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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 an…

Author: Bernhard, Toni

Place of Publication: Somerville, MA

Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: 337 pages

Subject: Coping with Chronic Illness; Chronic Illness; Chronic Pain

Abstract: 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.

ISBN: 9781614292487

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Call Number: EF 850 BER 2015

Copies

copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library			Available
copy 2 BC Children's and Women's Family Library			Available

Managing chronic pelvic pain through diet

https://bcch.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog114203

BC Women's Centre for Pelvic Pain & Endometriosis. [Vancouver, BC?]: BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre , 2015.

URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/ChronicPelvicPain-diet_2015_Nov.pdf

Material Type: Handout; Online

Regardless of whether your chronic pain includes endometriosis, IC, or IBS, or a combination of all of these, following an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce the intensity of the pain you are experiencing. It is also essential to include lifestyle changes, such as increased activity and exer…

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URL: http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/ChronicPelvicPain-diet_2015_Nov.pdf

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Corporate Author: BC Women's Centre for Pelvic Pain & Endometriosis

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher: BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: PDF file, 5 p.

Subject: Chronic Pain; Pain Control

Abstract: Regardless of whether your chronic pain includes endometriosis, IC, or IBS, or a combination of all of these, following an anti-inflammatory diet can help to reduce the intensity of the pain you are experiencing. It is also essential to include lifestyle changes, such as increased activity and exercise as well as stress reduction. Stress reduction helps to calm the nervous system, which can then reduce inflammation and pain.

Language: English

Material Type: Handout; Online

URLs

http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/ChronicPelvicPain-diet_2015_Nov.pdf