Relaxation: Mindfulness in Pain – naming sensations

Check-in: Gratitude, Communication observations

Sarno: The Tension Myositis Syndrome – another theory about the cause of some chronic pain

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Relapse Prevention(if time allows)

Medication check

Homework: Gratitude journal, Problem-Solving Exercises- work on one goal that you have been struggling with, and apply problem-solving strategies to help move this issue
Experiment with Sarno – talking back to your brain

Healing-plan-vertical

You don’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.
-Laurel Mellin

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart
may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned
of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
Kahlil Gibran

Link to Session 13