Chronic Illness

Engaging and insightful, Pain Management and You: A Practical Approach to Living with Chronic Pain and Illness integrates new perspectives and ideas that will assist the listener's healing and recovery. People around the world struggle with chronic pain management, chronic pain syndrome, and live each day with pain and suffering. This audiobook seeks to help each and every chronic pain patient. If you suffer from chronic pain and want to live your dreams, look no further.

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ...

If you’ve struggled with stress or burnout, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Many health-conscious adults want practical, natural tools to care for themselves and their families—without relying on meds or complicated routines. The Vagus Nerve Solution for Holistic Wellness is your clear, science-backed guide to activating your body’s built-in calm switch: the vagus nerve. With just a few intentional minutes a day, you can shift from frazzled to focused—and from worn-out to well-rested.

Discover the surprising connection between our gut microbiome and the health of the planet--and learn how you hold humanity's future in your hands--with a visionary physician as your guide. Chronic disease, environmental destruction, and emotional stress are pervasive symptoms of modern society...

Research over the last few decades shows that many of us – sufferers of chronic pain and health practitioners alike – are victims of a trick of the nervous system. Where we believe that pain has its root in a damaged body, it is the brain that prolongs the hurting after the body has healed. Paul Biegler, a science journalist and former doctor who has been on his own pain journey, investigates the true source of chronic pain – our brain’s so-called neuroplasticity – and emerging therapies that take advantage of that neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and end the suffering.

To the world's public health authorities, Covid-19 would either be a deadly disease for some, or it would be a simple respiratory illness for most—cleared up in a couple of weeks. But then tens of millions around the world got sick and stayed sick. With scientists and doctors caught off guard, these patients often found solace only in themselves, organizing support groups across continents while ill in bed. An innovative band of patients researched the disease themselves, flipping the script and illustrating a new paradigm for research.

Optimize your health with these 175+ quick, actionable ways to boost your immune system and beat the common cold every season. From taking a day off of work to stay in bed to having to run out to the store for last minute medicine that you were sure you had, no one enjoys being sick. But what if...

Here, in their own words, are seven children who confronted life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, sickle cell anemia, disability, and AIDS. Ranging in age from 7 to 17, these children from different backgrounds and with different personalities, share uncommon courage, a vibrant spirit, and piercing candor and eloquence about how to seize life, to glorify it, and be grateful for its gifts. Through poems written at Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp and conversations with loved ones, they reveal their attitudes towards life, illness, remission, religion, family, and friends.

In this audiobook you'll learn everything you need to know to prevent and reduce inflammation and improve your health by following the anti-inflammatory diet. You'll discover what chronic inflammation is and how to stay healthy and avoid all the problems it causes. You'll also find a detailed list of foods that are good for your health, and that you must include in your anti-inflammatory diet, along with the affect each one will have on your body.

This short, informative audiobook gives you all the details you need to know about sleep apnea, how it can affect you, and most importantly, how you can beat it!

In this inspiring memoir, Emily Falcon chronicles her lifelong journey with a congenital cardiac condition. In 1982, at seven weeks old, she had a heart attack that destroyed 40 percent of the left side of her heart. This was her entry into a world of multiple cardiac procedures, surgeries, hospitalizations, and a later diagnosis of glaucoma. Balancing these serious conditions defined her life.

Written by members of the Chronic Pain Anonymous 12-step fellowship, Stories of Hope presents the tools and principles of the 12 steps as catalysts for emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation. Each of the courageous men and women who contributed to this collection shares their journey from despair to hope.

Are you ready to explore a natural remedy that has the power to transform your health? In this groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. Dexter X. Freeman, a leading expert in integrative health and cellular medicine, uncovers the remarkable potential of Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO)—a versatile and scientifically proven compound that offers safe and effective relief from pain, inflammation, and chronic ailments.

"Beautiful." —Sarah Jessica Parker "The best thing you'll read this year." —Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in "The Pit”—a delirious state of semiconsciousness—and the improbable...

Chronic pain sucks. It can hijack your life and leave you feeling scared, depressed, and lonely. Pain that rarely goes away impacts your relationships, your work, and your mental health. Yet doctors frequently neglect to mention these critical aspects of pain, leaving you to navigate them alone.

Chair Yoga Therapy for Pain Relief and Mobility is a soothing, step-by-step guide to rebuilding strength, improving flexibility, and easing pain—all while sitting in a chair. Designed especially for adults over 40, and those managing arthritis, fibromyalgia, or post-surgery recovery, these gentle routines help you move better, breathe deeper, and reconnect with your body at a pace that feels safe and empowering.

As many as 2.5 million Americans suffer from ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia), devastating chronic illnesses that to date has no test for diagnosis. A lesser-known condition, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, considered to be a genetic connective tissue disease, affects every system of the body, particularly the nervous system. These debilitating diseases can be so difficult to properly diagnose that patients, often bedridden with pain, exhaustion, and many other symptoms, go through further hell when they are not believed that they’re sick.

Motherhood can often feel overwhelming and isolating, but for moms with a chronic illness, those feelings are often intensified. When your life is a constant battle with pain, fatigue, and isolation, it's easy to lose sight of any joy in your life. Wife and mother Hannah Wingert knows this all too well. After finally being diagnosed with a chronic illness following the birth of her fourth child, Hannah has had to come to terms with her diagnosis and to learn to be a wife and mother in the midst of her invisible illness.

Back Pain DIY Pain Relief is a book conceived during my journey with pain. What lies within are anecdotes, observations, and instructions on how to reduce back pain. These lessons were hard-won, but won indeed. You follow me on my journey from youthful mistakes to the adult aftermath. We will travel along with shared observations and lessons from the professionals who helped and instructed me down the path of pain reduction, then how to take back (no pun intended) my life from pain's grip. Please join me on the path to pain reduction.

For those who care for chronically ill children, a new understanding of hope that equips adults to better nurture pediatric hope among sick kids—articulated by the children themselves As anyone with a chronic illness knows, hope can sometimes be hard to come by. For parents and caregivers of...