Living Beyond Your Pain: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain

Here is an approach to living with chronic pain unlike any you’ve seen before, one that breaks through pain to help you live the rich and full life you deserve. Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), one of the most promising and fastest growing psychotherapies in use today, this book breaks with conventional notions of pain management, the traditional “feel good” approaches—including the use of pain-killing medication—that work to prevent painful sensations.

But the ACT approach to living with pain is different. It helps you recognize pain as an event in your life that doesn’t need to interfere with the way you live. In fact, attempts to avoid pain can often cause more harm than good, both to your body and to your peace of mind. By accepting and learning to live with pain, you can limit the control it exerts over your life. Mindfulness exercises, in particular, can help you transform pain from a life-defining preoccupation to a simple experience. From this strong position, you can make choices that will lead you to the life you’ve always wanted. Committed action is the way to make it happen.

Use this step-by-step program to:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain
• Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain, Second Edition: A Step-by-Step Guide
• The Pain Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Life (APA Lifetools)
• Managing Chronic Pain: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
• Managing Pain Before It Manages You, Fourth Edition
• CBT for Chronic Pain and Psychological Well-Being: A Skills Training Manual Integrating DBT, ACT, Behavioral Activation and Motivational Interviewing
• Learning ACT: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists
• You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Restore Well-Being---An Eight-Week Program
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Second Edition: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change