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Mind Your Body

Mind Your Body

A Revolutionary Programme to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety

Summary

'This book serves as a transformative road map, offering actionable steps that promise liberation and empowerment.' GABBY BERNSTEIN, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Filled with detailed accounts of how stressful events shape the pain we experience in our bodies and anxiety in our emotional landscapes, we learn how strengthening mental skills of attention, awareness and self-compassion can transform our suffer­ing, as we shift from merely surviving to thriving in a new life of freedom and choice.'
– DANIEL SIEGEL, author of the New York Times bestseller Aware


Does it feel like your body is failing you? It doesn't have to be this way.

The thread that binds us is chronic pain, and conditions that limit us in countless ways. We live a shadow life, isolated by our pain. This struggle impacts our confidence at work, in our relationships, and leaves us vulnerable to depression. You may have tried different drugs, surgeries, alternative and holistic procedures, hoping to find a hint of relief. Too often, that relief doesn’t come.

In Mind Your Body, psychotherapist Nicole Sachs shows us a new way of understanding and tackling chronic pain by nurturing your mind–body connection. With compassionate guidance, she helps us to understand that pain is an invitation to recognise the inner truths that have been waiting for our acknowledgement.

In this groundbreaking book, Nicole Sachs explores the emotional depth of pain, by exploring common mini traumas such as shame, grief, suppressed emotions and unresolved issues. Through practical tools, journal prompts and self-inquiry, she offers us deeply healing ways to truly understand our body-mind, get to the bottom of our chronic condition and live life to the full once more.

Reviews

  • Nicole Sachs deeply understands the connection between trauma, the body and chronic illness, and her transformative program can help anyone suffering from chronic pain live a better life.
    ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, founder & CEO, Thrive Global

About the author

Nicole J Sachs

Nicole Sachs is a speaker, writer, podcaster and psychotherapist who has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain, symptoms and conditions. She is a faculty instructor at the OMEGA Institute and The Art of Living Retreat Center. Her brand, The Cure for Chronic Pain, includes a Podcast which has over 5 Million downloads worldwide. Her personal experience, as well as work with thousands of people, have shaped and evolved Nicole’s theories, which serve to teach those suffering how to find freedom beyond their chronic pain.
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