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Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD, is a physician turned mindfulness and compassion teacher and a senior teacher at InsightLA (InsightLA.org) in Los Angeles, California. She trains teachers and teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion to groups and individuals in the US and across Europe. With her medical background, one of her specialties is working with people who suffer from chronic illness and pain. Dr. Wolf is a lead teacher and program developer for the nationwide mindfulness facilitator training for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. Wolf is also a Buddhist teacher in the vipassana (insight) meditation tradition and has received teacher transmission from Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield. She is the coauthor, with Greg Serpa, of A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness. Dr. Wolf lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

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Pain can be a big, unwieldy box that we struggle to carry all day. But what if we could put down this box, unpack it, and tackle the contents one by one? Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain is Dr. Christiane Wolf's radically clear, evidence-based guide to relieving chronic pain with mindfulness, complete with twenty easy guided meditations and self-compassion practices, including:

• rewriting the "pain story" you tell yourself
• practicing loving acceptance of your body as it is
• mindfully working through negative emotions

• strengthening your inner and outer support systems. Publisher's note: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Chronic Pain is an updated and revised edition of Outsmart Your Pain.

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  *Foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, MD

• Introduction: An Opportunity to change your brain Part 1: Caring for Yourself You Are Not Your Pain

1. Meditation: You are not your pain The Pain Story

2. Practice: Writing reflection on the pain story

3. Meditation: The pain story The Box We Call Pain

4. Practice: Working with thoughts, sensations, and emotions

5. Meditation: Opening the box of pain: exploring sensations, thoughts, and emotions Self-Compassion for Pain

6. Meditation: Self-compassion for pain Part 2: Making Peace Ending the War with Your Body

7. Meditation: Kindness body scan Finding Your Internal Support Group

8. Meditation: Shared humanity: calling up the internal support group Collecting Pearls

9. Practice: Collecting pearls

10. Meditation: Yes, and... Part 3: Handling Big Emotions The Dark Clouds of Depression

11. Meditation: Safe and pain free in the body The Fear of Making Grief Real

12. Meditation: Being with grief Numbing Out

13. Meditation: Urge surfing Anger is a Mixed Bag

14. Meditation: Safely exploring anger Freeing Yourself from the Prison of Resentment

15. Meditation: Forgiveness Part 4: The Pain of Connecting and Disconnecting Dealing with Ignorance

16. Meditation: Dealing with hurtful remarks Loving Someone with Chronic Pain

17. Meditation: Equanimity: every person is on their own life's journey Finding Your People

18. Meditation: Finding strength and joy in connections with others Part 5: Shifting Perspective The Comparing Mind

19. Meditation: Releasing your comparing mind Making Meaning

20. Making meaning: silver lining backward and forward The Paradox of Doing Nothing

21. Meditation: Doing nothing The Big Picture

22. Meditation: The big picture Stop Trying to Get Better

23. Meditation: OK as you are
    *Epilogue: Closing Thoughts

    • *Resources
    • *Acknowledgments
    • About the Author