Give Your Pain the Space to Speak
COMING SPRING 2025
Walk through people’s stories and how they learned to name their particular pains. Discover how all of them found a way to name their hurts on their way to becoming more of their true selves—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
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How will this book help me?
Uncover your hurts
Pinpoint and define the hidden pain that’s holding you back.
Name your pain
Accurately describe and validate your feelings.
Reclaim your identity
Distinguish yourself from the false stories your pain has created.
Embrace your healing
Release the pain that no longer serves you and step into your truth.
In Your Pain Has a Name, Monica offers a compassionate, open space for you to give voice to your pain. With the nurturing curiosity often found in a therapist’s office, she will help you:
“A tender and winsome resource for healing.”
— AUNDI KOLBER, MA, LPC, Therapist,
and Author of Try Softer and Strong like Water
“Monica DiCristina writes from a deep well of healing brilliance both from a therapist’s perspective and as someone who has had to name her own pain.”
—DR. TERENCE LESTER,
founder of Love Beyond Walls and author of I See You
“For anyone who feels ready to rewrite the narratives that cause harm . . .this book is your first step!”
—NICOLE ZASOWSKI,
licensed marriage and family therapistand author of What If It’s Wonderful?
Therapist Monica DiCristina brings proven psychology techniques to readers looking to understand and embrace their pain so they can begin to heal and move forward with a full life ahead of them.
Monica DiCristina became a therapist after one changed her life. Up until that point she had spent years struggling mentally and emotionally without understanding. She never wanted anyone else to struggle alone in the ways she had. In her work as a therapist, though, she encountered a daunting adversary, one she knew well herself—unnamed pain. Those who came to her office had pain that was confusing or that they didn’t fully understand. In that lack of understanding, they often believed narratives about themselves that were harsh and untrue. Along the way, those narratives got mixed up with their identity, who they believed themselves to be.
Familiar with the problem of unnamed pain, Monica set out to understand it and show others how to do so too. Not every pain can be healed, but most every pain can be understood. And it is in that understanding that we find more freedom, and our way back home to ourselves. She decided the only way to deal with pain was to face it, which meant not just acknowledging it but also honoring and defining it. Doing so empowered people to separate who they were from the stories pain had told them. They were able to unearth who they were from the rubble of what hurts. They could see, possibly for the first time, a glint of the untarnished self that has been there all along.