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My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain
Millions of people live with chronic pain and in approximately 20 per cent of cases, this leads to depression. But you can outsmart chronic pain, increase well-being and improve the quality of your life with this invaluable guide.
None of us are immune to pain. While it is vital to seek medical advice and a diagnosis – and treatment where possible – the benefits of learning to manage pain should not be underestimated.
•Is your chronic pain affecting your ability to enjoy life?
•Do you find it difficult to hold down a job or career?
•Are you finding you are still in pain despite taking painkillers?
•Do you feel it is time to take steps to help yourself?
Providing comprehensive 360-degree coverage of pain management, Rebecca Richmond shares the techniques that she used to overcome chronic pain. Using tools that actually work, you can now reduce pain and live a better life with these effective pain management solutions.
With all the tools for lasting, positive change, this is an essential read for sufferers and therapists or trainers looking to add proven techniques to their repertoire.
Simple and practical, this book is your partner against pain …
None of us are immune to pain. While it is vital to seek medical advice and a diagnosis – and treatment where possible – the benefits of learning to manage pain should not be underestimated.
•Is your chronic pain affecting your ability to enjoy life?
•Do you find it difficult to hold down a job or career?
•Are you finding you are still in pain despite taking painkillers?
•Do you feel it is time to take steps to help yourself?
Providing comprehensive 360-degree coverage of pain management, Rebecca Richmond shares the techniques that she used to overcome chronic pain. Using tools that actually work, you can now reduce pain and live a better life with these effective pain management solutions.
With all the tools for lasting, positive change, this is an essential read for sufferers and therapists or trainers looking to add proven techniques to their repertoire.
Simple and practical, this book is your partner against pain …
242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 30, 2013
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December 13, 2014
My husband is disabled and managing chronic pain is part of his life, so I picked up this title with great hopes and it provided a number of approaches I haven't seen elsewhere.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain isn't designed to replace a doctor's advice. It's intended to supplement that advice with specific strategies that worked for author Rebecca Richmond, who suffered some seven years of constant pain and who employed the devices herein to achieve not just pain reduction, but a return to an active and busy lifestyle.
Any who have suffered from lasting pain know what an achievement this is, lending credibility to the book's varied approaches and its promise that these different pain management strategies will actually work together to significantly change a sufferer's life.
And if this sounds miraculous, keep in mind that Rebecca Richmond is not talking 'cure', but 'management'. There IS a difference.
Chapters focus on this process by building a management profile of strategies that include meditation and other mind-body techniques. Right off the bat, Rebecca Richmond advises readers that the process is intended for the open-minded reader (and, having gone through any traditional management process, you'd think any struggling with chronic pain would harbor this willingness to try anything for relief).
The program is presented in a step-by-step series of chapters that build upon one another, creating stepping stones of techniques and explanations of the physical and mental challenges of chronic pain.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain points out that there is no single pathway to effective chronic pain management. Together, all these tools work - as Rebecca Richmond has proved with her own life experience. Individually, they are simply pieces and small tools contributing to the larger picture.
And that's why My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain needs to be read and absorbed in its entirety. From living 'in the moment' and recognizing physical (and mental) signs of well-being and symptoms of stress to fostering life-enhancing relationships and tackling fear, all the tools are here for lasting, positive change. More importantly, as Rebecca Richmond demonstrates through her own life adjustments, they work. All that's required is a willingness to foster flexibility, try new things, and use the many approaches contained in My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain, a workbook of hope and positive results.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain isn't designed to replace a doctor's advice. It's intended to supplement that advice with specific strategies that worked for author Rebecca Richmond, who suffered some seven years of constant pain and who employed the devices herein to achieve not just pain reduction, but a return to an active and busy lifestyle.
Any who have suffered from lasting pain know what an achievement this is, lending credibility to the book's varied approaches and its promise that these different pain management strategies will actually work together to significantly change a sufferer's life.
And if this sounds miraculous, keep in mind that Rebecca Richmond is not talking 'cure', but 'management'. There IS a difference.
Chapters focus on this process by building a management profile of strategies that include meditation and other mind-body techniques. Right off the bat, Rebecca Richmond advises readers that the process is intended for the open-minded reader (and, having gone through any traditional management process, you'd think any struggling with chronic pain would harbor this willingness to try anything for relief).
The program is presented in a step-by-step series of chapters that build upon one another, creating stepping stones of techniques and explanations of the physical and mental challenges of chronic pain.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain points out that there is no single pathway to effective chronic pain management. Together, all these tools work - as Rebecca Richmond has proved with her own life experience. Individually, they are simply pieces and small tools contributing to the larger picture.
And that's why My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain needs to be read and absorbed in its entirety. From living 'in the moment' and recognizing physical (and mental) signs of well-being and symptoms of stress to fostering life-enhancing relationships and tackling fear, all the tools are here for lasting, positive change. More importantly, as Rebecca Richmond demonstrates through her own life adjustments, they work. All that's required is a willingness to foster flexibility, try new things, and use the many approaches contained in My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain, a workbook of hope and positive results.
April 28, 2014
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain
Rebecca Richmond’s book provides strategies and coping tips for better pain management based on her own experience. My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain combines the concepts of mind, body and spirit, pointing to the relationship between people who are in pain with their body and mind.
The guide helps readers to understand pain and the power of mind. It also provides information on pain-relieving techniques, diet and exercise. Complete with details on support groups and forums, this book offers high-value advice for daily life. People in pain need to take responsibility for their mental and physical health.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain helps to change your lifestyle and together with medical treatment, it can be your partner against pain.
Here are a few tips that could help you on your journey to a healthy and happy life:
“Negative Emotions are a Pain”:
- don’t take everything on board
- learn to be flexible
- let things wait
- don’t try to change the world
- learn to be happy
- forget about perfection
- everything passes
- learn to be in the moment
- listen to your inner voice
- don’t waste energy bearing grudges
Did I convince you to read this magnificent book? I hope so.
Rebecca Richmond’s book provides strategies and coping tips for better pain management based on her own experience. My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain combines the concepts of mind, body and spirit, pointing to the relationship between people who are in pain with their body and mind.
The guide helps readers to understand pain and the power of mind. It also provides information on pain-relieving techniques, diet and exercise. Complete with details on support groups and forums, this book offers high-value advice for daily life. People in pain need to take responsibility for their mental and physical health.
My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain helps to change your lifestyle and together with medical treatment, it can be your partner against pain.
Here are a few tips that could help you on your journey to a healthy and happy life:
“Negative Emotions are a Pain”:
- don’t take everything on board
- learn to be flexible
- let things wait
- don’t try to change the world
- learn to be happy
- forget about perfection
- everything passes
- learn to be in the moment
- listen to your inner voice
- don’t waste energy bearing grudges
Did I convince you to read this magnificent book? I hope so.
April 22, 2016
I read this book to see if it would help my daughter who has a chronic illness. I think I will buy it for her. Its not that I haven't told her many of the things Ive read in this book, but if it comes from a different source, she may listen or it may resonate with her.
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