Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain

Introduction

I. Understanding Your Pain

1. Setting the Stage for Healing: Understanding Pain and Your Brain

2. Identifying Threats

3. Identifying Sources of Joy and Meaning

II. Reducing Threats and Finding Safety

4. Working with Pain Sensations and Thoughts: Mindfulness-Based and Cognitive Approaches

5. Addressing Trauma

6. Cultivating Healthy Relationships and Belonging

III. Finding Joy and Living Meaningfully

7. Savoring

8. Self-Compassion

9. Benefiting Others

10. Pursuing Meaning in Life

IV. Lowering Inflammation to Heal Chronic Pain

11. Eat to Live: Lower Inflammation with Food

12. Quiet the Alarm and Boost the Reward System with Good Sleep

13. It’s Safe to Move: Lowering Inflammation, Pain, and Fear While Boosting the Reward System

V. Widening the Lens: Building a Holistic Pain Self-Management Plan

14. Integrative Pain Care

15. Going Forward—with a Plan

My Integrative Pain Care Plan: For My Providers

Resources

References

Index

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