100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness


Book Description

Managing chronic illness demands constant mindfulness and management. It's a process that constantly evolves over a lifetime. 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness provides readers with one hundred different methods for accomplishing this task, offering personal examples that are humorous, heartfelt, and insightful. Anyone who lives with chronic illness or knows someone who does will benefi t from reading this honest and entertaining book.




Living Life to the Fullest - Creative Coping Strategies for Managing Chronic Illness


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Self-care tips and strategies that encourage, inspire and empower the chronically ill to reduce feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, manage pain, find new meaning and purpose in life, decrease feelings of powerlessness, improve self-esteem and thrive in spite of symptoms.




Chronic Resilience


Book Description

Take control of your life and wellness with this volume of practical advice, true stories, and journaling prompts for those living with chronic conditions. Chronic illnesses come with unique types of stress, from negotiating day to day activities to dealing with friends and family who don’t understand. In Chronic Resilience, certified life coach and chronic condition sufferer Danea Horn offers techniques and tools to help you rebound from the pressures of having a body that's doing things you wish you could control. Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents. Each chapter contains stories and advice from women dealing with chronic conditions ranging from cancer to organ transplant, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), MS, Cushing's disease, diabetes, and others. This guide offers advice on how to:Stop pushing yourself so hardUse research to empower—not frighten—yourselfLet yourself be pissedTrain your troops in how to care for youCultivate focus and flexibilityFind things to be grateful forFocus on what you can do, not what you can't




Self Management of Long Term Health Conditions


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This book is filled with hundreds of proven tips, helpful suggestions, and concrete strategies to deal with chronic illness, to manage emotions, and to live a productive life. Here you will find suggestions for setting goals, making decisions, and finding resources and support. It offers sound information about exercise, healthy eating, intimacy and sex, and communication with friends, family, and caregivers. There is also information on managing medications and an important new chapter on making treatment decisions. Originally based on a 5-year study conducted at Stanford University and modified in 2007 for the U.K., this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and people with chronic conditions all over the world. "Self-Management of Long-Term Health Conditions" has helped thousands of people with chronic illness to fulfil their greatest possible physical potential and to once again derive pleasure from life. Its simple goal is to help anyone with a chronic illness to live a productive, healthy life.




The Art of Getting Well


Book Description

A majority of chronic illnesses have no medical cure. The best therapy, asserts the author, is self-care. This comprehensive guide suggests healthy behaviors and holistic approaches while acknowledging the barriers people face in applying them.




The Art of Getting Well


Book Description

A majority of chronic illnesses have no medical cure. The best therapy, asserts the author, is self-care. This comprehensive guide suggests healthy behaviors and holistic approaches while acknowledging the barriers people face in applying them.




Chronic Resilience


Book Description

Take control of your life and wellness with this volume of practical advice, true stories, and journaling prompts for those living with chronic conditions. Chronic illnesses come with unique types of stress, from negotiating day to day activities to dealing with friends and family who don’t understand. In Chronic Resilience, certified life coach and chronic condition sufferer Danea Horn offers techniques and tools to help you rebound from the pressures of having a body that's doing things you wish you could control. Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents. Each chapter contains stories and advice from women dealing with chronic conditions ranging from cancer to organ transplant, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), MS, Cushing's disease, diabetes, and others. This guide offers advice on how to:Stop pushing yourself so hardUse research to empower—not frighten—yourselfLet yourself be pissedTrain your troops in how to care for youCultivate focus and flexibilityFind things to be grateful forFocus on what you can do, not what you can't