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SUMMARY:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain
DESCRIPTION:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme\nThe HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme is open for registration. This free\, online 7 week programme can help you develop skills and confidence to manage your condition. \nWorkshop Topics\nTechniques 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. \nTopics include:\nï‚· Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance\nï‚· Balancing activity with rest\nï‚· Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking\nï‚· How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain\nï‚· Negative emotions\nï‚· Healthy eating\nï‚· Appropriate use of medication\nï‚· Working more effectively with health care providers\nï‚· Communicating with friends and family\nï‚· Communicating with the health care system\nï‚· Communicating with oneself\nï‚· Action-planning\, problem-solving\, decision-making \nWhy join the Living Well with pain programme?\nPeople who are supported in this way increase their knowledge\, skills and confidence to better manage their health in partnership with their health care provider(s). \nHow: For more information or to register\, contact the Living Well Team via Email LivingWellDNCC@hse.ie
URL:https://chronicpain.ie/event/hse-living-well-with-chronic-pain/2024-02-29/
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SUMMARY:Chronic Pain Mental Health Support Group
DESCRIPTION:Chronic Pain Mental Health Support Group\nChronic Pain Ireland in partnership with Turn2Me are inviting you to join us on February 29th where we discuss Selfcare\, sleep\, emotional awareness and relationship with the body \nChronic Pain is invisible\, you cannot show it to your doctor\, friends\, or family. There isn’t always a scar or any visual cues to the pain you are suffering. This peer support group is a place where you can seek support from others who suffer with chronic pain and can empathise with what you are going through. At this group we will be looking and discussing ways to improve your:\nï‚· self care\nï‚· sleep\nï‚· emotional awareness\nï‚· your relationship with your body. \nWhy not take that step and communicate via instant chat with people with similar challenges and experiences you have. The group is completely anonymous offering you safety and a chance to be honest and authentic with what you are going through and hear from other Chronic Pain Ireland members what has helped them and how they manage. Remember living with chronic pain\, is day by day\, slow and steady. \nThe above group is open to current members of Chronic Pain Ireland.  Not a member – visit https://chronicpain.ie/become-a-member/ \nAbout this partnership Chronic Pain Ireland has partnered with Turn2Me an Irish online mental health charity that provides free\, anonymous and confidential online professional health services via their website www.Turn2Me.ie  As part of this partnership\, we will be offering members of Chronic Pain Ireland access to an online support group that specifically addresses chronic pain and the impact and issues that can arise as a result.
URL:https://chronicpain.ie/event/chronic-pain-mental-health-support-group/
LOCATION:online\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Mental Health Group: Self-Care & Sleep in Chronic Pain
DESCRIPTION:Mental Health Group: Self-Care & Sleep in Chronic Pain\nThis month we focus on selfcare\, sleep\, emotional awareness and the relationship with the body\nChronic Pain Ireland has partnered with Turn2Me an Irish online mental health charity that provides free\, anonymous and confidential online professional health services.  We’ve partnered to offer a series of specific chronic pain and mental health group sessions which at present are available to members of Chronic Pain Ireland. This month we are focusing on selfcare\, sleep\, emotional awareness and the relationship with the body \nChronic Pain Group sessions – Chronic Pain is invisible\, you cannot show it to your doctor\, friends\, or family. There isn’t always a scar or any visual cues to the pain you are suffering. This peer support group is a place where you can seek support from others who suffer with chronic pain and can empathise with what you are\ngoing through. At this group we will be looking and discussing ways to improve your:\nï‚· self care\nï‚· sleep\nï‚· emotional awareness\nï‚· your relationship with your body. \nWhy not take that step and communicate via instant chat with people with similar challenges and experiences you have. The group is completely anonymous offering you safety and a chance to be honest and authentic with what you are going through and hear from other members what has helped them and how they manage. Remember living with chronic pain\, is day by day\, slow and steady. To join this group you need to register as a user with Turn2Me and then register for the group in advance of the scheduled date and time. Well done\, we look forward to virtually meeting you. \nChronic Pain Ireland in partnership with Turn2Me will facilitate a specific ‘chronic pain group counselling support group’ on the last Thursday evening of every month at 7pm.  This service is available to current members of Chronic Pain Ireland. \nIf you would like to learn more about CPI membership see here \nAbout Turn2Me: \nTurn2Me is supported by the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention to deliver counselling online. Turn2me is a national mental health charity that was founded in 2009 by Oisin and Diarmuid Scollard\, who tragically lost their brother\, Cormac\, to suicide in 2003. Turn2me offers adult counselling and support group services to adults and young people aged 12 plus. Turn2Me has helped over 120\,000 people since it was set up in 2009. Turn2Me offers up to six free counselling sessions to adults living in Ireland. \nTurn2Me also offer a wide range of online mental health supports that the general public can access online – To sign up or for more details please visit www.Turn2Me.ie  \n 
URL:https://chronicpain.ie/event/mental-health-group-self-care-sleep-in-chronic-pain/
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SUMMARY:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain
DESCRIPTION:HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme\nThe HSE Living Well with Chronic Pain programme is open for registration. This free\, online 7 week programme can help you develop skills and confidence to manage your condition. \nWorkshop Topics\nTechniques 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. \nTopics include:\nï‚· Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength and endurance\nï‚· Balancing activity with rest\nï‚· Tools for overcoming worst-case thinking\nï‚· How our minds affect pain and how we can use our minds to lessen pain\nï‚· Negative emotions\nï‚· Healthy eating\nï‚· Appropriate use of medication\nï‚· Working more effectively with health care providers\nï‚· Communicating with friends and family\nï‚· Communicating with the health care system\nï‚· Communicating with oneself\nï‚· Action-planning\, problem-solving\, decision-making \nWhy join the Living Well with pain programme?\nPeople who are supported in this way increase their knowledge\, skills and confidence to better manage their health in partnership with their health care provider(s). \nHow: For more information or to register\, contact the Living Well Team via Email LivingWellDNCC@hse.ie
URL:https://chronicpain.ie/event/hse-living-well-with-chronic-pain-2/2024-02-29/
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