How to Stay Sane in Pain

How to Stay Sane in Pain
Author: Karen Drennan-McEwan
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1982220503

It’s estimated that 1.5 million Americans, nearly five million people worldwide, have some form of lupus. Current data suggest it’s more common than cystic fibrosis, leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis combined. At present, the disease is unfamiliar to most and is widely misunderstood. This leads to high levels of misdiagnosis, belated diagnosis, or misdiagnosis that is potentially life-threatening. It could be a leading “sleeper” disease of modern times, with people suffering unacknowledged and untreated. In How to Stay Sane in Pain, author Karen Drennan-McEwan clarifies the key symptoms of the disease, which include chronic pain, and explains how it is currently diagnosed and treated. She offers a look at its history, medications, and their main side effects. From the author’s perspective of someone who suffers personally from lupus, as well as other patients’ testimonies, this guide describes how to achieve resilience and calm despite the disease. Drennan-McEwan offers a step-by-step mind-body approach, an approach rooted in the author’s experience of a massive lupus flare and utilizing her training as a counselor and psychotherapist.

Self-Care Hacks

Self-Care Hacks
Author: Margherita Kotowski
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2021-04-03
Genre:
ISBN:

This is a self-help book for chronic pain sufferers. It was written by someone who suffers from debilitating pain and needs to deal with it daily. The book's main emphasis is on learning to come to terms with suffering and deal with it in such a manner that your mental health and peace of mind are prioritized. Themes such as acceptance, responsibility, and thought management are explored in an empathic kind way that is sympathetic to the unique difficulties of the person suffering from chronic pain. The principal aim of the book is to enable the reader to convert suffering with pain to the management of pain. If you are looking for a practical and understanding book about how to understand and live with it the often hidden mental anguish of chronic pain then this is the book for you.

Self Care Ideas Buzzfeed

Self Care Ideas Buzzfeed
Author: Venita Fehlinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2021-04-03
Genre:
ISBN:

This is a self-help book for chronic pain sufferers. It was written by someone who suffers from debilitating pain and needs to deal with it daily. The book's main emphasis is on learning to come to terms with suffering and deal with it in such a manner that your mental health and peace of mind are prioritized. Themes such as acceptance, responsibility, and thought management are explored in an empathic kind way that is sympathetic to the unique difficulties of the person suffering from chronic pain. The principal aim of the book is to enable the reader to convert suffering with pain to the management of pain. If you are looking for a practical and understanding book about how to understand and live with it the often hidden mental anguish of chronic pain then this is the book for you.

Sane in Pain

Sane in Pain
Author: Josephine Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781879082175

Personal pain management through mindfulness and planning. Includes tools and resources to help people in pain and their caregivers improve results from efforts to ease suffering. Healthcare strategies are devised by the reader and results tracked to inform decisions.

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness
Author: Ilana Jacqueline
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1626256012

“An important antidote to the dogmatic ‘kale and vitamins’ tone of most ‘self-help’ literature.” —Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, senior writer, New York magazine Popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline offers smart and savvy advice, humor, and practical tips for living with an invisible chronic illness. Do you live with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition? You may feel isolated, out of step, judged, lonely, or misunderstood—and that’s on top of dealing with the symptoms of your actual illness. Take heart. You are not alone, although sometimes it can feel that way. Written by a blogger who suffers from an invisible chronic illness, Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness offers peer-to-peer support to help you stay sane, be your own advocate, and get back to living your life. This compelling guide is written for anyone suffering with an illness no one can see—such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), Lyme disease, lupus, dysautonomia, or even multiple sclerosis (MP). This book will tell you everything you need to know about living with a complicated, invisible condition—from how to balance sex, dating, and relationships to handling work and school with unavoidable absences. You’ll also learn to navigate judg-y or skeptical relatives and strangers and—most importantly—manage your medical care. Suffering from a chronic illness doesn’t mean you can’t live an active, engaged life. This book will show you how.

Staying Sane in a Crazy World

Staying Sane in a Crazy World
Author: Sherwin T. Wine
Publisher: IISHJ-NA
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: 9780964801615

The author provides ten steps which answer such fundamental questions as "What is happiness?" "What does it mean to be ethical in a world that is less than ethical?" and "How can I find the strength I need to cope with the problems of my life?"

How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness
Author: Toni Bernhard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1614292639

Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering--and those who care for them. 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 readers 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. Benefit from: • Mindfulness exercises to mitigate physical and emotional pain • Concrete advice for negotiating the everyday hurdles of medical appointments, household chores, and social obligations • Tools for navigating the strains illness can place on relationships Several chapters are directed toward family and friends of the chronically ill, helping them to understand what their loved one is going through and how they can help. Humorous and empathetic, Bernhard shares her own struggles and setbacks with unflinching honesty, offering invaluable support in the search to find peace and well-being.

Life Disrupted

Life Disrupted
Author: Laurie Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0802779735

Twenty-seven-year-old Laurie Edwards is one of 125 million Americans who have a chronic illness, in her case a rare genetic respiratory disease. Because of medical advances in the treatment of serious childhood diseases, 600,000 chronically ill teens enter adulthood every year who decades ago would not have survived-they and people diagnosed in adulthood face the same challenges of college, career, and starting a family as others in their twenties and thirties, but with the added circumstance of having chronic illness. Life Disrupted is a personal and unflinching guide to living well with a chronic illness: managing your own health care without letting it take over your life, dealing with difficult doctors and frequent hospitalizations, having a productive and satisfying career that accommodates your health needs, and nurturing friendships and a loving, committed relationship regardless of recurring health problems. Laurie Edwards also addresses the particular needs of people who have more than one chronic illness or who are among the twenty-five million Americans with a rare disorder. She shares her own story and the experiences of others with chronic illness, as well as advice from life coaches, employment specialists, and health professionals. Reading Life Disrupted is like having a best friend and mentor who truly does know what you're going through.

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Author: Elif Shafak
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2020-08-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1782837280

'Elegant ... calm and generous' Mary Beard, Guardian The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 One of the Guardian's 'Best Books to Inspire Compassion' One of Independent's Books of the Month A Cosmopolitan 'Revolutionary Read' Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So, how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this age of division? In this powerful, uplifting plea for conscious optimism, Booker Prize-nominated novelist and activist Elif Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to bring us together. In the process, she reveals how listening to each other can nurture democracy, empathy and our faith in a kinder and wiser future.

Letting Go of Worry

Letting Go of Worry
Author: Linda Mintle
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0736941355

Respected author, speaker, and counselor Dr. Linda Mintle confesses that for years she believed worry was an inevitable byproduct of our modern, busy lives. But as she explored God’s Word for guidance, she discovered that worry isn’t supposed to be managed. It’s supposed to be released completely. Through personal and biblical examples, Mintle reveals reasons and ways for readers to rethink their core beliefs as they surrender worry to God and discover the spiritual roots of worry what to do when anxious thoughts arise how to have peace about their health, job, money, and relationships practical ways to cultivate a truly worry-free life the biblical secret to lasting contentment With godly instruction, Scriptures for meditation, and the hope of a renewed perspective, readers can let go of worry and embrace a transformed life of peace, forgiveness, and faith.