Musings of Pain from Celeste – Part Two

What a privilege to have wonderful people like you to support my writing. Without knowing it, you lift me up. For that, I am grateful. It isn’t always easy; I get it. When I write for others, I learn too. Supporting one another is necessary to keep all of us motivated to do the things necessary for living a balanced life, despite persistent, chronic pain and illness. I hope you find something you need in my musings.

In healing,,Celeste

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A Sampling of Musings

Is Chronic Pain a Disease? My Interview with Pain Specialist, Dr. Karl Hurst-Wicker, MD

The Painful Truth Documentary Is Here!

Partners, Friendships, Chronic Pain and Illness

Dry Eye and Chronic Pain

Taking up the Slack: Flares, Frets and Fibro
Criteria and Chaos: Diagnosing Fibromyalgia

Joint Hypermobility and Chronic Pain

Commanding Language, Conquering Dialogue: Perceptions and Pain

Marijuana and Chronic Pain-QA-Dr David Barton

A Spring Lesson on Mindfulness: Dealing with Pain and Illness

A Nervous System at Odds: Dysautonomia and Fibromyalgia  

A Profile of Chronic Pain: Q&A with Lacy Fowler, Arachnoiditis Delegate

“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, 

the stillness underneath the mental noise, 

the love and joy underneath the pain, 

is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

~Eckhart Tolle

Additional Reading:

A Sampling of Musings from Celeste - Part One

And more …

From my blog

Written from the heart

"Adversity is only an obstacle if we fail to see opportunity."

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Celeste Cooper, RN

Author—Patient—Freelance Writer at Health Central & ProHealth —Advocate

Celeste’s Website: http://CelesteCooper.com

Learn more about Celeste’s books at her website or find links here on Celeste's  blog. Subscribe to posts by using the information in the upper right hand corner or use the share buttons to share with others.

All blogs and comments are based on the author's opinions and are not meant to replace medical advice.  

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the SeeSaw of Chronic Pain, SUMMER DEVOTIONS

Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes challenges for the person living with chronic pain and illness. Being prepared to face each day, sometimes each moment, is important for maximizing the many aspects that confront the person living in pain. Following is information on SUMMER DEVOTIONS in the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the SeeSaw of Chronic Pain series.

About the Book 

By focusing on each summer day, the authors send their readers on a personal journey that allows them to restructure their personal experience with pain. In the foreword, Erica Verillo says “...Organized into a “book of days” each chapter offers a combination of practical coping advice – how to manage the sleep disorder that often comes with chronic pain, dietary considerations, and how to review the effectiveness of treatments – information (what do all those medical acronyms mean?), and guidance through the emotional turmoil of chronic illness...”

Finding physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual balance can be challenging for the person living with chronic pain. There is a primal need to provide physical comfort and positive interactions with others. Though this is something everyone faces, those who live with chronic pain are confronted with these challenges, and more, every day. Summer Devotions strives to help readers reclaim control over their lives by interacting with daily prompts for inward reflection. Everyone's experience with pain is unique and so should be their strategies for coping.

"Broken Body, Wounded Spirit takes those who suffer from chronic pain and illness on a magical ride to a place where all patients need to go: a place of relaxation, solace, and perspective. Woven in a rich pattern of interrelated tips, stories, and lovely truisms, we learn that we control our journey, and that being mindful of the realities of dealing with a chronic disease puts us in charge. I highly recommend this soulful little book."
 ~Richard Carson, Health advocate and Founder of ProHealth.com
From Summer Devotions Inside the Cover

“A must have for anyone suffering from the frustration of chronic pain. Best part about this book is you don't have to read it in order... I've skimmed through several times and each time there is another inspiration just waiting!”  Amazon Reviewer

 “I am only about halfway through this book, but have found it thought-provoking, insightful and uplifting. I don't read a lot, and this is broken down into daily readings which is helpful, yet I often find myself wanting to read more than one days worth at a time. I would highly recommend this book and the fact that it is available on Kindle on my phone and I can take it with me and read it anywhere is an added bonus! “Hannah, AmazonReviewer 

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Celeste  is an advanced trained RN who was forced into early retirement because of chronic pain. Her experience as an educator, an advocate, and a person living with chronic pain gives her a unique perspective. Her motivation for writing self-help books is to fulfill her personal purpose of helping others. Celeste believes it is up to each individual to explore ways to improve their life and encourages her readers through the exercises included in her works. She also believes every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect and understands first-hand that is something each person must learn to demand in a kind and meaningful way, despite judgment imposed by others. For that reasons she advocates and educates.

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Jeff  Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist with several specialties, including management of chronic pain disorders.  His goal is to help patients learn to cope with the psychological and spiritual aspects of pain and provide easy to use tools for maintaining forward momentum in their life.

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Available:

Amazon (Also available in Kindle) 

Barnes and Noble 

Amazon UK 

Amazon Canada 

In healing,

Celeste Cooper, RN / Author, Freelancer, Advocate

Think adversity?-See opportunity!

http://www.CelesteCooper.com

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"Adversity is only an obstacle if we fail to see opportunity."  Celeste Cooper, RN

Author, patient/ advocate, fibromyalgia health expert 

Books:

Read about Celeste and access to her books at Author Central here

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain [Four book series]

Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain 

Website: http://www.TheseThree.com

Sneak Peek – Revised edition of Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain, SUMMER DEVOTIONS

Inside the Cover:

“Broken Body – Wounded Spirit is a movable feast of poetry, reflections, coping strategies, educational tidbits, enchanting imagery, and more. For anyone in persistent pain holding a desire to restore physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance, Celeste and Jeff offer help, hope, and a path to self-empowerment.” Myra J. Christopher, Kathleen M. Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics, and Principal Investigator of the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a NationalStrategy.

Summer 

Day One

The Power of Summer

               

Today is the day to begin our summer growth, a time to mature into a different way of thinking about how we can use and improve on what we learned from the Spring Devotions in this series. As we embrace the summer season and feel the warmth of the sun, we learn to rise up in the face of summer power and empowerment despite our personal adversities. The benefits of the season are bountiful...

Spending 20 minutes in the sun can:

• Boost vitamin D levels (having many health benefits).
• Provide an opportunity to get up and get going.
• Improve our mood...

and more.

Things we can do while we are enjoying the outdoors: 

• Appreciate the detail of a flower by looking at it closely with a camera or magnifying glass.
• Smell new mown grass and feel it under our feet.
• Spend time visiting with a friend...

 and more.

What are some other things I could add to these lists?

About the Book 
Review the Table of Contents 
What others have to say, Inside the Cover 

Available:

Amazon (Also available in Kindle)
Barnes and Noble 
Amazon UK
Amazon Canada 

Editorial Review by Jean Hall at Readers Favorites just in for SUMMER DEVOTIONS of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain Series by Celeste Cooper, RN and Jeff Miller, PhD

Readers Favorite Book Review

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: 

Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain

SUMMER DEVOTIONS

by Jean Hall, here.

Chronic pain can drag you down but there are ways to lift yourself up. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain by Celeste Cooper, RN, offers sublime encouragement and innovative tips for healing. Ninety-two daily readings have a beautiful or peaceful photograph to accompany a famous quote or words of wisdom. This book is called Summer Devotions which is a season for growth in nature and, hopefully, in your life and health.

There may be deep meaning in the experience of chronic pain which goes beyond invisible and nagging symptoms. There is a Chinese proverb which says, "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." The hidden gem of value within ourselves can be understood by practicing meditation, breathing deeply, or focusing on prayer. Topics for Summer Devotions include: Ten tips for overcoming depression, focusing on outcomes instead of obstacles, suggestions for visualization, finding your inner strength, better nutrition, and spirituality.

Registered nurse Celeste Cooper and her co-author psychologist Jeff Miller, PhD, don't minimize the experience of chronic pain and they show many ways to find balance in your life and health. The quotes and coping methods have both Eastern and Western sources. The author clearly speaks from her own personal experience and this gives the text credibility and heart. Each day's devotion has just enough information to widen your horizons without getting bogged down. Celeste Cooper urges the reader to cope and to find meaning in difficult circumstances.

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The reviewer for Reader's Favorite, Jean Hall, did an excellent job in capturing the essence of what we offer our readers who are struggling to manage and cope with chronic pain. It is obvious that her review was based on her experiences with the information, tools and tips we wish all of our readers to explore.

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All answers and blogs are based on the author's opinions and writing and are not meant to replace medical advice.  

Celeste Cooper is a retired RN, educator, fibromyalgia patient, and lead author of the Broken Body Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain devotional series (coauthor, Jeff Miller PhD), and Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (coauthor, Jeff Miller PhD) She is a fibromyalgia expert for Dr. Oz, et al., at Sharecare.com, here, and she advocates for all chronic pain patients as a participant in the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy, here. You can read more educational information and about her books on her website, http://TheseThree.com

Free Kindle download tomorrow, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 - Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain, Fall Devotions (Revised) – Virtual Book tour

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain-FALL DEVOTIONS 

(Revised)

During the initial launch, Fall Devotions trended at #1 in pain management and #3 in motivational Kindle books.

To end the virtual book tour, we are offering the book one last time for free as a Kindle download. Tomorrow, Sunday September 22nd, beginning at 12AM Pacific Time. Just follow this link. 

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“Essential and inspiring! puts us in touch with our unspoken and unacknowledged inner self-understanding that gets pushed aside when pain steals our attention. ”

-Jan Favero Chambers, President, National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association

(Inside the cover)

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“This is an "uplifting" book that is well written. I even followed the author's suggestion and wrote my own poem!”

~Amazon reviewer

Read more about Fall Devotions, click here. 

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Sneak Peek - Day Eighty-three - Concerns to Consider

When dealing with pain, we may have concerns:

• Are we afraid of what we might discover?
• Are we able to afford medications?
• Are past experiences limiting trust?
• Will treating symptoms get to the root cause?
• How do we recognize, treat, and control underlying conditions?
• Are we identifying aggravating factors correctly?
• Do we have a metabolic disorder that might interfere with our progress?
• .…. and more.

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Available at:

AMAZON 

Paperback, here.

Kindle, here 

BARNES AND NOBLE  

Paperback, here. 

Goodreads, here.

This ends the virtual book tour. We hope you will take a few minutes to leave a review where you purchased the book or downloaded the free Kindle edition.

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Available here.  

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010.) Available here.

Books also available at major online retailers.

Virtual Book tour – Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain, Fall Devotions (Revised) – See what others are saying and get a sneak peek.

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain-

FALL DEVOTIONS 

(Revised)

During the initial launch, Fall Devotions trended at #1 in pain management and #3 in motivational Kindle books.

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“I already bought the earlier book, "Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and Myofascial Pain", so I got this on the recommendation of my pain specialist. It's nicely done and very helpful. The authors give suggestions, assignments and advice on a page per day basis. I like the format because I can focus on one thing at a time to help myself with my chronic pain condition. I can also go back and review information and rate my progress. I think this is a good tool for participating in my treatment.”

~Amazon reviewer

Read more about Fall Devotions, click here. 

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“This book is a delight. From the dark world of pain and suffering comes the voice of human courage. For so many people who struggle with chronic pain, and the devoted friends who watch them and hold them, this is the map to guide them on their journey. Each page is a lamp to light the path. Keep this gentle book by your side and read it often with the one who loves you. Thank you Celeste and Jeff for your book, it is a source of strength for the soul.”

-Dr John Whiteside MBBS, BSc, registered medical practitioner specializing in pain and trained by Dr Janet Travell.  (Australia)

(Inside the cover)

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Sneak Peek - Day Fifty-seven - Goals for the Soul Day

Like achieving any goal, we need a plan.  A few tips on becoming more spiritual.

See the good.

Wag more, bark less.

Practice prayer and meditation.

Become more open to achieving spiritual awareness.

Focus on the good of mankind.

.…. and more.

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Available at:

AMAZON 

Paperback, here.

Kindle, here 

BARNES AND NOBLE  

Paperback, here. 

Goodreads, here.

We hope you will take a few minutes to leave a review where you purchased the book.

STAY TUNED, ONE LAST FREE DAY COMING SOON!

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Available here.  

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010.) Available here.

Books also available at major online retailers.

4 week Virtual Book tour – Fall Devotions (Revised) – Week Two by Celeste Cooper

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain-

FALL DEVOTIONS 

(Revised)

During the initial launch, Fall Devotions trended at #1 in pain management and #3 in motivational Kindle books.

“Celeste Cooper thoughtfully shares her experience with chronic pain to help empower others to wholeheartedly live a more fulfilling and mindful life. ‘Embrace what we cannot change and strive to change the things we can…’ She wittingly shares healthy action strategies to help set focus on “glory days” and less on the pain. With heartfelt passion and self-awareness, Celeste and Jeff help to inspire others living with chronic pain.”

- Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA, Founder Healthin30.com, Health Educator, Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist, Featured Writer The Huffington Post, Sharecare Editorial Advisory Board  

(Inside the cover)

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This is a great book, simple and effective! When you live in pain it's easy for the world to seem like it's falling apart. Waking up each morning in pain doesn't really help your focus, other than focusing on the pain itself and then building our day around the pain. It seems that we forget about all of the life that is going on around us and what it has to offer. This book is a reminder of all that life has to offer when you're losing focus. The book is well-written and easy to read. +1 for anyone needing help with kick starting their days.

~Amazon reviewer

Read more about Fall Devotions, click here. 

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Sneak Peek - Day Forty-three

Terms in the Company of Pain - Neuralgia

 Neuralgia is pain caused by a disturbance of normal nerve function.

 Exercise:

Imagine your nerves in a bundle and they are all tangled up in a ball.  Now imagine, that ball is floating in a pool of soothing liquid.  As the ball starts to relax, it untangles and each nerve starts to leisurely unwrap until they are all resting on top of the pool. ….
and more.

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Available at:

AMAZON 

Paperback, here.

Kindle, here 

BARNES AND NOBLE  

Paperback, here. 

Goodreads, here.

We hope you will take a few minutes to leave a review where you purchased the book.

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Available here.  

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010.) Available here.

Books also available at major online retailers.

4 week Virtual Book tour – Fall Devotions - Week One

Virtual Book Tour!

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain-

FALL DEVOTIONS 
(Revised)

by Celeste Cooper, RN and Jeff Miller, PhD

During the initial launch, Fall Devotions trended at #1 in pain management and #3 in motivational Kindle books.

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“The goal of living with any chronic illness is to focus on the living and move the illness to the periphery. This book beautifully collects the wisdom of the author and of the ages as daily exercises to focus on life, growth, and health despite the presence of pain. Best wishes to all who use this book to reclaim life day by day.”

- Patricia Geraghty, RNC, MSN, FNP-BC, Sharecare Editorial Advisory Board
(Inside the cover)

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“Excellently produced, in short chapters, ideal for anyone suffering Chronic Pain to use - Uplifting quotations, thoughts - Well-formed and helpful diary-form record of pain and relief, ideal for presenting to Pain Management Personnel - Positively and empathically written, with the sufferer in mind - Highly recommend.”
~ Amazon reviewer

Read more about Fall Devotions, here.


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Sneak Peek - Day Twenty - Challenging Your Brain Power

Chronic pain interferes with sleep; lack of sleep interferes with thinking straight; and some disorders cause brainfog.

Tips for saving cognitive function:

• Give yourself plenty of time.
• Solicit help from friends and family when in crisis.
• Practice the suggestions on organizing you found in this book.
• Write things down in the same place every time.
• Assess how much is too much…. 
• and more.

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Available at:

AMAZON 

Paperback, here.

Kindle, here 

BARNES AND NOBLE  

Paperback, here. 

Goodreads, here.

We hope you will take a few minutes to leave a review where you purchased the book.

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Available here.

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010.) Available here.

Books also available at major online retailers.

Summer Devotions - Kindle Book by Celeste Cooper, RN and Jeff Miller, PhD, free TOMORROW - Last day of the Virtual Book Tour

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“Broken Body – Wounded Spirit is a movable feast of poetry, reflections, coping strategies, educational tidbits, enchanting imagery, and more.  For anyone in persistent pain holding a desire to restore physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance, Celeste and Jeff offer help, hope, and a path to self-empowerment.”

~Myra J. Christopher, Kathleen M. Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics and Principal Investigator of the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS)

 Read more here.

Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller have provided an arsenal to fight this dragon that threatens energy, growth, and healing.  By focusing on each summer day, the authors send their readers on a personal journey of mindfulness and self awareness, allowing the reader to restructure personal experience on how pain is perceived.  

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The Last Preview

Day sixty-nine

Organizing your medical information is extremely important. This allows you to communicate effectively with your healthcare provider, and on day “Sixty-nine,” you are provided tools to answer this question, “What medications work, and which ones make me right side up or upside down?”

Rather than battle upstream without a paddle,

I will let my vessel right itself and flow the course, gathering wisdom from the shores.   

~Celeste

Celeste Cooper is a retired, advanced trained, registered nurse. She is lead author of several books, contributing author, and freelance writer. She volunteers as health expert at Sharecare, advocate, and participant in the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy.  Through her own trials, she has learned to transform her perception of pain, and it has become her life's mission to share what she has learned with others who share this sometimes arduous journey. She by no means claims to be cured of chronic pain, but she is motivated to live her best life by not giving in to what she often calls the dragon. 

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Read more about Fall Devotions, click here. 

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010).

Read more here.

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This ends the virtual book tour. 

Thank you for your support!

Enjoy!

Book Tour – Kindle Version Free – See Preview #7 by Celeste Cooper, RN and Jeff Miller, PhD

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Mark your calendar and help us set a new record. 

Kindle version  FREE 

one last time for one day, this coming SATURDAY, June 13, 2013 

Pacific Time (West Coast).  12:00 a.m., Saturday TO 12:00 a.m., Sunday.

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Preview  #7

Broken Body, Wounded Spirit takes those who suffer from chronic pain and illness on a magical ride to a place where all patients need to go: a place of relaxation, solace, and perspective.  Woven in a rich pattern of interrelated tips, stories, and lovely truisms, we learn that we control our journey, and that being mindful of the realities of dealing with a chronic disease puts us in charge.  I highly recommend this soulful little book.
 ~Richard Carson, Health advocate and Founder of ProHealth.com
Read more here.

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Day Thirty-four

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like 

free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”  

 ~Helen Keller, 1880 – 1968 

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"It has been said there are two paths to the acquisition of patience.  One requires direct experience of an unpleasant nature, the other, wisdom and the ability to profit by example. If you cannot use the latter, the former lurks in your everyday endeavors.  My priceless mentor/client Hazel used to say “You won’t learn, so now you’re gonna be taught”.  Faith can not be learned or taught.  Faith is discovered, uncovered or nurtured indirectly.  It develops with patience in the sense that we surrender to the greater tide of time that exists outside our myopic demands."

Dr. Jeff Miller is a counseling psychologist in private practice.  Among other interests, Jeff values working with patients with chronic pain and illness.

Paperback now available, clic here.

Kindle e-book available, click here.  

Barnes and Nobel in paperback, click here. 

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The book will be available at all major online retailers soon.

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Other books by Celeste Cooper and Jeff Miller:

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain. [ Series]. (Blue Springs, MO, ImPress Media, 2012 – 2014). Read more about Fall Devotions, click here. 

C. Cooper and J. Miller. Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Myofascial Pain: The Mind body Connection.  (Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2010).

Read more here.

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