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And she's Canadian....

This is a truly groundbreaking piece of work. Annie Hopper suggests that we can recover from chronic and mysterious illnesses, (Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, Lyme, food sensitivities) by remapping the neural networks within. The book is the story about how she cured herself, and has countless tales of others who have been unrelentingly medically compromised, and the endless round of doctors couldn't find or fix what was wrong. It also explains the science and philosophy behind the neural training program, and how it works and why. I thought it was great, and I used it with a patient one year ago, in conjunction with the work we were doing towards healing. I've seen and believed that this direction is onto something important.

My one beef with Annie Hopper's work, is her critique of psychotherapy, and unable to shift the neural networks, and trapping a patient in an unrelenting cycle of trauma. This is just not the case. All of the cutting edge work in psychology is in neuroscience and the neurobiology of relationships And this informs our work. Our aim, in all of the differing modalities and techniques, is not to keep people stuck in old patterns, neural or otherwise, but to have them move in a new way, and truly move towards healing. I believe healing from trauma is as possible as healing from chronic medical illness, and in fact that's the basis of the paper and presentation I am writing right now. How these two overlap, and can work in conjunction with one another. They are mirror images, and are complimentary to one another. And I have the stories too, to prove it. In any case, I would recommend this book to anyone, and already have. Nice job, Annie, and congratulations on your good and sustained health, the journey it took to get there, and on your wonderful groundbreaking book.

Amy wrote: "And she's Canadian....

My one beef with Annie Hopper's work, is her critique of psychotherapy, and unable to shift the neural networks, and trapping a patient in an unrelenting cycle of trauma. This is just not the case. ."

Well, on the one hand, there are definitely many conditions that CAN be overcome by remapping neural networks, and it has been proven that a positive attitude, etc, increases the odds of beating many health issues including cancer, it is inaccurate to say that this will always be the case with evryone of the things mentioned here.

That said, I think there is an important place for neural retraining because it can be an extremely healthy way to overcome things when it works--no meds, etc.

Wonderful review Amy. I agree that this can work. Having experienced trauma as a young child I can attest to this. I would like to read this book I think.