Outsmart Your Pain : Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind

“Mindfulness and compassion practices should be in everybody’s toolbox for a happier and healthier life. [This] book is essential reading for providers who treat chronic illnesses and for those suffering from them.”—Arianna Huffington Pain can be a big, unwieldy box that we struggle to carry all day. But what if we could put down this box, unpack it, and tackle the contents one by one? Outsmart Your Pain is Dr. Christiane Wolf’s radically clear, evidence-based guide to relieving chronic pain with mindfulness, complete with twenty easy guided meditations and self-compassion practices, including: rewriting the “pain story” you tell yourself practicing loving acceptance of your body as it is mindfully working through negative emotions strengthening your inner and outer support systems. By separating your pain from the stressful thoughts and troubled feelings that come with it, you can lay down your burden and live with joy. Radically clear, evidence-based mental strategies to relieve chronic pain Pain can be overwhelming. We tend to lump everything related to it—stressful thoughts, negative emotions, distracting sensations—into one big, unwieldy box that we struggle to carry all day. But what if we could put down this box, unpack it, and tackle the contents one by one? Outsmart Your Pain is Dr. Christiane Wolf’s transformative guide to finding relief with mindfulness. Easy, guided meditations reinforce each helpful strategy, including: rewriting the “pain story” you tell yourselfpracticing loving acceptance of your body as it ismindfully working through negative emotionsstrengthening your inner and outer support systems. By changing our brains little by little, day by day, we can leave behind the burden of our pain—and once we do, we’ll live fuller, freer, and more joyful lives. "Radically clear, evidence-based mental strategies and meditations to relieve chronic pain"-- Provided by publisher