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Winter Devotions
There is nothing charismatic about chronic pain regardless of its source. Pain and chronic illness are greedy and demanding consuming time, relationships, and function, and it threatens our dignity.
The winter season is often compared to death. In this case it is the dying off of old thoughts and destructive behaviors. It is a season that offers the experience of many feelings and the opportunity to be born into a new way of thinking about our pain and how it affects us as well as those around us. Winter devotions of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit series provides the necessary tools to fight the grotesque monster that threatens to steal everything that is important in our life. The monster that plays on fear, agony, loneliness, and resentment cannot survive. This book provides a level playing field; it is literally, a game changer.
The authors use their practical coping advice to help their readers design their individualized game plan. Participants start with a blank canvas as white as the pure driven snow, full of possibilities. Offering a blend of integrative therapies and play by play descriptions, the authors help their readers finalize a picture worth a thousand words, encouraging their readers to explore their unique, and sometimes, universal experience.
Come with us as we walk the barren winter land, appreciating that it is necessary to rid ourselves of previous conceptions in preparation for the spring season of rebirth.
The winter season is often compared to death. In this case it is the dying off of old thoughts and destructive behaviors. It is a season that offers the experience of many feelings and the opportunity to be born into a new way of thinking about our pain and how it affects us as well as those around us. Winter devotions of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit series provides the necessary tools to fight the grotesque monster that threatens to steal everything that is important in our life. The monster that plays on fear, agony, loneliness, and resentment cannot survive. This book provides a level playing field; it is literally, a game changer.
The authors use their practical coping advice to help their readers design their individualized game plan. Participants start with a blank canvas as white as the pure driven snow, full of possibilities. Offering a blend of integrative therapies and play by play descriptions, the authors help their readers finalize a picture worth a thousand words, encouraging their readers to explore their unique, and sometimes, universal experience.
Come with us as we walk the barren winter land, appreciating that it is necessary to rid ourselves of previous conceptions in preparation for the spring season of rebirth.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 17, 2013
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About the author
Celeste Cooper
8 books11 followersCeleste Cooper is a retired RN, author, blogger, pain advocate as a participant in PAINSproject.org, patient and fibromyalgia expert at Sharecare.com.
She has a BSN and degree as a Legal Nurse Consultant in Paralegal Studies. She practiced as a board certified emergency nurse, critical care, manager, and educator and she was an expert witness for both the plaintiff and defendant. She wrote continuing education programs for the Missouri State Board of Nursing, was a member of the American Society for Hospital Education and Training, a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, a member of the Legal Nurse Consultant organization, and was an affiliate faculty for the American Heart Association.
Celeste has contributed health articles to advocate and medical journals, has a genuine love for writing, believes in using her voice as a patient advocate, encourages physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance, while considering bioethical practices.
She is lead author of Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (co-author, Jeff Miller, PhD), and Celeste is the lead author of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain Devotional Series (co-author Jeff Miller, PhD)
Because of her own health struggles with chronic pain, she has found opportunity in adversity and a way to carry through with her life's purpose of helping others. She enjoys writing self help books and poetry, she is an amateur photographer, and feels the best when she is able to connect with nature. Celeste has a true appreciation for humanity, empathy, and all living things.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter & bleed.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
You can visit her Amazon author page at http://amazon.com/author/celestecooper
She has a BSN and degree as a Legal Nurse Consultant in Paralegal Studies. She practiced as a board certified emergency nurse, critical care, manager, and educator and she was an expert witness for both the plaintiff and defendant. She wrote continuing education programs for the Missouri State Board of Nursing, was a member of the American Society for Hospital Education and Training, a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, a member of the Legal Nurse Consultant organization, and was an affiliate faculty for the American Heart Association.
Celeste has contributed health articles to advocate and medical journals, has a genuine love for writing, believes in using her voice as a patient advocate, encourages physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance, while considering bioethical practices.
She is lead author of Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (co-author, Jeff Miller, PhD), and Celeste is the lead author of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain Devotional Series (co-author Jeff Miller, PhD)
Because of her own health struggles with chronic pain, she has found opportunity in adversity and a way to carry through with her life's purpose of helping others. She enjoys writing self help books and poetry, she is an amateur photographer, and feels the best when she is able to connect with nature. Celeste has a true appreciation for humanity, empathy, and all living things.
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter & bleed.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
You can visit her Amazon author page at http://amazon.com/author/celestecooper
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March 19, 2014
I've spent a difficult winter reading this book every morning. Some ideas are basic, some more complex. But all of them are presented with compassion by authors who have clearly been in chronic pain themselves. Worth the read!
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