A practical and compassionate guidebook based on the author’s 8 years of managing debilitating nerve pain. Contains a wealth of insights and wisdom to mitigate the impact living with chronic pain has on well being, self-image and relationships.
How do we live with chronic pain and not fall into depression and hopelessness? How can we take this journey with less hardship and create more ease and well-being in the midst of persistent pain? Living with chronic pain is a very demanding path on all levels: physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. It is relentless and unforgiving, and tests our ability to cope with extreme challenges on a daily basis.
The Pain Companion is a practical and compassionate guidebook to living with and moving beyond chronic pain based on the author’s 8 years of managing debilitating nerve pain. It contains a wealth of insights and wisdom to help mitigate the impact that living with chronic pain has on well being, self-image and relationships. Includes 33 specific ways to alleviate pain’s emotional and mental stresses and 11 easy meditative exercises to help change the relationship with pain from enemy to ally in healing.
Professional Reviews
Valuable Advice for Making Life With Pain Easier
This is a very important book. It offers valuable advice and ideas for making living with pain easier that can only come from someone who has lived through it. I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone experiencing chronic pain, and suggest that practitioners read it to gain a greater understanding of the challenges their patients in pain must live with. - Dr. Tracy A. Newkirk, MD, Neurology
A Place Where Hope and Possibilities Live
The Pain Companion is a practical, insightful, and compassionate guide into and through the lives of chronic pain sufferers. It is beautifully written and sensitive. For those who have searched to make sense of chronic pain, here is a packet of understanding - a place where hope and possibilities lives. - Amber Wolf, PhD, Holistic Science and Alternative Therapies
A Comprehensive and Profound Look at the Meaning and Experience of Pain
The Pain Companion is a long awaited book that offers important insights into the world of chronic pain. Shockley shares beautifully written prose about her personal journey of living with a severe spinal injury that forces her into a life she had never imagined. Through the letters she writes to Pain, her encouragement to follow one's own healing path, and her presentation of exercises that anyone can follow, she gives a comprehensive and profound look at the meaning within the experience of pain. I highly recommend this book for anyone, especially for people living with pain, caregivers and medical and rehabilitation professionals. - Thaïs Mazur, PhD, Integrative Medicine
