Relaxation response: Tai chi

Check-in: Share an item from your gratitude journal
A cognitive distortion you noticed during the week or any negative automatic
thoughts you’ve noticed you are having, how you are countering them

Sleep

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Medication check

Handouts: Pain diaries, bimonthly feedback sheet

Homework: Continue to write in your pain dairies and gratitude journals, continue to spend time practicing a relaxation response exercise daily, read your handouts

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something
instead of lying there worrying.
It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie

And if tonight my soul may find her peace
in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower
then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
~D.H. Lawrence

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book. ~Irish Proverb
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Link to Session 9