Learning to Live with Chronic Illness [Paperback]

Lisa Copen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Learning to live with chronic illness is a journey.

Come with us on this journey as we address the daily issues of living with a chronic condition.

= Discover how to feel more comfortable accepting help from others.

= Learn how to overcome feelings of guilt, moving towards acceptance of God’s grace.

= Find out how to surrender over to God your attempts to control your life.

= Chronic illness often affects one’s body image. Recognize how to base your self-image on how God sees you.

= Understand why even Christians become depressed and how to move on to feeling better.

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About the Author

Lisa Copen is the founder and director of Rest Ministries, a non-profit Christian organization serving people who live with chronic illness or pain.

After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1993, Lisa set out to find GodÂ’s purpose for her illness and how she could use it to make a difference in the lives of people who were hurting. Since 1997, thousands have found hope on the illness journey through Rest Ministries.

She is the founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week http://www.invisibleillness.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Rest Ministries Publishers (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971660026
• ISBN-13: 978-0971660021
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #795,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Copen is the founder of Rest Ministries, the largest Christian organization that specifically serves the chronically ill. She has authored nine books, including resources for over 300 HopeKeepers groups, a small group program of Rest Ministries.

Her newest book is "How to Start a Chronic Illness Small Group Ministry," 320 pages packed full of everything from logistical steps in presenting your idea to the church, to the emotional and spiritual part of deciding if this is something to take on within the limitations your illness may give you.

As editor of HopeKeepers Magazine, founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, and host of Hope Endures radio program Lisa seeks to encourage churches to increase an outreach to the chronically ill nearly 1 in 2 people in the U.S. She was awarded the "Women's Health Hero" Award for 2009 as the "Audience Choice" given by Our Bodies Ourselves.

Lisa is also the designer of Scrapbook My Adoption, providing transparency overlays and other designs for baby books and personalized adoption albums.

Lisa's works have been published in periodicals such as Just Between Us and Faith Writers Magazine, and books including God Allow U-Turns. Lisa is a sought-after speaker and has been a guest of radio programs Decision Today, Family Life and Joni and Friends and national TV programs like "Peace in the Storm" and "Heroes Among Us."

She resides in San Diego with her husband and young son, and has lived with degenerative rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia since 1993.

She is a member of AWSA, a Christian writers and speakers women's group and also helps author with internet marketing tips, presenting marketing ideas and tips at Christian writer's workshops.

Interesting facts? Hmmm. . . Lisa wore the same pair of sandals for over 5 years due to the inability to find shoes that fit her deformed feet from her disease, plus hammer toes. She has been a passenger on the prednisone roller coaster; as her dosages have gone up and down, so has her weight, gaining over 80 pounds, losing it in 2003-2005 and then regaining it. She's currently on the "down cycle" but the steroid continues to make it a fight. She is ready for a new "Author photo" too!

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars learning to Live with Chronic Illness, June 25, 2003

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This review is from: Learning to Live with Chronic Illness (Paperback)

I found this booklet to be very helpful. It asks very good questions and walks you through identifying what you are going through, letting you know you are not alone, and leading you to find the positive in life even through suffering. It explains quite clearly that God does not put suffering on us, but He will help us walk through it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for those with Chronic Illnesses, October 6, 2008

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Learning to Live with Chronic Illness Bible Study

This book is quite helpful. There are only five lessons....I was expecting more...but, my time is so limited BECAUSE OF--Chronic Illness--I realized five is plenty to start with. If you love the Lord, suffer daily, and sometimes feel there is no hope, this is the book for you.