Life on the Deep End: Living With Chronic Illness - Couverture souple

Steen LPC, Deborah K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1717048471 ISBN 13 : 9781717048479

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Life on the Deep End is the personal story of one woman’s thirty-year healing journey from the sudden onset of a painful and debilitating autoimmune illness to the triumph of a refocused, redirected life made possible by medical advances, skillful clinicians, positive management skills, and, more importantly, by her unconditional faith. Within the pages of this book, you can find how she learned the following lessons that served as milestones for that journey: • How to cope with the uncertainties of a difficult-to-diagnose illness• How to establish a good healthcare team• How to decrease pain and fatigue with non-drug coping skills• How to reach out to others in the community for support• How to recognize when to get help for depression• How to transform unhealthy thought patterns into healing ones• How to deal positively with worry and anxiety• How to renew a sense of self-worth by reaching out to help others• How to enhance self-esteem by identifying new, realistic goals and objectives• How to rediscover the healing power of prayer, hope, and faith

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deborah Steen is a licensed professional counselor, with 15 years of clinical experience working in both inpatient and outpatient adult mental healthcare settings in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has authored psychoeducational treatment manuals for Brookhaven Outpatient Services on depression management, anxiety management, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and chronic pain and depression management. Deborah has lived with chronic inflammatory arthritis for over three decades. She also organized and facilitated support groups for people with arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Arthritis Foundation, the American Behcet’s Disease Association, and the Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma. She currently lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and is the wife of William Steen and mother of two daughters, Jennifer and Amanda, and has three grandchildren. Deborah is also currently a member of the Park Plaza Church of Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1717048471
• ISBN 13: 9781717048479
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible