Book Review: Life Beyond Chronic Pain

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In February of 2016, I released my book Life Beyond Chronic Pain: The Step-By-Step Guide to Healing Chronic Illness Naturally. It’s done well on Amazon Kindle so far, and it has gotten great reviews. I’m very proud of its success! Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Instagram, and I was inspired by a particularly interesting spoonie who is incredibly open and honest about their daily struggles with various conditions. Knowing this person was struggling mightily with chronic pain, I was more than happy to send them a free copy of my e-book. Then, as I continued to follow them, I realized there was no way in hell they’d be able to actually focus on the book at all. Therefore, they would receive no benefit from it. Which meant others

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