A practical, effective, and inspiring guidebook for dealing with chronic pain. Explains how to reduce pain"s grip on the body and mind by changing your personal reaction to pain Presents successful strategies from the author"s 25 years of coping with her own pain Includes 55-minute CD of author"s key techniques for controlling pain. In 1989, following surgery for a back injury, Jan Sadler was left in constant pain, with no hope of any further conventional treatment and no adequate prescription drug therapy. Rather than settle for a life of chronic suffering, she gave up her career teaching English and began an investigation into the self-treatment of her pain. Building on her skills as a teacher, she incorporated the pain management techniques she discovered into programs that would help other sufferers learn how to cope with pain and find truly effective relief from its debilitating effects. Sadler shows how we can reduce pain"s grip by...