Yes, Individuals Who Experience Chronic Pain Can Flourish

By Irene S. Roth

As I have argued throughout this e-book, experiencing chronic pain need not mean that your life is over unless you allow it to be. Your destiny is in the palms of your hands, whether or not you experience chronic pain. You can create a meaningful quality of life by making some small tweaks to your mindsets and perspectives. Yes, you may have a few more physical limitations now than you did when you were younger, but you can still do a lot. You just must open yourself up to new perspectives that move you from a constricting and challenging one to more positive and hopeful ones.
I hope I have inspired you to flourish and create a meaningful life, despite living with a chronic condition. The good news is that you don’t have to live a limited and unfulfilled life. You can soar above your pain and fatigue to become a fulfilled person who lives a meaningful life. You can feel more positive when you get out of bed every morning by shifting your focus and living the life you always wanted to live. Your destiny starts now.
So, decide that you won’t succumb to living a minimal life. Decide that you will live your life fully, regardless of your disabilities. You can do this by following the steps in this e-book.
Remember, your life doesn’t have to end when you become chronically ill. Typically, living with chronic pain is not deadly. So, seize the day. Take control of your pain and especially your negative thoughts and emotions. Commit to enjoying your life because, my dear friends, your destiny is in the palms of your own hands. Rejoice and be glad! This is how you live a flourishing life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Irene S. Roth
• Release date: Oct 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005816735

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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Yes, Individuals Who Experience Chronic Pain Can Flourish

Irene S. Roth

Copyright 2021 Irene S. Roth

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Table of Content

Introduction

1. Practice Gratitude

2. Practice Self-Compassion

3. Keep Improving

4. After a Setback, Get Right Back on Track

5. Expect Good Health

6. Eat Less Red Meat

7. Have Sex More Often

8. De-Stress

9. Live a Full Life

10. Continue to Self-Actualize

11. Become Self-Fulfilled from Within

12. Experience Positive Emotions

13. Actively Engage with Life

14. Cultivate Meaningful Relationships

15. Serve a Larger Cause

16. Live a Vigorous Life

Conclusion

Resources

About the Author

Introduction

When we experience chronic pain, we stop believing that we can live our best life. Our culture keeps admonishing that flourishing is reserved for the healthy, young, and vibrant. But this simply isn’t the case because this view is based on an age bias that has become accepted by all of us. It simply isn’t true that people who live with chronic pain can’t do much anymore. The good news is that we are all capable of being our best, regardless of age or disability, because flourishing is brought about through your mind but not on the basis of your physical prowess.

There are two characterizations of flourishing: a physical and a psychological one. Physically, to flourish is to be in good physical health and vigorous. This, however, is only one minor aspect of flourishing. The more important meaning of flourishing is to grow from the inside or psychologically. This kind of flourishing requires that we develop, strengthen, improve, move forward, and grow. Therefore, we can be at our best interiorly, despite our physical limitations by ignoring our cultural and sometimes even individual age bias.

I believe that flourishing starts from within and then moves outwardly. Even young adults can only become excellent by developing psychological resiliency. Thus, we can all live a full and meaningful life from the inside-out, regardless of age. We don’t have to acquiesce in living within a negative mindset and feeling like we