The Power of Appreciation

The Power Of Appreciation: The Key to a Vibrant Life

Title: The Power Of Appreciation: The Key to a Vibrant Life Author: Noelle C. Nelson, Ph.D. and Jeannine Lemare alaba, Psy.D Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing Release Date: Oct 2, 2003 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Research confirms that when people feel appreciated, good things happen to their minds, hearts, and bodies. The Power of Appreciation shows […]
Wishing Well

Wishing Well: Making Your Every Wish Come True

Title: Wishing Well: Making Your Every Wish Come True Author: Paul Pearsall, Ph.D. Publisher: Hyperion Release Date: Apr 19, 2000 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Make your own wishes come true, with a little help from New York Times bestselling author Paul Pearsall. Like blowing out candles on a cake, we think of wishing as magic, never believing […]

NIH-funded study suggests brain is hard-wired for chronic pain

Brain’s white matter may determine susceptibility to chronic pain Scientists used the structure of the brain’s white matter (green lines) to predict whether a subject would recover from low back pain. Red dots represent differences in white matter structure between subjects who recovered and who suffered chronic pain. Courtesy of Apkarian lab, Northwestern University Feinberg […]

4 Lies We Believe About Life With Illness

Lisa Copen Founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week and Rest Ministries When it comes to making the daily decisions about our illness it’s easy to rely on instinct. Occasionally, however, our instinctive decisions about dealing with our disease can lead us astray. What we once believed about our body and its limitations when […]

complex regional pain syndrome CRPS/RSD: sheila’s story as told by her husband

Dave and I had been roommates in Salt Lake when I met Cody back in 2000. He was always quiet and funny, waxing poetic about moldy coffee or snow leopards. Cody and I were both surprised when he and my other roommate began running half and full marathons, regularly. Soon a cute girl kept showing […]