Christiane Wolf

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain (eBook, ePUB)

A Doctor's Prescription for Natural Pain Relief

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Designed with the pain-sufferer in mind: radically clear, bite-size, evidence-based mindfulness and self-compassion strategies for relieving chronic pain

Pain can be a big, unwieldy box that we struggle to carry all day. But what if we could put down this box, unpack it, and tackle the contents one by one? Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain is Dr. Christiane Wolf's radically clear, evidence-based guide to relieving chronic pain with mindfulness, complete with twenty easy guided meditations and self-compassion practices, including:

• rewriting the pain story you tell yourself
• practicing loving acceptance of your body as it is
• mindfully working through negative emotions
• strengthening your inner and outer support systems.

Publisher's note: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain is an updated and revised edition of Outsmart Your Pain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798893030983
• Artikelnr.: 75601423

Autorenporträt

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD, is a physician turned mindfulness and compassion teacher and a senior teacher at InsightLA (InsightLA.org) in Los Angeles, California. She trains teachers and teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion to groups and individuals in the US and across Europe. With her medical background, one of her specialties is working with people who suffer from chronic illness and pain. Dr. Wolf is a lead teacher and program developer for the nationwide mindfulness facilitator training for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. Wolf is also a Buddhist teacher in the vipassana (insight) meditation tradition and has received teacher transmission from Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield. She is the coauthor, with Greg Serpa, of A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness. Dr. Wolf lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, MD
Introduction: An Opportunity to change your brain
1. Part 1: Caring for Yourself
2. You Are Not Your Pain
1. Meditation: You are not your pain
3. The Pain Story
1. Practice: Writing reflection on the pain story
2. Meditation: The pain story
4. The Box We Call Pain
1. Practice: Working with thoughts, sensations, and emotions
2. Meditation: Opening the box of pain: exploring sensations, thoughts,
and emotions
5. Self-Compassion for Pain
1. Meditation: Self-compassion for pain
6. Part 2: Making Peace
7. Ending the War with Your Body
1. Meditation: Kindness body scan
8. Finding Your Internal Support Group
1. Meditation: Shared humanity: calling up the internal support group
9. Collecting Pearls
1. Practice: Collecting pearls
2. Meditation: Yes, and...
10. Part 3: Handling Big Emotions
11. The Dark Clouds of Depression
1. Meditation: Safe and pain free in the body
12. The Fear of Making Grief Real
1. Meditation: Being with grief
13. Numbing Out
1. Meditation: Urge surfing
14. Anger is a Mixed Bag
1. Meditation: Safely exploring anger
15. Freeing Yourself from the Prison of Resentment
1. Meditation: Forgiveness
16. Part 4: The Pain of Connecting and Disconnecting
17. Dealing with Ignorance
1. Meditation: Dealing with hurtful remarks
18. Loving Someone with Chronic Pain
1. Meditation: Equanimity: every person is on their own life's journey
19. Finding Your People
1. Meditation: Finding strength and joy in connections with others
20. Part 5: Shifting Perspective
21. The Comparing Mind
1. Meditation: Releasing your comparing mind
22. Making Meaning
1. Making meaning: silver lining backward and forward
23. The Paradox of Doing Nothing
1. Meditation: Doing nothing
24. The Big Picture
1. Meditation: The big picture
25. Stop Trying to Get Better
1. Meditation: OK as you are
Epilogue: Closing Thoughts
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author