December 2008 Books
A Day Without Pain; The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love
A Day Without Pain
Notice that this book has no subtitle? I guess it didn't need one – the title speaks quite clearly for itself. On the other hand, how would you guess that this book advocates a holistic approach to chronic pain management?
As director of Las Vegas' leading inpatient and addiction treatment facility, Pohl had a professional investment in learning about dealing with pain without creating drug dependence. And as a man with a five-year history of back pain, he had a personal investment as well. Put it all together, and you have a medical professional who, as a director of the Betty Ford Center has attested, “‘walks the walk' and ‘talks the talk' of a drug-free approach to chronic pain management.”
The book opens with a discussion of the many faces of pain before moving into a truly moving story of one boy's encounter with a washing machine wringer in the ‘50s and the lifetime of chronic pain it engendered. From there we move into a discussion of the multiple factors that affect our experience of pain and what it means in our lives.
Let me not give the impression that Pohl condemns the use of drugs for pain management. Opoid treatment is appropriate for sufferers of chronic pain, he points out, if it relieves the pain without impairing functionality or creating intolerable side effects. Many, however, continue to suffer pain even with medication, and experience insult added to injury when they find themselves unable to tear away from the drugs.
With this in mind, the book offers an in-depth discussion of drug dependence before moving on to delve into other possibilities for learning to manage pain, including mindfulness, distraction, stretching, yoga, Pilates, reiki, acupuncture, chi kung, physical therapy and attitude adjustment. The point is that while pain may never completely disappear, it can be managed through natural approaches and brought into alignment with a happy, productive life style.
—Chiwah
The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love
Since the Baby Boom generation, we have been raised with a sense that self-fulfillment is on eo f our inalienable rights--yet most of us probably do not love our work. As the longtime host of a radio show devoted to helping people find careers they love, Maureen Anderson has often invited listeners in to hear firsthand accounts of people who not only relish their work, but live without regret.
The Career Clinic collects intimate and revealing first-hand accounts of people who have made the leap from the 9-to-5 doldrums into jobs that leave them feeling happy, satisfied, and filled with the sense of contentment that comes from knowing they're doing what they were put on this earth to do.
From a fashion designer who became a psychotherapist, to a husband and wife who followed their dream to open a bookstore, The Career Clinic offers practical guidance on how anyone can begin a love affair with their career...even if the path doesn't seem easy. As Anderson puts it, “It's one thing to say yes to a dream. That's easy. It's saying yes over and over, when the world is saying no, that will take you where to go.” In The Career Clinic, Anderson shares motivation from her own life as well as that of filmmakers and cowboys, musicians and innkeepers, and others who have successfully found heir place in the world, including a social worker who changed course to become a computer consultant, and even some well-known figures such as humorist Dave Barry, who didn't originally set out to be a columnist.
The Career Clinic urges readers to follow their instincts, get in touch with what gives them joy, and discover a way to make their greatest talents and interests a part of what they might come to only grudgingly refer to as “work.”
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