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Acknowledgements Foreword Professor Rebecca Crane Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1: Fatigue and the principles of a mindfulness based approach to self-management Chapter 2 Fatigue based health conditions: ME/CFS. Fibromyalgia and Long Covid Chapter 3 Pragmatic transdiagnostic understanding of ME/CFS/FMS/LC Chapter 4 Supported self-management Chapter 5 What is a mindfulness-based approach? Chapter 6 Mindfulness based approach to self -management Chapter 7 Managing cognitive challenges : brain fog and mindfulness Chapter 8 Underlying processes in mindfulness Chapter 9 Resourcing and regulating: a trauma-informed approach Part 2: Mindfulness practices and teaching considerations: adaptation and nuance Chapter 10 The structure of mindfulness practices in the fatigue programme Chapter 11 Developing awareness though enquiry. Chapter 12 Mindful movement - how does it feel when I move? With Sarah Nearney Chapter 13 Mindfulness of thoughts - particular features and specific contents of thoughts Part 3: Applying a mindfulness-based approach to life Chapter 14 Mindfulness-based activity management Chapter 15 Rest - what is it and how do we do it? Part 4: The mindfulness-based course Chapter 16 Practical considerations: zoom or room and initial interviews and follow up Chapter 17 Weekly session outlines with rationale Chapter 18 Living with fatigue: From doing to Being by Rhonda Knight Chapter 19 Training and Supervision Chapter 20 Summary and Resources References Author and contributor information
Fiona McKechnie is a senior Occupational Therapist in the Bristol ME/CFS service. She has worked in the field of ME since 1999 before moving to Bristol in 2007. She has particular interests in employment concerns and ME/CFS as well as Mindfulness-based approaches. Fiona has run workshops at national conferences about mindfulness and employment and trains other professionals in approaches to support people with ME/CFS and chronic pain. She has personally used Mindfulness since 1992 and has a Masters degree in Mindfulness Based Approaches and a Diploma in Teaching Mindfulness from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. She has also taught mindfulness for people with cancer at the National Centre for Integrative Medicine and is a qualified yoga teacher and coach. She published (as Fiona Wright) a chapter on Sleep and ME/CFS in Sleep: an Occupational Therapists Guide by Green and Brown 2015, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.