Celeste Cooper is a retired RN, author, blogger, pain advocate as a participant in PAINSproject.org, patient and fibromyalgia expert at Sharecare.com.

She has a BSN and degree as a Legal Nurse Consultant in Paralegal Studies. She practiced as a board certified emergency nurse, critical care, manager, and educator and she was an expert witness for both the plaintiff and defendant. She wrote continuing education programs for the Missouri State Board of Nursing, was a member of the American Society for Hospital Education and Training, a member of the Emergency Nurses Association, a member of the Legal Nurse Consultant organization, and was an affiliate faculty for the American Heart Association.

Celeste has contributed health articles to advocate and medical journals, has a genuine love for writing, believes in using her voice as a patient advocate, encourages physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance, while considering bioethical practices.

She is lead author of Integrative Therapies for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myofascial Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (co-author, Jeff Miller, PhD), and Celeste is the lead author of the Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See Saw of Chronic Pain Devotional Series (co-author Jeff Miller, PhD)

Because of her own health struggles with chronic pain, she has found opportunity in adversity and a way to carry through with her life's purpose of helping others. She enjoys writing self help books and poetry, she is an amateur photographer, and feels the best when she is able to connect with nature. Celeste has a true appreciation for humanity, empathy, and all living things.

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter & bleed.”
~ Ernest Hemingway

You can visit her Amazon author page at http://amazon.com/author/celestecooper