Coping with Emotional & Physical Pain

Pain is an inevitable part of everyone’s life, and the effective management of pain is critical in people’s life satisfaction and general well-being. Physical pain is any pain experienced in the body signaling something wrong in the body and needing to be fixed. Emotional pain is the feelings associated with an emotional trauma either from the past or present. Both physical pain and emotional pain have potential to cause considerable problems in a person’s life. Both types of pain must be explored and managed in order for people to live satisfying and healthy lives. Sometimes emotional issues manifest as physical discomfort; often physical pain leads to emotional suffering.

Use the assessments and activities in this workbook to help your clients cope more effectively with the physical and emotional pain in their lives. All of the guided activities are fully reproducible.