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Living Better While Living with Pain
- 21 Ways to Reduce the Stress of Chronic Pain and Create Greater Ease and Relief Today
- Narrated by: Sarah Anne Shockley
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 06-15-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Any Road Press
Regular price: $3.95
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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
- St Louis MO area
- 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
1 of 2 people found this review helpful