272 pages
What can I do to help my own recovery?
How can I heal faster, better, and stronger?
What can I do to supplement my doctor's treatment?
How can I keep my spirits up during my recovery?
Our bodies are amazing in their capacity to heal, however, people can be taught how to heal faster, better, and stronger, both physically and emotionally. You Can Heal Yourself offers the strategies needed to achieve optimal healing.
This unique self-care guide includes:
- Self-assessments and strategy plans to help you evaluate your condition and manage your recovery
- Step-by-step guidelines and activity logs for pacing yourself while healing and staying on track
- Healing from the inside-out: How to focus your mental energy to help relieve pain
- Healing from the outside-in: How diet, exercise, and sleep can promote better overall health
- Signs and symptoms charts you can use to prevent physical and emotional setbacks and other risks—so you can heal yourself and feel your best!
Getting the facts about your health—and health care—has never been easier.
Table of Contents:
Acknkowledgments ix
Section I: focus on you 1
Chapter 1 Listen To Your Healing Voice 3
Chapter 2 Begin to Heal 16
Chapter 3 Take the Time to Heal 28
Section II: heal yourself from the inside out 41
Chapter 4 You Can Use Your Mind to Heal 43
Chapter 5 You Can Use Self-Love to Heal 52
Chapter 6 You Can Lessen Your Emotional Pain to Heal 58
Chapter 7 You Can Relieve Your Physical Pain to Heal 78
Section III: heal yourself from the outside in 95
Chapter 8 You Can Benefit from the Love of Others to Heal 97
Chapter 9 You Can Eat to Heal 115
Chapter 10 You Can Exercise to Heal 139
Chapter 11 You Can Sleep to Heal 166
Chapter 12 You Can Use Spirituality or the Universe to Heal 192
Section IV: your healing journey 209
Chapter 13 You Can Overcome Setbacks 211
Chapter 14 You Can Heal Yourself 220
Appendix 231
References 243
Index 249
About the author:
Julie Silver, MD, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is an award-winning author and has edited/written more than 20 books that focus on rehabilitation medicine and physical recovery. Dr. Silver is currently on the medical staffs of several major hospitals in Massachusetts, including Brigham and Womens, Massachusetts General, Spaulding, and UMass Memorial. In addition to her clinical work as a physiatrist, Dr. Silver is the Chief Editor of Books at Harvard Health Publications and a founder of Oncology Rehab Partners.
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