Living Pain

Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved author Toni Bernhard addresses these challenges and many more, using practical examples to illustrate how mindfulness, equanimity, and compassion can help listeners make peace with a life turned upside down. In her characteristic conversational style, Bernhard shows how to cope and make the most of life despite the challenges of chronic illness.

Stress. 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 book...

This book is written for you if you are a woman with fibromyalgia, ages fifty and better, who still has a lot of living to do. In Living Your BEST Life with Fibromyalgia, Dr. Robin Pfaff is your guide on the side, helping you to create your unique holistic game plan so you can love your life again. Throughout the book, you will learn skills and strategies to revitalize not only your physical well-being but also your emotional and mental wellness, your social well-being, and your experience of self-transcendence or spirituality.

Chronic Pain Doesn’t Own You: Evidence-Based Strategies to Reclaim Your Life What if living with chronic pain didn’t mean surrendering your life to it? What if proven, practical strategies could help you regain control, energy, and joy—without relying solely on medications? And what if someone who’s truly walked the same path showed you how? In Living Well with Chronic Pain, award-winning author Barb Grant draws on 30+ years of personal experience to deliver an empowering, evidence-based roadmap for managing pain and reclaiming your life. Unlike quick-fix promises, this book offers ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Two of America’s most revered ancient nutrition experts combine forces to give you a holistic plan for creating lasting health and well-being. In this breakthrough book, New York Times bestselling authors and nutrition experts Jordan Rubin and Dr. Josh Axe...

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.

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.

Inflammation is what happens when our body's own defenses turn on us - and it is a huge and growing problem. Written by the author of the groundbreaking Syndrome X, this essential updated edition of The Inflammation Syndrome draws on cutting-edge research conducted around the world to provide a revolutionary approach to healing inflammation-related problems through an easy-to-follow nutrition and supplement program.

Transform your everyday life by reducing and eliminating chronic pain with the latest science-backed pain relief techniques and expert practical advice from America’s bestselling doctor and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta. Are you one of the 52 million people who experience chronic pain in your...

Embark on your journey to pain-free living with these powerful alternative therapies for chronic pain management. Combining a collection of profound holistic practices and ancient Eastern medicine, this illuminating book explores a wealth of powerful, safe, and highly effective alternative therapies to help you manage your chronic pain and rediscover your zest for life—all without relying on conventional Western drugs and treatment. If you or someone you love often struggles with chronic pain, and you’re searching for proven, non-invasive techniques to strengthen your body, reclaim the ...

More spoken wisdom from the best selling author of The Power of Now. Warmly shared, in the authentic voice that has brought him international acclaim, here is Eckhart Tolle's simple and profound gift to us, at a time when our world needs it most.

INTRODUCTION Losing a loved one is arguably one of the most difficult and distressing experiences that any of us will ever experience in our lifetime. Yet in our everyday life we talk about death very little, perhaps because we do not experience it very often compared to our ancestors where the life expectancy was lower and where death was a more common occurrence. For us, due to advances in medicine, these losses typically occur much later in life so we have no “framework” to fall back on and feel lost as to how we should react. In spite of the lack of life experience, we have to one ...

In this audiobook, you will find all the fundamental information you need to understand the importance of following the anti-inflammatory diet. You will learn which foods can help you fight inflammation and which ones aggravate it. Most importantly, you will learn how to start the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle. Included are 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and smoothies to help you transition to the anti-inflammatory diet right away.

Why do you continue to hide your pain, shame and guilt? You carry it with you everywhere you go, knowing that one day you need to deal with it; yet, you keep procrastinating. And another year has gone by. This book will help you discover how to be set free from the pain and shame of your past so that you can experience freedom and live a life of meaning and purpose. In the 1980s, Craig Brown, Author of Stop Hiding Start Healing, lived the high life. He worked for one of the biggest cocaine dealers on the east coast and partied with music moguls and professional athletes while self-...

Are you tired of feeling misunderstood and misdiagnosed? Have you struggled with pain and swelling in your legs and arms, only to be told it's just obesity? Your frustrations may be linked to a little-understood condition called lipedema... But there's good news: you're not alone, and there are answers. Dr. Alexandre Campos Moraes Amato, a renowned vascular surgeon and researcher, brings you a compassionate and comprehensive guide that delves deep into the complexities of lipedema. This book also features a foreword by Dr. Karen Herbst, the leading researcher in lipedema today. This book is...

The Essentials of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is your compassionate, research-based guide to understanding EDS, managing symptoms, and reclaiming control over your daily life. With warmth and clarity, it explains complex medical topics in plain English and offers real-world tools you can use immediately.

Based on life-saving research and more than twenty years of clinical trials and practice, Unlearn Your Pain is a groundbreaking guide to reversing chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Migraines, headaches, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable...

Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to be this way. You Are Not Your Pain reveals a simple set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that...

This paradigm-shattering book will free you from the forces that would turn you into a victim. It will lead you step by step through a simple process that will free you from the pain of the past and protect you from the pain of the future.

Before We Treat, We Must Understand Staying Sober Is Hard Millions of people suffer from alcoholism, and most of them don't even know it. Or perhaps, they just can't admit it. If you or somebody you know is suffering from alcoholism, it is important to act immediately. The effect of alcohol on the body and mind is significant. Alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction are serious, potentially lethal conditions. When it comes to overcoming alcoholism and alcohol dependence, the hardest part is understanding why. Maybe we've heard the personal drug stories, maybe we've read the personal memoirs, ...