The Pain Management Workbook Quotes

“Healing Anger If you loathe and feel ashamed of your anger, try using imagery to change your relationship with it, transforming it from a dangerous, hateful monster to a gentle, helpless animal, a creature you can love and manage. For example, practice imagining that your anger is a furry dog with big, sweet eyes. (Sound silly? Try it anyway!) Whenever you hear your anger yowling, instead of raging at it, hating it, and stuffing it into a tiny cage, put him on a leash and take him outside for a walk. Speak to him soothingly and kindly in a voice you’d use with someone you love.”
― Rachel Zoffness, The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life

“For this example, our trigger will be pain. Figure”
― Rachel Zoffness, The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life

“Reminding myself that hurt doesn’t equal harm (belief that my body is safe, relaxed)”
― Rachel Zoffness, The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life

“control of your pain dial by managing (1) stress and anxiety, (2) mood, (3) attention, (4) interpretations and understanding of pain, and (5) coping behaviors.”
― Rachel Zoffness, The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life

“pain is biopsychosocial. The Three Prongs of Pain: Bio-Psycho-Social The causes of pain—and therefore the most effective methods for treating it—are biopsychosocial. This means that there are three interconnected, equally important domains to target if we want to effectively treat chronic pain and other health issues: biology (“bio”), psychology (“psych”), and social factors. These three domains overlap to both produce and reduce pain and symptoms. Because”
― Rachel Zoffness, The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life