Pain arrives uninvited. It changes your posture, your plans, and your perspective. You can fight it, deny it, or learn from it - but you can't ignore it forever. In Pain: The Unwanted Guest, Gary E. Stern confronts the quiet tyranny of physical and emotional suffering with brutal honesty and hard-won wisdom. Drawing from decades as a trial lawyer and martial artist, he exposes how endurance, discipline, and clarity can turn agony into instruction. This isn't a self-help book. It's a survival manual for those who've stopped believing in miracles but still believe in grit. Mr. Stern has lived with agonizing pain, faced it head on and survived.