Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Managing Fatigue

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 Master's 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.

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
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