What if pain, depression and disease weren’t the enemy but the path to self-knowledge, purpose and harmony?

What if they were the key to becoming more alive, more passionately engaged and more connected?

What if you could thrive, not despite emotional and physical suffering, but because of it?

The Pain Paradox is the story of one Chinese Medicine practitioner’s search for the root cause of her patients’ puzzling maladies. Catherine Rolt finds surprising links between long-term conditions, chronic ailments, catastrophic illnesses and our relationships in the past and present.