Striving to Thriving is a practical "toolbox" providing you with the resources needed to craft an individualized data-driven treatment plan with your providers so you can reclaim your life from chronic pain. When was the last time a provider invested time asking you questions about your struggles, sleep, social and emotional well-being and truly listened? How do you assess whether your providers have the ability, talent, skills or information about your condition(s)? This is a book about hope and doing what works for you. If you've grown weary of failed passive approaches to pain management and want to take your life back, this book is for you. Equipped with information and options, you will learn how to build your own multidisciplinary team of providers, manage all the players and ultimately the decisions affecting your quality of life. For more information go to strivingtothriving.com
This highly-interactive text includes:
• Pain neuroscience education (PNE) presented in a readable manner providing the reader with practical information, exercises, tasks and challenges leading to a fuller life
• How pain can affect all biopsychosocial domains of your life and your brain
• How acute pain becomes chronic and techniques to unlearn your pain
• How to find and hire practitioners on the multidisciplinary team you build and lead
• A comprehensive and practical toolbox from which you can craft your own treatment plan
• Expressive writing prompts at the end of each chapter that help you unravel those things holding you back from reclaiming your life
• Access to self-assessments, logs, templates and more which help you quantify measurable outcomes
• Recommended strategies at the end of each chapter for both patients and providers
