- Make a commitment to do Relaxation/Meditation, to take a Meditation class, learn meditation in a session, or ask your counselor for resources to learn it
- Keep a pain diary
- Remember YOU are responsible to do it!!!
- Talk with your counselor about catastrophizing, about how you see the world of pain, and how it relates to your past
- Talk about how you pace physical activities, do you do stretches, use swimming, and how are you sleeping?
- Get this self-help book called, Managing Pain Before It Manages You, (Paperback) by Margaret A. Caudill, MD. Ph.D.
- Read the book above and especially do the homework in the book.
- Chapter 7 can be read separately.
- The information above was obtained through phone conversation on May 11, 2009 with Robin Lacey, Ph.D. at Lutheran General Hospital.