A new book by Lisa Jones · Coming Thursday 11th March
A Brain–Mind–Body Approach to Living with Chronic Illness and Creating a Life That Still Feels Like Yours
When Your Body Says No But Life Goes On
For anyone living with chronic illness who has been dismissed, misdiagnosed or told it’s probably stress or in your head. Psychotherapist Lisa Jones draws on more than thirty years of living with chronic illness herself plus years of clinical practice to explain how everything is connected, why your nervous system has learned to stay on high alert, and how to build a life that still feels like yours using her Reframe.Rebuild and Regulate framework.
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The Book
What the book is about
If you live with chronic illness, you know the physical symptoms are only part of it. There’s the exhaustion of explaining yourself to people who can’t see what you’re carrying, the appointments that leave you feeling worse than when you walked in, and the grief for the version of your life you’d planned.
Grounded in neuroscience but written with warmth and honesty, this book takes you on a three part journey: understanding what is happening when your body says no looking at the brain-mind-body connection, regulating your nervous system in ways that are achievable using practical tools to work with, and rebuilding a life that feels meaningful, joyful and like yours.
This book is for you if:
- A doctor or healthcare professional has dismissed you or told you your symptoms aren’t real
- You live with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, hEDS, dysautonomia, endometriosis or an autoimmune condition, and there’s no map for the emotional side of it
- Chronic stress has worn you down and you miss the person you used to be
- You want real tools, not empty reassurance
- You’re a therapist, GP or healthcare professional who wants to understand your patients better
The approach behind the book: Regulate, Reframe, Rebuild
Part One
Regulate
Understand why your body responds the way it does, what your nervous system is doing and learn to bring it out of high alert. Using practical, evidence-based techniques to manage flare-ups, build genuine stability day by day so you feel calmer and more in control.
Part Two
Reframe
Look at the patterns running your responses, including the ones learned from years of pain, stress and being disbelieved and change the ones that no longer help you. Let go of the identity that illness has forced on you and begin to reconnect with you truly are beyond your diagnosis.
Part Three
Rebuild
Create a new life built around what matters to you in the body you have now and that leaves space for hope and joy.
Also inside:
- A chapter on medical gaslighting: what it is, why it causes harm, and why your instincts were right
- A chapter on the nervous system and chronic illness
- A chapter on redefining what a good life looks like
- How you can find purpose within the pain
BACP Senior Accredited . 15+ years’ experience . EMDR Therapist . Qualified Supervisor
About the author
Why Lisa wrote this book
Lisa Jones is senior accredited integrative therapist and coach who has been in private practice for over ten years, working in Wilmslow and online. She blends counselling, psychotherapy, EMDR, coaching and applied neuroscience to help people understand the connection between the brain, mind and body.
She has also lived with chronic illness for most of her life. Misdiagnosed for years, she spent a decade believing she had left it behind, and built her career around that recovery. Then in her forties, perimenopause and Covid arrived together and the symptoms came flooding back. She had to start again, and this time she used everything she knew as a psychotherapist to understand what was happening in her body, and why.
She knows what it’s like to be dismissed, disbelieved and left to figure it out on her own. She also knows what it feels like to find a way through. This is the book she needed at her lowest: one that explained how everything is connected, and showed her a way to build a life that still felt like hers.
How the launch works
Get a glimpse
November
Join the waitlist and Chapter One comes straight to your inbox.
Cover reveal
end of November.
See the finished cover before it goes on sale.
Launch day:
11th March 2027
The Kindle edition and paperback go live on Amazon. Pre-order the Kindle edition and it lands on your device that morning. If the book helps you, an honest review on Amazon is the best way to help the next reader find it.
Signed copies:
From 1st April 2027
Order a signed paperback direct from Lisa through this site. A good one for gifting to someone who needs it.
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Stress Heads
Lisa’s 12-month programme for people who want to keep going after the book. Each month covers one theme, from stress and anxiety to sleep, rest, social connection, and meaning and purpose. You get a themed email, a workbook, a live call with Lisa and guests, and a reflection to close the month. Content comes in written, audio and video formats. £25 a month.
Work with Lisa one to one
Regulate, Reframe, Rebuild is Lisa’s signature one-to-one therapy, built on the same framework as the book. Sessions are 60 minutes, in person in Wilmslow and Alderley Edge or online, and it starts with a free 30-minute call.
Get a glimpse!
Join the waitlist and the first Chapter comes to you in November, followed by the cover reveal and the launch-day email with the link.