Living Beyond Lyme: Reclaim Your Life From Lyme Disease and Chronic Illness [Paperback]

Learn to live a rich, vital, and meaningful life despite Lyme disease or chronic illness.Living Beyond Lyme helps patients side-step the often frustrating controversy surrounding Lyme disease. This book instead focuses on living meaningfully, using mindfulness and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) approaches. Whether it is acute or chronic, Lyme disease causes suffering, and ACT, an evidence-based, scientifically driven approach, can help people change their experience of their illness.Joseph J. Trunzo is Professor of Applied Psychology at Bryant University in Rhode Island, USA. Trunzo founded Providence Psychology Services in Providence, RI, where he is a practising psychologist. His research and clinical work focuses on treating anxiety and mood disorders, especially in those suffering from Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses.