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How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

A Mindful Guide

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Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering—and 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
  • Tools for navigating the strains illness can place on relationships

    Several chapters are directed toward family and friends of the chronically ill, helping them to understand what their loved one is going through and how they can help.

    Humorous and empathetic, Bernhard shares her own struggles and setbacks with unflinching honesty, offering invaluable support in the search to find peace and well-being.
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      • Library Journal

        July 1, 2015

        In this comprehensive book, an empathetic Bernhard (How To Be Sick; How To Wake Up) offers guidance to those whose lives have been turned upside down by illness. Through the author's own struggles, she has found that mindfulness--paying attention with care--can assist people suffering from pain through feelings of isolation and loneliness, ease physical and mental unrest, and enjoy life. Practical suggestions range from asking for help to getting a good night's sleep. Bernhard devotes a valuable chapter to caregivers, providing advice as well as a "not-to-do" list. VERDICT Excellent firsthand instruction for anyone dealing with a debilitating illness.

        Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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