.
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Backbone
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Backbone is a life-fulfilling message about managing chronic pain and living a life of purpose. For two decades, Karen Duffy, New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress, has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. In this powerful, inspirational, funny, and important manual for surviving pain, Duffy draws on her experience as a patient advocate, trained recreational therapist, and hospice chaplain to illuminate gratifying methods people can use to cope with chronic pain.
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1 out of 5 stars
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- By NMwritergal on 11-09-17
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- Narrated by: Joshua Mackey
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Craig Beck is a master hypnotist, a world-renowned respected timeline therapist, and NLP master practitioner. Craig understands what makes people tick and, more importantly, how to access and remove the erroneous programs in the subconscious mind that cause us problems every day. Designed to quickly help you improve your pain management; use this powerful and proven hypnosis download to dramatically help decrease chronic pain.
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If you're reading this, chances are your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain - and the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it. The good news: Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues have helped thousands of people learn to use the power of mindfulness to transform their relationship to pain and suffering, and discover new degrees of freedom for living with greater ease and quality of life.
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Like a friend talking to you
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It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us - sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress-reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.
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For anyone who has lost a career because of chronic pain.... For anyone who has ever felt devastated, confused, or less-than because your health prevents you from working a formal job.... For anyone who have ever said to God, "This doesn't make sense. Wouldn't I be more useful to you if I were healthy?" This book is for you.
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When we seek comfort and relief from stress, Tara Brach teaches, we often unconsciously turn to false refuges such as material wealth, approval from others, or a preoccupation with the past and future. Yet by cultivating true refuge in this moment, not only can we find shelter from the storms of life but we also open ourselves up to fully experiencing joy and fulfillment. Here, Tara Brach guides a meditation using the therapeutic R.A.I.N. process for releasing fear and healing through self-compassion.
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Wonderful
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books on pain I’ve read
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The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes-in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul, and body. This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is copiously illustrated with examples of the author's and his clients' journeys of recovering.
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Needs a PDF
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Chronic pain, illness, and disability take so much away. Sometimes it seems as though they take everything we have ever loved and held dear. Our physical abilities and our jobs. Our current passions and future dreams. Our finances and our friends. Our sense of community and our ability to engage the world in ways we could before. Chronic pain takes away our sense of self and who we always thought ourselves to be. How in the world are we supposed to deal with this fact?
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Well Done!
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What's more, Lightly is a complete philosophy of life. When you're tempted by an impulse purchase, trying to resist a chocolate donut, or struggling to say no to another obligation, all you have to remember is one word - "lightly" - to boost your resolve and make beautiful choices. It doesn't get any easier than that. Lightly is like a recipe book for minimalism, designed so you can dip into it anytime for advice and inspiration.
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Narrator’s voice is absolutely beautiful
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Publisher's Summary
Living with pain without becoming its captive
Living in pain can be one of the most challenging things you will ever have to endure in your life. Chronic pain is relentless, unforgiving, and exhausting and is mostly invisible to others.
Living Better While Living with Pain offers practical advice from someone who has learned to live with pain without becoming captive to it. Beginning with a discussion of the ways in which chronic pain is experienced differently from short-term pain, the book offers useful suggestions for approaches to pain management and pain relief appropriate for anyone experiencing pain from surgery, fibromyalgia, thoracic outlet syndrome, arthritis, cancer, back pain, or other chronically painful conditions. Succinct, clear, and easily accessible to listeners in pain, the book includes 21 practical tips for creating more ease, comfort, and resilience right now.
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- Keensly
- 09-28-16
Short and Sweet
Great encouraging and practical read. It was a,little on the shirt side @ 50 minutes, however.
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- Ali
- 11-19-18
My twenty year battle with Chronic Pain.
Thank you for sharing your painful experience and helping so many of us find our voices.
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- Jenna
- 10-29-18
Truly insightful
After living with Fibro for 11 yrs, I have learned to live as Ms Shockley suggests. It’s taken me a good 8 yrs of many articles, books and holistic modalities to do what is outlined in this book. What she covers is extremely valuable to those of us learning to break free of our pain and those bad, life-long habits.
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- Wendy
- 02-06-17
Chronic pain support
Narrorator was easy to understand. The subject of the book gave useful suggestions. Learn to accept your restrictions. The chronic pain is not your fault, stop feeling guilty
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