The Pain Survival Guide: How to Reclaim Your Life
If you suffer from chronic pain, this proven 10-step program brings hope and relief, showing you how gradual changes in specific behaviors can lead to great improvements in your ability to cope. Psychologists Turk and Winters’ recommendations are based on solid research that shows what works and on their success with thousands of patients. Unlike the authors of other pain books, they promise no miracle cures, but they do help you learn “not to let your body push you around” so life becomes enjoyable again. The key lessons in this book include
- Uncovering some of the myths about pain and the deceptive ways it fools your body into unconstructive behavior
- Pacing your activity, so you build strength without overdoing or underdoing it
- Learning how to induce deep relaxation so you can begin to enjoy life again
- Dealing with disturbed sleep and chronic fatigue
- Improving your relations with family and friends, and soliciting support
- Changing your habitual behaviors in ways that reduce pain
- Combating the negative thinking that often accompanies pain
- Regaining your self-confidence and trust in yourself
- The power of goal-setting and humor
- Dealing with the inevitable relapses and setbacks once improvement has set in
Workbook exercises, behavior logs, and suggested readings help you integrate these lessons into your daily life and learn to live well despite pain.
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Belong
The beginning of ‘Belong’– the title track and new single from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s second album, which is out March 29 via Slumberland– features the indie-pop band casually jangling along. But it’s something of a red herring. Right at the fifteen-second mark, the guitars blitz out louder and harder than anything on their self-titled debut. The gargantuan distortion recalls nothing less than prime-era Smashing Pumpkins, which makes sense considering Belong was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder, aka the guys who helped craft the sounds of Pumpkins classics like Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, not to mention records by My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, U2, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, and many more. Basically, if you grew up in the 90s, your ears are subconsciously attuned the studio wizardry of Flood and Alan Moulder.
We recently met up with the band at the delightfully cheesy grilled-meats chain Dallas BBQ in downtown Manhattan. As lead singer Kip Berman slurped a red, white, and blue frozen drink called the ‘Firecracker,’ he and the rest of the group– that’s keyboardist Peggy Wang, bassist Alex Naidus, and drummer Kurt Feldman– talked about their unlikely studio gurus in semi-shocked tones. The chummy foursome were more than happy to chat about the movie Clueless and something called a Travel Pussy, too.
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