Chronic Pain Mind Body

Can you really cure chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or therapy? Surprisingly, often the answer is yes. While chronic pain can have a physical cause, this book, written by a leading UK physiotherapist and chronic pain specialist, reveals how very real, even debilitating, pain can frequently be caused by our brain in response to repressed or avoided emotions as a result of current and even past experiences. This process is at the root of many common complaints.

Does agony define your daily experiences? Have overactive nerves drained you of energy? Are you told you’re crazy because your doctor does not understand your pain? Working at one of the largest rehabilitation facilities in the country, pain management expert Dr. Evan Parks has 32 years of experience helping people find hope and freedom. Now, he’s here to teach you how to reclaim command of your mind and body so you can wake up refreshed and ready to conquer your goals.

Do you regularly experience chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, gut issues, or other symptoms of chronic stress? The Mind-Body Cure will teach you how to manage your stress hormones and eliminate chronic stress in seven simple steps.

Learn how to relieve chronic pain for good with this life-changing New York Times bestselling book. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause...

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is known to be a condition in which people usually have hypermobile joints and stretchy skin. This is what physicians generally look for when they are considering EDS diagnoses. The truth is that EDS can present in many different ways. There are many different types and forms of EDS, and they affect very different parts of a person's body. A physician who looks for only two signs is missing the big picture of the family history and the patient's symptoms in relation to an EDS diagnosis.

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?

‘A powerful, honest, and necessary read. This book will help you reclaim your trust in your body and yourself.’ - Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and bestselling author. In this groundbreaking, empowering book, leading health psychologist Dr Sula Windgassen explores the mind-body-environment...

The stress of painful past experiences is more than just a memory. It can cause you to avoid certain people or places, affect your emotions, even your trust in people. This makes the most important relationships in life harder to maintain. You’ve likely gotten this far by creating your own coping mechanisms. Maybe even done the work of understanding your past. But we can understand our past mentally, and still feel the pain of trauma. Because the body doesn’t forget. Some pain has to be worked through at a deeper level.

Immerse yourself in self-discovery and personal growth, even if the concept of somatic therapy is brand new to you! Somatic therapy might just be the powerful holistic solution you've been searching for. It advocates awareness of the mind-body connection to promote overall mental health and well-being. In this life-changing guide, "Somatic Therapy for Beginners," you'll take the first step toward empowering discovery and transformative healing at your own pace.

This audiobook is designed to take you through a journey of healing for managing your chronic pain and elevating your life. It starts with some information about chronic pain and an overview of different conditions that cause chronic pain. This is followed by describing the impact of chronic pain on life, and how to manage it through elevating your life force with healthy living skills and mental well-being practices.

Hypnosis has been extensively studied in the field of pain relief, and found to be very effective if practiced regularly. In this short, focused program, hypnotist Maggie Staiger guides the listener in the technique of hypnotic pain reduction, using the technique of walling off the painful area, then fading the pain. The hypnosis is meant to be used for chronic pain that has been diagnosed by a doctor as such, and mustn't be tried on pain that has not been investigated by a medical professional.

Maybe you’ve tried similar techniques without success or are skeptical about alternative health approaches. This book is designed to help you get past those doubts, offering a supportive, step-by-step guide that anyone can follow to improve their mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Pain is how the body communicates disorders to our mind/brain. This audiobook reverses that concept and explores simple concepts that can help you manage pain so that your suffering does not take over your life. This is the seventh audiobook in this series. The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of ten short-listen audiobooks that review latest thinking and research findings in integrative medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century.

If you’re living with trauma, PTSD, or anxiety, you’ve probably tried all kinds of treatments. Maybe they helped, but the struggle continues. If chronic pain has been your story, you might think it’s something you’ll have to endure forever. But it’s not! Somatic therapy teaches you to tune into your body’s sensations, guiding you toward lasting relief. Your body remembers trauma just as vividly as your mind, and by connecting with these physical sensations, you can finally process and release the pain holding you back.

With humor, empathy, and expertise, a Black, femme, disabled, and neurodivergent physical therapist retraces their journey through a weaponized fitness culture, sharing an alternative path to honor all bodies and needs. An inclusive, full-color guide to improving mobility, building strength, and...