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  • Journaling and Chronic Pain

    A new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone.  Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the…

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  • Stress Illness Symptoms

    Sometimes chronic pain and illness, wrestled with over months and years, are finally found to be rooted in stress and tension.  For some, just considering that idea can help bring relief. Here’s Dr. David Clarke’s list of common stress-related symptoms, taken from his book, They Can’t Find Anything Wrong!: 7 Keys to Understanding, Treating, and…

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  • Mind-Body Media

    Once you begin considering that many physical symptoms may be stress related, not only do you react to your own aches and pains differently, the news starts to take on a different meaning.  That’s why Dr. David Schechter repeatedly asks in his  MindBody Workbook what kind of messages you’ve been getting in the media about…

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  • Workaholism and Chronic Pain

    Take a look at the Workaholics Anonymous Brief Guide (pdf). In addition to the 12-steps (pretty much the same as A.A.’s, with “work” replacing “alcohol”) and a quiz (“How Do I Know if I’m a Workaholic?”), there’s Tools of Recovery list.  What’s especially striking about them to this reader is how completely they sync up…

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  • Stress Gathering

    My report from the first day of the L.A. Mind-Body Conference is up at the Huffington Post.

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