Sarah Anne ShockleyHealing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.
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I believe that healing severe or chronic pain also includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life. This quote is from a book called "Embracing Our Pain: How to Live with Chronic Pain and Prepare for the Journey Ahead" by Dr. David H. Barlow and Marisa Peer.
The book explains that we need to learn how to live with chronic pain and that we need to learn how to "prepare for the journey ahead." This quote encourages us to see pain as a part of life, not as something that should be avoided. In other words, it allows us to not only accept the fact that pain is part of life but it lets us accept those things which cause those pains. The idea of this quote is that by accepting those things which cause those pains, we can deal with them instead of avoiding them or running from them.
Source: The Pain Companion: Practical Tools For Living With & Moving Beyond Chronic Pain
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