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Chronic Illness Journal Prompt Book
Breath Between Battles is an empowering guided journal inspired by existential therapy, designed to help you navigate the emotional and philosophical challenges of living with chronic illness.
Through thought-provoking prompts, reflective exercises, and space for personal exploration, this journal invites you to confront difficult emotions, embrace your unique story, and redefine what it means to live fully, despite physical limitations. Discover how to process grief, confront fears, and find freedom in making intentional choices.
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The Expanded Life: A Reflective Approach to Living with Chronic Illness
Rather than focusing only on fixing symptoms or returning to the past, this guided workbook helps you learn how to live meaningfully within the life you have now. Drawing from existential philosophy, humanistic philosophy, and a relational approach to personal growth, this book provides a thoughtful framework for understanding your experience and reconnecting with what still matters to you. This workbook acknowledges that living with illness can bring real loss and real uncertainty. It does not offer quick fixes or unrealistic promises. Instead, it provides a supportive process for understanding what you are carrying and finding ways to move forward without needing everything to be resolved first.
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Chemical Undertow: A Guide to Shame and Repair with Medication-Driven Behaviors
Chemical Undertow is the first book to directly address the shame, grief, and relational damage that follows medication-driven behavior change, and to provide a clear, compassionate, and honest framework for the repair work that comes after. Medications of all kinds, including hormonal therapies, psychiatric medications, dopamine agonists, corticosteroids, and others, can significantly alter behavior in ways that are documented, real, and devastating in their aftermath. The person who gambled away a retirement fund while on a Parkinson's medication. The woman whose hormone therapy changed her behavior at work and at home in ways she barely recognizes. The man whose psychiatric medication produced a version of himself that damaged the relationships he valued most.
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The Absurd Body: Existentialism and Living with Chronic Illness
The Absurd Body moves through five existential territories that chronic illness makes unavoidable: the unchosen body and the self built within it; the freedom that persists inside genuine constraint; the absurdity of a situation that does not mean anything and the revolt that is the only honest response; the specific loneliness of being chronically unseen and the hunger for genuine witness; and the confrontation with finitude that chronic illness accelerates and that authentic living requires. Each chapter draws on the full range of thinkers assembled in the book, weaving their ideas through the practical realities of chronic illness rather than treating philosophy as a subject to be surveyed and then applied.
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Dr. Jeff Bone is an author and hosts the podcast, To The Bone: Conversations on Pain, Illness, and Meaning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Kenyon College and earned his doctoral and master's degrees in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego. Dr. Bone has over two decades of experience specializing in the experiential aspects of the human experience of chronic pain and illness. His practice focuses on helping individuals manage the challenges that come with long-term debilitating health issues and helping people rebuild their sense of self and relationships after medication-driven behaviors have resulted in adverse events in their lives. He also helps exhausted family caregivers navigate the emotional and practical challenges of supporting a loved one with chronic illness, so they can reclaim their own well-being without guilt or burnout.
Dr. Bone lives with Common Variable Immune Deficiency, a primary immune disorder triggered by black mold in his office. He has subsequently gained insight into the patient experience, especial one that does not follow the typical decision tree physicians utilize.
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