- 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.
Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on Children and Families
About Fibromyalgia
From Mayo Clinic
TED Talk about ACE Adverse Childhood Experience Scale
Nadine Burke Harris: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Sidran Institute Traumatic Stress Education and Advocacy
sidran.org
Helps people understand, manage, and treat trauma and dissociation.
Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development
As Spiritual Beings …
Our sexuality, race, religion, culture, gender, ethnicity are mere spits in the ocean compared to who we are as spiritual beings.
Author Unknown
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals …
Nobody Drinks Alone
Song, by Keith Urban
https://youtu.be/mWWHu2IFPt0
Men & Depression
National Institute of Mental Health on Men & Depression
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/men-and-depression/
Help Guide
Has tons of mental health resources, check it out…
Health Journeys
healthyjourneys.com
CD’s & Audiotapes on a variety of topics, especially meditation. Check it out …