Creating a Positive Relationship with Chronic Pain

Aired Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 2:00 PM ET

Creating a Positive Relationship with Chronic Pain

As someone who understands the fear, sadness, and isolation of living with chronic pain first-hand, Sarah offers a refreshing and unusual approach to managing and healing chronic pain that includes creating a positive relationship with pain, recognizing and releasing emotional challenges, and using awareness and breath to ease pain.

About the Guest: Sarah Anne Shockley

Sarah Anne Shockley is the author of The Pain Companion. In the Fall of 2007, she contracted Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS), which is a collapse of the area between the clavicles and first ribs, and has lived with debilitating nerve pain ever since.

She has been a columnist for Pain News Network and is currently a regular contributor to The Mighty, a 1.5 million–member online community for those living with chronic illness and pain. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Website: http://www.ThePainCompanion.com

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