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Living With Pain: Two Types of Coping
From birth, we are all faced with two basic questions: “What do I want or need?” and “How do I get it?” Of course, we start out wanting the same kinds of things: to eat, to sleep, to be safe, …
Living with Pain – Don't Give Up on Goals
Life is richer when you can pursue the things that matter, such as love, work, feelings of competence, being part of a caring social network of family and
Living with Pain: Lean into it
Most of what I write about in this blog is derived from the science of pain management. But, I also find lessons about coping with pain in daily
Living with Pain: Acknowledge the White Bear
Dr. Daniel Wegner, a Harvard psychology professor, has done some fascinating research on how people try to control or suppress unwanted thoughts. This
Coping with Pain: Restoring Hope
Researchers have found that it is not unusual for people with chronic pain to also report feelings of depression. Not surprisingly, being
Coping with Pain: Who Am I?
Psychologists who study the process of self knowledge examine how people approach the question: "Who am I?" We think of the "self" as having several components. There is
Coping with Chronic Pain: Multiple Coping Strategies Make a Difference
Today in spin class, we did an endurance ride: 60 minutes in which you work hard enough that you really
Goalistics Presentation at the 30th Annual American Pain Society Meeting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Linda S. Ruehlman, PhD linda.ruehlman@goalistics.com Web-Based Program Eases Physical and Psychological Burden of Chronic Pain New Study Presented at the American Pain Society Reveals Online Program Reduces
Strategies for Coping with Pain
Last week I talked about Catastrophic Thinking and its interference with coping with pain. Today, I want to talk more generally about basic types of coping
