Zinnia,
I too have found the stop and go method to be most effective right now. I beats the stop method I was in for many months. We are about the same time period into this illness. My injury was 11/17/14. Who knows when the CRPS actually developed, that is the day my life changed. There will always be a before and after. It was unfortunately a defining moment, a dividing line.
Just listened to some Jim Croce a few days ago. Music has been one of my saving graces since this happened (actually before too), but somedays it has been the slender thread that has kept me going. I have a playlist entitled Lyrica from the first spacey days on that drug, James Taylor, Cat Stevens. etc.. The drug is gone thank goodness, bit I still enjoy the playlist.
Glad you are traveling the road of peace and acceptance. As Ringo says,"you know it don't come easy." ~mac