First place winner in the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Named Quarterfinalist for the 2025 BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest
Named 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
Named Finalist in the 2025/2026 Canadian Book Club AwardsTransform your life and find relief from pain with
Fix the Fire Damage: Your go-to guide when pain first strikes. Easily searchable by body region, this book serves as your personalized pain toolbox, offering gentle, easy-to-follow Action Plans designed to change your life in an instant.
When you feel immobilized by pain but know you need to do something, this guide helps you find immediate relief with safe, practical Action Plans. Decrease suffering and transform the trajectory of each pain episode with support from over 100 photos, illustrations, and diagrams.
Learn how to address the three different types of pain triggers: body mechanics, body chemistry, and stress biology. Find relief in the middle of the night, on weekends or holidays, or anytime you can't see your providers. Use this guide to address pain at its earliest stages and reduce suffering before it escalates.
Included in this book:
- Easy-to-follow Action Plans for immediate relief
- Over 100 photos, illustrations, and diagrams to guide you
- Guidance for addressing the three types of pain triggers: body mechanics, body chemistry, and stress biology
Don't wait any longer to find relief from pain. Get your copy of
Fix the Fire Damage now—before your next flare-up.
Praise for Fix the Fire Damage:"...an exhaustive guidebook, brimming with practicality, that covers a wide range of physical wellbeing principles."
—The BookLife Prize (Publishers Weekly)"Finally—a guide that respects the complexity of pain while remaining practical and accessible.
Fix the Fire Damage equips patients with actionable strategies grounded in a three-pronged, biopsychosocial model. For providers, this book fills the gap between acute episodes and formal care, offering relief and reassurance when patients need it most."
—David Hanscom, MD Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Founder, Vertus, Inc."
Fix the Fire Damage offers something rare: clear, grounded guidance for moments when pain feels chaotic and overwhelming. It doesn't rush to fix or bypass the experience. Instead, it meets people right in the thick of it, offering tools that help the brain and body settle. This thoughtful, compassionate approach reflects a deep understanding of what it's like to feel unsafe in your own body—and how to begin feeling safe again."
—Vanessa Blackstone, MSW Executive Director, Pain Psychology Center; Co-author, The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook"This book offers useful resources for people seeking self-help strategies for musculoskeletal pain. Used alongside professional clinical care, it provides practical ideas for supporting recovery."
—Bronwyn Lennox Thompson, PhD, MSc (Psych), DipOT Academic Lead, Postgraduate Pain Programmes, University of Otago, New Zealand
YA-LING J. LIOU is an evidence-based chiropractic physician with more than three decades of clinical experience. The Everyday Pain Guide series distills not just a vast body of knowledge but also her collective experience as an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University and, prior to that, while instructing massage therapy students in anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology. Dr. Liou now lives, works, and writes in Seattle.
