Chronic Disease

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from ten years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia, amputation, cancer, severe burns, HIV/AIDs, and neuro-muscular disorders arising from accidents, injury, and disease. "Rick Ritter captures the depth of the emotional pain in the aftermath of physical loss and disability."...

“Drain ThatPain” is a holistic energy technique I created for chronic pain elimination. You read it correctly - pain elimination. This is my second book on this technique. The book and the documentary, called Drain ThatPain, educate and motivate you to let go of emotional and physical chronic pain while accepting that loving intention is the most powerful force in the world! Obviously, there are no guarantees, but thousands of people have let go of pain with DrainThatPain practitioners and other pain elimination methodologies all over the world!

Is your life filled with overwhelming stress? Are you constantly lethargic, tired, and fatigued? Do you wake up just as tired as you did going to sleep, despite getting enough rest? In this audiobook, you will learn all there is to know about adrenal fatigue syndrome and how it prevents your body from properly dealing with stressors.

Two brave people sacrificed much to bring the story of the Essiac herbal tea to the world. This natural, holistic alternative medicine remedy for cancer and other illnesses has benefited hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Essiac herbal tea was discovered among the Chippewa (Ojibway) tribe in 1922. Herbal Shamans had historically used a blend of 4 herbs to treat disease among members of the tribe. A Canadian doctor assigned his nurse, Rene Caisse, to assist a Chippewa lady who was dying of cancer. The lady took Essiac tea and recovered completely. Rene then launched a research ...

As a survivor of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) caused by a drunk driver, Bonnie Lester intimately understands the challenge of living with persistent pain. From countless doctor’s visits to the missed moments with loved ones to shelling out thousands for expensive pain treatments, Bonnie lived the battle for decades. With a combination of neuroplasticity techniques, lifestyle medicine, and her innovative AIM (Affirmation, Image, Management) program, Bonnie astonished doctors by getting off the opioids, retrained her brain to significantly reduce pain, and reclaimed her life.

Nobody should have to live in chronic pain—including you! Don’t let another minute of your life be consumed by physical and mental suffering. Discover how to transform your pain today!

Six out of 10 Americans live with at least one chronic disease. The impact is felt in blood, sweat, and dollars. The average person suffers in silence, often relying on prescription drugs to mitigate their symptoms. Self-care advocates, however, actively work to prevent chronic conditions and reduce their risk factors. Whether you’re interest in chronic disease prevention or risk reduction, now is the time for self-care using a holistic approach. Get this book and become a self-care advocate by implementing our Self-Care Seven protocol.

Polycystic liver disease is a rare disease involving multiple cysts on the liver. Less than 200,000 people in the United States have it, and most of them are women. When the daughter of medical journalist David Drum was diagnosed with polycystic liver disease, he found precious little basic information for patients, and none available in book form. After doing extensive research to help his daughter manage her disease, Drum condensed the information he found into a short, useful book. "Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients" contains basic medical information for people who wish...

Trauma, anxiety, chronic illness, and mental stress plague countless individuals, hindering their well-being and quality of life. The root causes of these challenges lie within the intricate workings of our vagus nerve. It’s time to shed some light on how you can harness its power and say goodbye to mental stressors forever!Through a blend of scientific explanations and practical applications, The Polyvagal Theory equips listeners with a deep understanding of the foundations that shape our interactions with others, the way we perceive and respond to emotions, and how we regulate what we feel.

As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. Countering a Gnosticism that pits body against spirit, Huska takes us on a journey of exploring how healing is not an escape from the limits of the body, but becoming whole as souls in bodies and bodies with souls. As chronic pain forces us to pay attention to our bodies' vulnerability, we come to embrace the fullness of our broken yet beautiful bodies. She helps us redefine what it means to find healing and wholeness.

Are you living with fibromyalgia? Are you tired of hopping from medication to medication and doctor to doctor without seeing any lasting results? Yoga isn't just a new exercise. It's part of a medical system that's been supporting conditions like fibromyalgia for more than 2,000 years. Inside this audiobook, you'll find the seven steps the author took that led to her recovery from chronic pain.

Are you ready to explore a natural remedy that has the power to transform your health? In this groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. Dexter X. Freeman, a leading expert in integrative health and cellular medicine, uncovers the remarkable potential of Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO)—a versatile and scientifically proven compound that offers safe and effective relief from pain, inflammation, and chronic ailments.

Dry skin brushing (or body brushing) is an old naturopathic technique with numerous benefits - not just cellulite elimination. It simply involves brushing the body all over with a firm brush. Why? Because it makes you look and feel absolutely amazing! It works as a detox by stimulating the lymphatic and blood systems, boosting metabolism, and improving elimination through the skin - the body's largest organ. Done incorrectly, a detox can make you feel awful - the side effects can be pretty rough.

Allie Cashel has suffered from chronic Lyme disease for 16 years - but much of the medical community refuses to recognize her symptoms as the result of infectious disease. In Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, Cashel paints a living portrait of what is often called post-treatment Lyme syndrome, featuring the stories of chronic Lyme patients from around the world and their struggle for recognition and treatment.

Did you now that the largest of our 12 cranial nerves is the vagus nerve? Did you also know that this autonomic-nervous-system related nerve, if stimulated in the right way, can reduce our body pain stress, inflammation, trauma, depression and abdominal plains? If you never heard about vagus nerves, which are usually referred to in the singular, they are the longest and maybe the most important autonomic nerves in human body. Approximately 80 percent of its nerve fibers drive information from the body to the brain.

In Optimizing Your Health, Emily Gold Mears shares years of research and knowledge to help others understand how they can become their own health advocate, modify their lifestyle to reduce their risk of chronic disease, and take a proactive role in their own healthcare. Gold Mears features real-life stories, clinical studies, the latest discoveries, and infographics to demonstrate what is hurting us and what can help us in our pursuit of a long, healthy life. This book curates a vast amount of health and wellness information and focuses on the most salient aspects.

Managing chronic illness is no laughing matter. It often hurts more than just physically, and that fact can have far-reaching consequences. Feelings of frustration with ongoing pain and fatigue can be difficult for those who are "not in your boat" to understand. Through fifty years of trial and error, I have discovered a combination of 7 simple habits that truly help me, and those closest to me, cope and find some balance as I manage daily, with illnesses such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and more recently, fibromyalgia.

By making a few simple, manageable changes to your diet, you may be able to reduce or fix your rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. Many foods contain powerful, natural anti-inflammatory properties to alleviate your RA symptoms. Because inflammation is the root of all pain, by reducing it, you will reduce the pain. This can ease swelling in your affected joints, allowing normal movement of your body part, and even help boost your brain function and improve circulation.

If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything, so I quit my college teaching job and went to learn healthcare myself. I want to share as much as I can with you so you can help yourself and your loved ones self-manage your conditions or at least be informed when discussing your problems with the healthcare community. For practical purposes, this book is focused on the most common neuromusculoskeletal chronic pain conditions: particularly conditions having a joint, tendon, ligament, or muscular component to them.

Research over the last few decades shows that many of us – sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike – are victims of a trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting after the body has healed. Paul Biegler, a science journalist and former doctor who has been on his own pain journey, investigates the true source of chronic pain – our brain’s so-called neuroplasticity – and emerging therapies that take advantage of that neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and end the suffering.