Online promotional activity on PiatkusBooks.net A BBC report in January 2012 by David Sillito on using mindfulness to control pain attracted a huge amount of interest and significantly boosted sales of existing mindfulness titles
Dr Danny Penman is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked for the BBC and The Independent newspaper. He is a feature and comment writer for the London Daily Mail. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism. He is co-author of the bestselling Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world (Piatkus).Vidyamala Burch is founder and co-Director of Breathworks, an organisation offering mindfulness-based and compassion-based approaches to living well with chronic pain, illness and stress. In 2008 she published Living Well with Pain and Illness: the mindful way to ease your suffering (Piatkus) which is based on the Breathworks programme. She has also produced led meditation CDs and booklets available through Breathworks.
A beautiful and compassionate book, Mindfulness for Health
will put you back in touch with the extraordinary person you
already are * Professor Mark Williams, University of Oxford *
This book provides an extremely effective and elegant mind-body
approach to healing . . . Highly recommended * Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD,
author of Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses *
In a world of much suffering, this book is a gift of wisdom and
practical help * Professor Paul Gilbert, PhD, OBE, author of The
Compassionate Mind and Mindful Compassion, Derbyshire Healthcare
NHS Foundation Trust, UK *
If you have chronic pain or another persistent health problem, if
you struggle, feel stuck or feel alone, read and follow this book.
It will encourage, guide and liberate you * Lance M. McCracken,
PhD, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, King's College London *
An excellent resource for people in the community who live with
pain and long-term health conditions, and also for those
health-care professionals who support them * Peter Moore, co-author
of the Pain Toolkit *
Through simple exercises, well explained and prepared . . . they
guide the reader through the principles and practice of mindfulness
applied to pain, and towards self-understanding, gentle control and
connectedness * Dr Amanda C de C Williams, Reader in Clinical
Health Psychology, University College London *
Vidyamala and Danny have written an inspiring book . . . It is
alive with heart-warming stories and practical and engaging ways of
managing your distress and finding more joy, peace, wisdom and
compassion for yourself and others - from day one of this excellent
programme. It is a guidebook for thriving and not just surviving
each day * Timothea Goddard, MBSR teacher, Psychotherapist -
Openground, Australia *
Mindfulness for Health offers those who struggle with the
painful loss of health much support to become more alive and
compassionate and not trapped by pain and ill health. This truly
resourceful book will help people grow their own sense of self . .
. and lessen their suffering * Dr Frances Cole, GP, Pain
Rehabilitation Specialist and CBT therapist, Leeds Community Trust,
Spinal Pain Management Service, UK *
Thoughtful and practical . . . This will be an important resource
for the mindfulness community * Dr Elizabeth Foley, Senior MBCT
Facilitator & Researcher, Sydney, Australia *
Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman . . . show how the benefits of
mindfulness can bring a different kind of healing so that the
mind-body can be calmed, focused, refreshed and renewed * Liz Lobb,
Professor of Palliative Care, Sydney, Australia *
Mindfulness offers a distinctly compassionate and authentic way to
reconcile our experiences of pain . . . I would really encourage
you to give yourself eight weeks with this book. You will be
rewarded with a profound change * Dr Margaret Macky, FAFOEM,
Occupational Medicine Specialist, New Zealand *
Meeting pain with the "tender gravity of kindness" is courageous
and transformative. Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman "walk the
talk"; they invite people suffering pain to reclaim their lives
through this accessible, personal, wise and eminently
commonsensical guide * Willem Kuyken, Professor of Clinical
Psychology, University of Exeter *
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