In The Surrender Agenda, Lorraine Ansell gives a personal account of the chronic pain she is in due to Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Svndrome ("hEDS").

The Surrender Agenda by Lorraine Ansell

The Surrender Agenda by Lorraine Ansell

It is a book of selfdiscovery and self-help for those who are curious about their own pain or the pain of their loved ones. In this witty and honest account, Lorraine Ansell discovers pain for herself after years of distractions and learns how to manage it. 

This book invites you to:

-     Become aware of the invisible tissue condition that is hEDS and the pain that it can cause.

-     Connect with the reality of what it is to live and try to thrive in pain.

-      Discover and develop Surrender Snacks for your own healing-with-pain journey.

By the end of The Surrender Agenda, you will be able to appreciate and understand more about hEDS and consider how to love pain. An unflinchingly honest exploration of chronic and invisible illness that refuses despair or cliché. Provides the language and recognition that readers with chronic pain desperately need, while educating others with unexpected warmth and wit.

Author Lorraine Ansell writer of Surrender Agenda witty moving self-help book on living with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Svndrome (

About the author 

Lorraine Ansell writes books, audio dramas, websites, blogs and much more. This is the first time that she has published a book about her own pain and how she lives her life in pain. As well as talking about her painful condition - Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - which was diagnosed in 2022, Lorraine had a detached retina in 2023 and laser eye surgery three times to save her sight. Always in pain but always smiling, everything hurts and even her fingers do whilst typing this.

What we thought

A book of self discovery, of living with the painful condition Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Svndrome ("hEDS"). A honest and at times witty, reading this book put so much into perspective a wonderful and eye opening book. Natalie Key for Female First

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'Surrender Agenda' by Lorraine Ansell

A self-help, memoir is out now published by Amazon: EB (£3.99) Paperback (£6.99) AB (variable, from £0.99) ISBN: 9781838383084 (PB) 9781838383091 (EB) | ASIN: B0F22Y848QA (AB)


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