How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness
β Scribed by Toni Bernhard
- Publisher
- Wisdom Publications
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1614292639
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are sufferingβand 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
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Tools for navigating the strains illness can place on relationships
Several chapters are directed toward family and friends of the chronically ill,...
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- Concrete advice for negotiating the everyday hurdles of medical appointments, household chores, and social obligations
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