Whether you are a patient or a caregiver, we are inviting our haemochromatosis community to sign up to FREE online workshops on ‘Living Well with Chronic Pain’. The Association, in partnership with the HSE is delivering these workshops for patients.
The programme aims to help people better manage their health and daily life. The sessions will give participants the skills to co-ordinate all the things needed to manage our health as well as keep active in our lives and relationships. The Living Well programme will support you to develop and enhance the skills that help you to live well with a long term chronic pain condition. Two trained leaders run the workshops. Our first workshop started in March, but due to demand, the HSE our partners have put on a second workshop for patients and their carers, starting on the 22nd April. To register and for contact information, please see Leah Harrington’s details below.
Topics also include:
Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance
Balancing activity with rest
Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking
How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain
Negative emotions
Healthy eating
Appropriate use of medication
Working more effectively with health care providers
Communicating with friends and family
Communicating with the health care system
Communicating with oneself
Action-planning, problem-solving, decision-making
You will also learn techniques to deal with symptoms of chronic pain conditions, such as fatigue,sleeplessness, stress, and emotional problems such as depression, anger, fear, and frustration, with emphasis on cognitive behavioural therapy techniques for managing pain.
For more information on how to sign up to these free online workshops:
Contact Leah Harrington, Living Well Coordinator: Registration email: LivingWellDNCC@hse.ie; Leah’s email: leah.harrington@hse.ie. Contact phone: 087 365 4392
