Tips to Cultivate a Positive Mindset for Arthritis Sufferers

By Irene S. Roth

In this e-book, I have tried to explain how to reorganize your life so that you cultivate a positive mindset.

The worst thing you can do is to expect that your life will be the same after being diagnosed with a chronic illness. Your life will be different, and the quicker you accept this, the better.

Further, instead of trying to do what you did over and over and frustrating yourself because you cannot do as much as you used to, it is far better that you reorganize your life so that you can live the best life that you can, even though you have a chronic illness.

Your life isn’t over if you have a chronic illness. However, how you used to do things must necessarily change. You cannot live your life vicariously in the past. Instead, you must embrace your limitations, accept them, and build a life for yourself that is empowering and enlightening. You can do this by taking a few concrete steps every day. This e-book will show you how to do that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Irene S. Roth
• Release date: Jan 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370130979

Irene S. Roth

Irene S. Roth, MA is an academic and freelance writer. She writes academically, for teens and tweens and adults. When she isn't writing, she is teaching. She is also pursuing a Master's of Social Work Degree.

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Tips to Cultivate a Positive Mindset for Arthritis Sufferers

Irene S. Roth

Copyright 2018 Irene S. Roth

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1: Pace Yourself

2: Work Smart and Delegate

3: Do Less

4: Realize You Will Not Necessarily Get Worse

5: Don’t put Yourself Down

6: Don’t Engage in Negative Self-Talk

7: Don’t Let Others Put You Down

8: Don’t Engage in Slippery Slope Thinking

9: Stay Calm

10: Meditate

11: Be Mindful

12: Eat a Healthy Diet

Conclusion

About the Author

Introduction

One of the best things that you can do as a chronically-ill individual is to cultivate a positive mindset. It can be hard to develop a different mindset when living with a chronic illness. It is far easier to simply go through the motions and live half a life. But this is not what living well with arthritis is all about.

To live the best life possible, you must rethink the negativity of chronic illness and develop a much more positive mindset about your condition by focusing on some of the good things in your life and realizing that pills and medical treatment are not the only things that can