Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness

Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents. Each chapter contains highlights of interviews with women dealing with chronic conditions ranging from cancer to organ transplant, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), MS, Cushing's disease, diabetes, and others. Plus, find helpful life advice on how to: - Stop pushing yourself so hard - Use research to empower―not frighten―yourself - Let yourself be pissed - Train your troops in how to care for you - Cultivate focus and flexibility - Find things to be grateful for - Focus on what you can do, not what you can't