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Editorial Review: This award winning book is a must-read migraine sufferers and health care practitioners who work with migraine patients. Unlike any other headache book, Migraines Be Gone teaches migraine sufferers how to overcome their migraines using a step-by-step approach to balancing the nervous system. Clinically proven safe and effective, anyone committed to eliminating their migraines naturally can master these seven simple steps. Praise for Migraines Be Gone... Endorsements
Kelsie Kenefick's Migraines Be Gone is a wise, effective program that can help eliminate this scourge from one's life. It is based in good science and good medicine and will be a godsend to many.
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Healing Words, and chief editor of the Journal of Science and Healing
Kelsie's expertise in treating migraine patients is as apparent as her powerful, yet gentle, approach towards bringing balan...
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Migraines are (mostly) gone!, 2008-06-30
After reading this book, I went from headaches/migraines (the gut-wrenching, light-noise-smell-phobic, 'Please let me die to put an end to this misery' kind) 5-6 times a week requiring - often strong - medications, to a much less severe version once a week, maybe twice, if I am under a lot of stress and/or if there are profound changes in weather and/or if I get lax or careless in applying at least some of the seven steps - including biofeedback - every day. All this happened gradually within a time-span of 1-3 months.
True, when a migraine is rearing its ugly head, it is still necessary to reach for medication(s). But this book gives headache sufferers the tools to play an active part in working on preventing headaches from occuring. It puts the reader in charge of choosing to deal actively with this dreadful illness, to be proactive rather than reactive.
There are still times, especially when I have been painfree for several days in a row, that my new-found self-discipline and commitment go out the window and I forget to stretch, to do the deep-breathing and deep-relaxation and biofeedback exercises, etc., and I just go back to life as it was before I read the book, and more often than not, I suffer the consequences. There really is a marked difference!
This book is not a quick fix but a guideline for helping you to help yourself until at least some of the seven steps become a part of your life. Five months into the journey I am just at the beginning, but in this relatively short period of time (compared to three decades of misery), I have experienced enough positive changes to keep me going. I am learning to effectively deal with headaches in particular as well as - bonus! - life's adversities in general.
Thank you, Kelsie Kenefick, for taking the time to write a book full of immensely useful information!
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Simple, empowering, and healing, 2008-04-03
The National Headache Foundation says, "Behavioral techniques like these are used in headache centers around the world and can work wonders in reducing migraines. The steps in Migraines Be Gone are broken down into a dozen simple and well-described lessons. Kelsie makes the exercises easy to integrate into one's daily life..." Indeed, I believe that Kelsie's program is a gift to migraine sufferers around the world. She has created the only comprehensive biofeedback-based program that I have seen and has set up the program so that anyone can do it on their own. Her relaxation CDs are the best I have heard and her voice is the most soothing and relaxing voice imaginable! I go to sleep every night listening to her CDs... and I sleep like an angel!
Kenefick is a biofeedback therapist who draws on thirty of years of study in mind-body medicine, yoga and psychology, and fourteen years specializing in the treatment of migraine, to create the seven-step program outlined in the book.
The National Headache Foundation goes on to say, "The seven steps include: making a commitment to create new habits through the program; understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in regards to migraine; calming the body and mind through breathing, relaxation and imagery exercises; learning to relax the shoulder, neck, eye and jaw muscles; using thoughts to heal through affirmations; and increasing your circulation through temperature training (biofeedback)." I have personally experienced Kelsie's work and her program is nothing short of brilliant. She has put it together in a way that anyone who is motivated can follow her program and master the skills she teaches.
The National Headache Foundation says, " 'This book is essentially about creating new habits,' Kenefick writes. She's not referring to eating or smoking, but to habits that most of us think we have no control over--our autonomic nervous system. This is the "automatic" part of our nervous system that controls such bodily functions as blood flow and heart rate. The autonomic nervous system is also responsible for the "fight or flight" state that so many of us experience as a result of daily stresses. Too much time in this state can push the already sensitive migraine brain into migraine attacks."
As an M.D., I have treated hundreds of migraine patients over the years and am witness to the struggles migraineurs encounter when they rely on pharmaceuticals alone. The Migraines Be Gone Program is the perfect compliment. This is a book about empowerment for individuals who are ready to take responsibility for their health and well-being. A true gift to migraine sufferers everywhere... bravo to Kelsie Kenefick!
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What a great book, 2008-04-01
I use the techniques in the book when I drive -- or I should say when I'm caught in traffic. If these techniques work for me while in tourist traffic in South Florida during tourist season, they can work for anyone, anywhere. Thank you Ms. kenefick
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Excellent resource, 2008-03-31
I have personally worked with the author. She is a very knowledgable and compassionate professional who brings a diverse spectrum to her clients and readers.
I highly recommend that you buy this book. It is obviously written by one of the field's finest experts on pain management.
P.C. Natural Therapeutic Specialist
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A must read for migraine sufferers!, 2008-03-19
Migraines Be Gone is an excellent book that is packed with do-it-yourself information. Today's health care teaches a passive approach to treating health problems, and as millions of migraine sufferers have learned, this passive approach has very serious limitations when it comes to relieving migraines. It can actually make migraines worse in the long run. Migraines Be Gone is exactly what you need to start taking control of your migraines. I highly recommend this book to all of my patients with migraines.
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