The chronic pain experience is increasingly becoming a common experience for many people around the world. What is known about the experience of pain is that suffering is compounded by not only the physical sensation, but also the emotional pain that is inherent in a long term illness. Multidisciplinary pain clinics are working to address all aspects of a patient's chronic pain. Different modalities are being considered as treatment; however, there...

"We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being-but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help medical patients with ongoing pain conditions who were not responding to conventional therapies. Since then, the practices of MBSR have become...

At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She's given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous...

"Explore the methods of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and learn why it is successful and how it can be of value in your life"--Container.

"Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out. Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually...

The author describes how, after surviving a devastating car crash and recovering in seemingly miraculous fashion, she awoke one morning with her blissful facade shattered as she began to realize she never properly healed and was living on borrowed time.