The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain

Show Guest: Sarah Anne Shockley

In The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain, by Sarah Anne Shockley, who has personally lived with chronic pain since 2007, offers fellow pain sufferers a compassionate and supportive guide for living with pain that can be used alongside their ongoing medical or therapeutic healing programs. The book is divided into the following four parts:

Part 1: Pain Moves In

Part 2: The Emotional Life of Chronic Pain

Part 3: Meditative Approaches to Physical Pain

Part 4: When Pain Is the Teacher

"I cannot know your personal suffering, of course; only you can," writes Sarah. "But I do understand the experience of being in significant and relentless pain for long periods of time, and I can say that this book has been written from inside of pain, a perspective on the experience and the healing of pain that we are seldom offered."