Trapped by Chronic Pain? Break Free and Take Back Your Life
A different way to think about chronic pain
Evidence-informed strategies, practical ideas, and lived experience to help you understand chronic pain, build confidence, and move toward a fuller life.
If you've tried countless treatments, searched for answers, and still feel trapped in the cycle of pain, you're not alone.
Trapped by Chronic Pain? Break Free and Take Back Your Life combines modern pain science, practical self-management strategies, encouragement, and lived experience to help you better understand pain, rebuild confidence and function, and regain control of your life.
GO TO AMAZON →The book explores why pain can persist long after an injury has healed, how stress, emotions, and the nervous system can influence pain, and what you can do to reduce its impact and make your life bigger than the pain.
It's not about pushing through the pain. It's not about ignoring it. And it's not another temporary fix or false promise.
Consider these questions - not as an accusation, but as a reflection.
- How many doctors or other healthcare providers have you seen regarding the pain?
- How many X-rays or other tests have you had to diagnose the pain and find a potential cause and cure?
- How many pills, injections, surgeries, and other interventions have you tried to relieve the pain?
- How much money have you spent?
- How much time have you spent?
- Is pain holding you back?
- Are you living the life you want?
- Are you ready to take a more active role in managing chronic pain?
The information in the book may be appropriate for you if:
You're living with chronic pain
You've had pain for longer than three months or beyond the normal healing time.
You're searching for answers
You've seen multiple clinicians and are searching for another way to understand chronic pain.
Conventional treatments haven't been enough
You continue to experience pain despite treatments such as medications, injections, or surgeries.
Pain is affecting your life
Your mood, activities, relationships, or quality of life are being negatively affected by pain.
You want to understand your symptoms
You want a clearer understanding of chronic pain and the factors that can influence the experience of pain.
You're ready to take an active role
You want to learn and practice new strategies and skills to change how you approach chronic pain and live your life despite the pain.
What you'll learn
- An easy-to-understand explanation of pain to help you better understand the pain you're feeling and why you're feeling it.
- The differences between acute pain and chronic pain.
- The value of changing the pain narrative and treatment expectations to reduce suffering.
- Why a passive biomedical approach may not address everything involved in chronic pain.
- Why pain doesn't have to go away before you can do things and live your life to the fullest.
- The value of taking an active role in self-managing chronic pain.
- The potential value of accepting chronic pain.
- Self-management skills and strategies that you can use to help take back your life.
What you'll get
A practical perspective
A book written to be understood by someone who has lived with chronic pain and experienced many of the same challenges.
Strategies you can adapt
Suggestions for adapting and personalizing the strategies to suit your unique situation.
Hope and confidence
Hope, confidence, and motivation to improve your quality of life and change your experience of pain.
Practical self-management
Ideas and strategies you can begin applying to your own experience of chronic pain.
A broader view of pain
A biopsychosocial perspective that looks beyond tissues and symptoms to the many factors that can influence pain.
A path forward
Encouragement to move from feeling trapped by pain toward greater function, confidence, and participation in life.
Book chapters
What you won't get
- Medical advice. I'm not a medical professional. The content is a high-level overview for informational and educational purposes and should be used alongside the support of healthcare professionals.
- Guarantees. Chronic pain often has no single cause or miracle cure. Progress looks different for everyone. Pain rehabilitation is not simply about reducing symptoms; it can also involve improving mood and sleep, increasing functional ability, and enhancing overall quality of life.
- A heavy discussion of specific pain conditions. The focus is on broader principles and strategies that can be applied across different chronic pain experiences.
- A quick or easy fix. Meaningful change can require work, an open mind, practice, and changes in how you think about, feel about, and respond to pain.
- Pressure to buy other products or services.
Ready to explore the book?
Take the next step toward understanding chronic pain, developing practical self-management skills, and making your life bigger than the pain.
Paperback: $14.99 USD | eBook: $8.99 USD
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