'This book serves as a transformative road map, offering actionable steps that promise liberation and empowerment.' ¿ GABBY BERNSTEIN, #1 New York Times bestselling author'Filled with detailed accounts of how stressful events shape the pain we experience in our bodies and anxiety in our emotional landscapes, we learn how strengthening mental skills of attention, awareness and self-compassion can transform our suffer¿ing, as we shift from merely surviving to thriving in a new life of freedom and choice.'¿ DANIEL SIEGEL, author of the New York Times bestseller AwareDoes it feel like your body is failing you? It doesn't have to be this way. The thread that binds us is chronic pain, and conditions that limit us in countless ways. We live a shadow life, isolated by our pain. This struggle impacts our confidence at work, in our relationships, and leaves us vulnerable to depression. You may have tried different drugs, surgeries, alternative and holistic procedures, hoping to find a hint of re