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Unlearn Your Pain

The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression

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Unlearn Your Pain

By: Howard Schubiner
Narrated by: Howard Schubiner
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Migraines, back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue and a host of other chronic illnesses have crippled modern populations. For the past twenty years, Dr Howard Schubiner has been conducting clinical trials, writing more than 100 scientific papers and giving lectures to get to the root cause and find out how to reverse these insidious illnesses.

Unlearn Your Pain is the result of this work, revealing Dr Schubiner's life-changing program to effectively treat chronic pain, anxiety and depression.

Drawing on the latest neuroplasticity research and the science behind the mind-body connection, readers will be guided step-by-step towards a new understanding of how the mind affects our pain - both physical and emotional - and how we can take back control to live a pain-free life.

'In Unlearn Your Pain, a master clinician provides a revolutionary approach to understanding and resolving chronic pain and related conditions' – Dr Gabor Maté, author of The Myth of Normal

'Unlearn Your Pain will change everything you thought you knew about chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression.' – Dr Rangan Chatterjee, author of Make Change That Lasts

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 Anxiety Disorders Mental Health Mood Disorders Pain Management Personal Development Physical Illness & Disease Psychology & Mental Health Health Nervous System Medicine

Critic Reviews

In Unlearn Your Pain, a master clinician provides a revolutionary approach to understanding and resolving chronic pain and related conditions – an approach as startling in its ingenious simplicity as it is reassuring in its reliance on the latest research about mind, brain and body. (Dr Gabor Mate, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal)
Unlearn Your Pain will change everything you thought you knew about chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, and depression. (Dr Rangan Chatterjee, bestselling author of Make Change That Lasts)
As reflected in this well-written book, Howard Schubiner has devoted his career to relieving people of their physical pain by helping them reverse the ways they relate to it. He describes his approach in a way that is useful to both patients and clinicians and includes impressive research to back it up. (Richard Schwartz Ph.D., developer of Internal Family Systems)
Dr. Howard Schubiner is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in understanding and overcoming chronic pain. (Maria Shriver)
Dr Schubiner combines medicine and neuroscience to explain why most people with chronic pain, anxiety, depression and fatigue have neuroplastic, and therefore reversible, conditions. This book will change your life and the lives of those you care about (Monica Marie Fitzgerald, PhD., director at the Center for Resilience and Well-Being, University of Colorado Boulder Institute of Behavioral Science)
Unlearn Your Pain offers nothing less than liberation from suffering experienced by millions. The powerful examples, clear scientific concepts, research studies, and deep medical wisdom reveal a path to lives of freedom and clarity. (Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of Aware, Mind and Mindsight and co-author of The Whole Brain Child)
If you have chronic pain or other persistent symptoms, read this book. It just might change your life. (Lorimer Moseley, DSc, PhD., author of Explain Pain and Explain Pain Supercharged)
We often panic about pain, assigning it a horror that may not be warranted. I learned so much from Dr Schubiner’s book about how our thinking is frequently more responsible than our bodies. This is a must read for anyone who is suffering with chronic pain and is a great blueprint for how to correct it. (Mitch Albom, journalist and author of Tuesdays with Morrie)
This book combines Dr Schubiner’s deep clinical expertise with scientific insights that have come to light only in the last few years. The result is an adept fusion of medical knowledge, neuroscientific principles and illuminating case studies. It offers a transformative new way to understand chronic pain for patients and clinicians alike. (Tor D. Wager, PhD, Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Dartmouth College)
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I've been struggling with symptoms that don't seem to have a physical reason. The author shares many stories and credible research that gives me a new and actionable hypothesis. His voice is clear and calming too.

Makes Sense

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There was very little content I haven't heard or read before. repetitive ideas and stories.

awful narration, really hard to stick with it

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Dr Howard’s services to the humanity in terms of chronic pain and symptoms is remarkable.

Dr Howard is a gem.

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This is one of the most genuine and helpful books I've read on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Long Covid & chronic pain. Dr Shubiner has been practising, studying & teaching in this field for a long time and is a world leading expert. This isn't my first course or book on the mind body connection and I still found this useful: picking up subtleties and techniques for recovery. The authour is genuine in his wish to help this cohort and it's refreshing to find someone with down to earth strategies combined with the scientific studies to prove it. Highly recommended.

Science grounded solution to pain & fatigue

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Listening to the audio version of this book over the last 4 weeks has changed my life! This is a profound book that has transformed how I've viewed my chronic fatigue. Putting into operation its key ideas has really shifted my symptoms. I was initially drawn to this book because I had found great relief in my lower back pain by reading Dr Sarno's book Healing Back Pain. This book by Howard Schubiner has taken me one step further to include the long term fatigue that I've been experiencing. I'm so grateful to Dr. Schubiner for all his dedication in his healing work and for writing this truly marvellous book! Thank you!!!

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