Long Haul COVID: A Survivor’s Guide: Transform Your Pain & Find Your Way Forward

By Joseph J. Trunzo and Julie Luongo

Overwhelmed, frustrated, and suffering from long haul COVID symptoms and the fallout of the pandemic? This practical guide will help you transform your struggles to lead a fulfilling, vital life right now. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the scientifically based therapeutic approach presented by Joseph J. Trunzo and Julie Luongo, offers a way out - not when you’re feeling better, but right now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
• Release date: Jun 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781789048155

Joseph J. Trunzo

Dr. Joseph J. Trunzo is Professor of Psychology and Department Chair at Bryant University in Rhode Island, USA. He also serves as the Deputy Director of Bryant University’s Center for Health & Behavioral Sciences. His research and clinical work focuses on treating anxiety and mood disorders, especially in those suffering from Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses. He lives in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

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Introduction

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve been suffering from the devastating fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe it’s lingering symptoms of a COVID infection, grief over the loss of loved ones, or struggling with loneliness and isolation. The pandemic has turned our world upside down in previously unimaginable ways. We’re suffering as a human race in ways we have not felt for a very, very long time. But what if there is a way to use this pandemic to change things for the better? Certainly, we have fractious division as a result of COVID, but we have also seen people come together and help one another in wonderful ways that highlight the best aspects of humanity. What if the pandemic can help us – all of us – to reset the way we deal with suffering, as a person and as all of