The Pain Companion is a practical guidebook to living with and moving beyond chronic pain based on the author’s 8 years of managing debilitating nerve pain. It contains a wealth of insights and wisdom to help mitigate the impact that living with chronic pain has on well being, self-image and relationships. It includes 33 specific ways to alleviate pain’s emotional, mental, and physical stresses, and 11 easy meditative exercises to help change the relationship with pain from enemy to ally in healing.