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"Young Andrew was autistic and bilingual. He spoke English-and Chicken. He would sit on the front porch deep in conversation with his best friend, an Araucana chicken named Frightful. It was a two-way dialog consisting of secrets told and secrets kept between boy and fowl. His feathery friend became his voice; his only way to communicate in a confusing world. But one day, Andrew confided to Frightful: 'I think my body is trying to kill me.' That single...

El doctor Arturo Goicoechea es un reconocido neurólogo, pionero en España en la investigación de los llamados «síntomas sin explicación médica» y en neurobiología del dolor. El autor propone, de manera directa, divulgativa y esperanzadora, la desmitificación de creencias erróneas sobre la enfermedad como herramienta terapéutica esencial, apostando decididamente por el modelo pedagógico como instrumento para enfrentarnos a los síntomas...

Doctors and therapists erroneously view pain as the result of injury or disease. Renowned bodywork teacher and pain therapist Chuck Duff discovered that the ineffectiveness of these beliefs stems from a failure to understand the true origins of pain. His Coaching The Body® system recognizes that pain originates in the brain as a response to danger signals from trigger points that feed the brain's innate protective instinct. CTB interrupts these peripheral...

"End muscle and joint pain. You've probably heard that as you get older, you are guaranteed to have more muscle and joint pain. That's simply not true. These chronic ailments arise from years of decreased activity and poor posture -- not aging. End Everyday Pain for 50+ presents a complete 10-minute-a-day program to correct previous damage, develop healthier joints, and stay pain free at any age. This book's step-by-step approach provides quick relief...

Troubleshoot your human machine and resolve the deeper alignment issues affecting your health. Through her blog, Katy Says, biomechanist Katy Bowman has been educating hundreds of thousands of people about optimal alignment and natural movement since 2007. Alignment Matters contains the first five years of her short essays, in an easy-to-follow format. Starting with the feet and working all the way up to the head, Bowman's clear, engaging text lays...

"Build a plan to reclaim your life with this easy-to-follow program designed by a leading pain expert. Chronic pain can make you feel broken, helpless, or worthless, stealing yoru sense of independence, security, and well-being. This indispensable guide explores the key role that your brain plays in processing pain and how small, simple actions can make profound changes in how you experience chronic pain. Chronic Pain Reset will help you evaluate...

"Radically clear, evidence-based mental strategies and meditations to relieve chronic pain"-- Pain can be a big, unwieldy box that you struggle to carry all day. Wolf shows readers how mindfulness lets you put down this box and unpack its contents. She provides guided meditations and self-compassion practices that will help you separate your pain from the stressful thoughts and troubled feeling that come with it. Learn to lay down your burden-- and...

"In the tradition of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain; No Grain, No Pain demonstrates the proven link between a gluten-heavy diet and chronic pain and discomfort--and offers a groundbreaking, 30-day, grain-free diet plan to help you heal yourself from the inside out. More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain according to an Institute of Medicine report released in 2011. For many, chronic pain is part of an autoimmune disease, but all too...