Coley ’s Reviews > The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life > Status Update

Some helpful parts I’ve stuck with it as I have nothing to loose I’m now at the part of making my own pain management plan which could massively benefit me as I’ve never had one!

Some useful parts, I’ve also booked myself onto a mindfulness taster session so that may be good, this book has its advantages

There’s alot of talk in this book about “resuming activities” which I don’t appreciate as someone who has chronic pain but never stops it’s like people in pain become lazy which isn’t true for most. but I am enjoying the goal setting

Page 53 is very helpful I have made a good start on my pain story and I can see that there are a lot of different emotions connected to it and why this would be helpful mentally for me to get through my emotions connected to my chronic pain

Unsure whether this book is for me! It was recommended to me by a therapist who assessed me and said I have so
Some ptsd from being paralysed 4 years ago and I now live with the residual symptoms of chronic pain from my condition, I have seen alot about not doing much when your in pain and that’s not the case for me I have 2 young children I’m completing a degree and I never stop! So far I have learnt nothing

I am into completing this book now I just do a few pages every morning after my morning workout it’s like I’ve done the physical body work now let me do the mind work, it’s become the norm and helps me to remember to complete some more

I’ve found this book really hard to get into its full of science mainly the biopsychosocial model of pain and I’m not very good at science so I gave up on it as I couldn’t concentrate, this week I have decided to devote a couple of minutes each morning to completing a double page of it until I get into it I hope this helps me as my therapist suggested it