In Living beyond Pain, a physician and a therapist offer a whole person approach to pain management, addressing the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of pain and providing alternative strategies that don't rely on opioids. Through education, pain triumph stories, daily guided cognitive activity, and as-needed pain rescue techniques, readers will reprogram their neurologic pathways, increase functioning, and experience improvement in their symptoms....

"Pain, suffering, and stress can be intolerable, but it doesn't have to be this way. [This book presents a] set of mindfulness-based practices that you can incorporate into daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness"--