October 2007
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Dear Colleague,
In this issue of my email newsletter, I
celebrate the publication of my new book
Reversing Chronic Pain with a press
release, and hope that you will share the
news about this groundbreaking book with your
friends and colleagues.
Also in this issue, I announce my forthcoming
interactive website and teleseminar series as
well as summarize some important results from
the front lines of pain research (and offer
some tips on reversing chronic pain).
And finally, I offer a report on my travels in
Europe during September, and hope to see
some of you at
upcoming conferences in Germany and Arizona.
Warmest Wishes,
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The Book is Out! |
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I'm happy to report that my new book,
Reversing Chronic Pain is officially
on the market. I am including a press release
that you can send to your friends (or to your
clients if you are a practitioner). I am
pleased that so many people have asked to
write reviews and I will be contacting those
of you who have volunteered as soon as I have
access to complimentary books that I can get
out to you.
Here are more endorsements by well-known
authors in the pain, trauma and energy
healing worlds:
"Maggie Phillips has written the first truly
multi-modal, mind-body therapy self-help book
for people with chronic pain. She offers
usable, nuts-and-bolts techniques that can be
used by readers in pain and pain
professionals alike. I could not put this
book down." -- Bruce N. Eimer, PhD, ABPP,
author of Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain
Now and Pain Management Psychotherapy
"Reversing Chronic Pain is a
tremendously helpful guide for dissolving
fear and trauma that perpetuate chronic pain.
Maggie Phillips's gentle and soothing style
is wonderfully reassuring and healing. Simply
reading this book will lend some relief, but
when you use the techniques, well-deserved
miracles are bound to happen." -- Fred Gallo,
PhD, author of Energy Psychology and
Energy Tapping for Trauma
Order the book online at amazon.com.
Click here to access the press release for this book.
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Coming Soon |
Live Teleseminars: |
October 31
November 28
December 12
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My staff and I are working on a new website
that will offer interactive support for
Reversing Chronic Pain. There will be
an opportunity to access new material created
since I wrote the book, including new
advances in the treatment of pain, a series
of interactive learning modules that
supplement each chapter of Reversing
Chronic Pain and feature audio and video
clips, an online support group, and opportunities
to share tips and wisdom readers discover as
they work through the book and web learning
program. The site will also post radio
interviews and clips from some of my
workshops on pain. Please watch for updates
in this newsletter.
There are also a series of teleseminars (or
conference calls) scheduled to give readers
who prefer this format an opportunity to ask
questions, receive ideas for applying the
methods in Reversing Chronic Pain, and
learn from other readers. Please visit my
website at www.maggiephillipsphd.com
to get more information and enroll.
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News From the Pain Front |
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Most articles written recently about the
treatment of pain emphasize the importance of
educating patients about the mechanics of
pain. For example, nerve pain is considered
one of the hardest types of pain to treat,
but do you know why? One of the reasons is
that injury, and the pain that results, can
change sensory nerves, causing them to send
out false alarms that feel real but are in
fact error messages. Pain signals can also
become embedded in the spinal cord like any
other type of painful memory. When this
happens, a hypersensitivity called
windup results from changes in
nerve chemistry. This means that all pain is
experienced as more severe and sensations
that were not painful before become so.
What can be done? It is very important to
find treatment that works as soon as
possible. For some people, this can mean
using adequate medication. Many patients
believe that once they receive a diagnosis,
this will lead to cure that can take the pain
away. Sadly, this is not the case.
It is important to understand the mechanics
of pain but also to realize that all pain,
regardless of where it is located, operates
in roughly the same fashion. Most leading
pain experts recommend that patients focus on
self-treatment which might include specific
exercises, nutritional changes and
supplements, homeopathic remedies, and simple
focusing on body experience. It is amazing
how breathing techniques, for example, can
shift pain temporarily and permanently once
the methods are fully integrated by the body.
Reversing Chronic Pain features lots
of these simple practice exercises.
Recovery from pain requires self-acceptance
of current circumstances before forward
progress can be made, and most pain patients
make the mistake of doing too much too soon
as they begin feeling better, then relapsing
and finding it harder each time to propel
themselves forward again. For example, it
might be best to increase daily exercise by
ONE minute per week, starting with 5 minutes
or less until that workout feels comfortable.
Remember, in this case, more really is less.
If you stop a physical or mental focusing
session wanting more of the experience, you
will be more likely to continue on a regular
basis. It is far more effective to focus on
small successes than to focus on what is not
working. For extra help in developing this
kind of attitude toward self-treatment, you
may want to sign up for a teleseminar to
examine what isn't working for you (see www.maggiephillipsphd.com),
or to plan to explore the interactive web
tutorials on the new website (coming soon).
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More Travels |
Upcoming Presentations |
November 15-18
Bad Lippspringe
Germany
December 5-8 Phoenix Arizona
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I am just returning from another teaching
trip. During this time, I was one of the four
keynote speakers at a trauma conference in
Bad Honnef, Germany, joining colleagues Onno
van der Hart and Ellert Nijenhuis from the
Netherlands and Luise Reddeman from Germany.
It was a wonderful conference, and I was able
to present some of the methods from my new
pain book as well as to share my belief in
the importance of working to unify a self
divided by past trauma, which can create a
variety of symptoms including chronic
emotional and physical pain. I also presented
similar information at the first Energy
Psychology conference in Germany held in
Heidelberg. There were excellent speakers,
including Fred Gallo and many others from the
EP world.
In between, I taught a workshop in Paris on
The Body as the Ultimate Healer of Trauma and
Pain and led a consultation group in the use
of Ego-State Therapy in Rottweil, Germany.
It was an inspiring trip, and I am grateful
for these professional opportunities. It was
good to see many of you during these events.
From November 15-18, I will be presenting at
the annual conference of the DGH, one of the
German hypnosis societies, in Bad
Lippspringe, Germany (for more information,
visit dgh-hypnose.de).
If you are in the US, I
will be teaching at the Ericksonian hypnosis
conference in Phoenix from December 5-8 (for
more information, visit www.erickson-foundation.org/10thCongress).
Both
presentations will focus on using the methods
in my new book to resolve and even reverse
persistent and chronic pain conditions.
Please join me if you can.
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Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
2768 Darnby Dr.
Oakland, CA 94611
USA
510-655-3843
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