My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain


Non-Fiction - Self Help
242 Pages
Reviewed on 03/15/2014
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Author Biography

Rebecca experienced poverty and abuse at a very early age, while coping with prolonged periods of immense stress. As a consequence, she suffered the debilitating illness of fibromyalgia for seven years, until she developed a protocol of techniques, through which she was able to overcome many symptoms completely, including chronic pain. She was able to use these same techniques to aid her recovery and help manage the pain following surgery to remove a pancreatic tumour and a malignant melanoma. For many years she has since enjoyed an active and healthy life.
As a qualified coach and a master practitioner of NLP, Timeline Therapy™ and hypnosis, Rebecca is ideally suited to help her readers triumph over challenges, achieve wellness and enjoy life.

    Book Review

Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite

I am a fan of Rebecca Richmond. I have found her books to be comprehensive, well written, and most of all, useful. My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain is no exception. It starts with a brief description of her life then zooms in on the moment she is diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a debilitating chronic rheumatic condition. It was hard to imagine a condition that makes it impossible to enjoy such basic things as a good night’s sleep or a hug from a concerned loved one. I learned a lot about pain, health, hardship, attitude, and overcoming adversity. Somewhere along the way, I became a huge admirer. Her health issues didn’t stop with the fibromyalgia, indeed, that was just the beginning. She would deal with a growth in her left kidney, a growth in her pancreas, and a life threatening MRSA infection. Instead of succumbing to despair and self-pity, she sought and found solutions and wrote this book to help others who found themselves in similar situations.

My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain is told in a positive, upbeat tone. It is thorough and well organized. There are twelve chapters, starting with her personal story and ending with living well. I have often thought a general course on Life should be taught in schools to give young people guidance and direction as they try to figure out what to do with their lives and how they should strive to live well and contribute to society. Rebecca Richmond would be a perfect candidate to write the book for that course.

Faridah Nassozi

My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain by Rebecca Richmond is a self-help book about the factors that escalate chronic pain and how to manage these factors so as to minimize this problem which affects millions of people around the globe. Rebecca Richmond talks about the role of the mind in managing chronic pain, emphasizing the importance of tapping into our 'power of the mind' by exercising positive thoughts and positive beliefs and emotions. The book also elaborates on other factors that play an important role in pain management like perception and stress. Several techniques that can help minimize chronic pain are discussed in the book, including breathing exercises, mind distraction, eating a healthy balanced diet, exercising, and surrounding yourself with positive and supportive relationships.

My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain by Rebecca Richmond is a simple and practical book that looks at managing chronic pain from an emotional and behavioral perspective and suggests several techniques that can be used to minimize the pain. By helping you understand chronic pain, the book enables you to gain clear insight on the subject and then goes ahead to suggest practical techniques on how to manage the problem. Rebecca Richmond emphasizes that her advice is not meant to replace the advice of medical practitioner, but if the techniques in the book are followed one can considerably reduce pain and live a better life. Her writing style is friendly and easy to relate to, probably because she is writing about a subject that she is intimately familiar with, having suffered from chronic pain herself for several years.

Dr. Oliva Dsouza

Rebecca Richmond has struggled with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia/CFS. Ultimately she decides enough is enough. Through extensive research and training, she has developed her own techniques of dealing with fibromyalgia and chronic pain. Techniques like tapping the pain away and thought distraction have been tested and used by the author to successfully treat her own condition. The various methods and techniques are described in detail with examples to help you put into practice the concepts and ideas suggested by the author.

Pain is something all of us experience one way or the other as none of us are immune to it. My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain by Rebecca Richmond is a wonderful book that has the power to really help those of us dealing with constant, nagging pain that at times takes away so much from our lives. She teaches through her own example of fighting and emerging victorious from her illness. The various techniques that she has developed, practiced, and found useful have been beautifully explained in an easy to follow manner. Accessing the mind–body connection through positive visualization can help in becoming free from the burden of chronic pain. Her seven-minute meditation technique is something even the most hard pressed for time folks can follow on a daily basis. The importance of good diet, exercise, and sleep is discussed at length. The author makes a strong case for choosing happiness over negativity, anxiety, fear, guilt etc and everything she talks about makes a lot of sense in a very practical and doable way.

Bil Howard

Can we outsmart chronic pain? Rebecca Richmond says that we can in My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain. Having suffered the chronic and debilitating pain of Fibromyalgia, Rebecca developed her own techniques for managing and overcoming chronic pain. The mind is much more powerful than most of us truly understand. Through relaxation and visualization techniques, as well as other manipulations by the mind, we can keep our pain at bay and lead normal lives. Diet and exercise also play a significant role in helping us to have all the ammunition to fight back. Pain often leads to negative emotions as well, which only further the spread of chronic pain and strengthen its grip. Using our mind to overcome those negative emotions is a significant factor in managing and ridding ourselves of chronic pain.

The typical treatment for pain is pharmaceutical in nature and consequently, as the pain advances in strength, so does the strength of the drugs being used to treat it. My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain gives us a viable alternative to the side-effects and risk of addiction to pain medications. Rebecca Richmond, the author, suffered significantly and the story of her own suffering and recovery through her techniques lends a good deal of credibility to her methodology. Having tried a few of the techniques in her book, they actually do help. Practical, straight forward and encouraging, My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain is something that every chronic pain sufferer and therapist ought to consider before becoming a prisoner to medications with possibly dangerous side-effects.

Mamta Madhavan

In her book My Guide: Manage Chronic Pain, author Rebecca Richmond gives an insight about chronic pain and the techniques that can help one to overcome this. The idea to write this came after her experience of Fibromyalgia, from which she recovered using her own techniques. Pain is something that can cause depression and when you are in pain every aspect of your life is affected. This book works as an excellent guide for those suffering from chronic pain and also for therapists and trainers working around these people. The connection between the mind and body for perfect well-being is an interesting aspect covered in the book.

The book is informative. It gives a lot of tips on how to manage pain and stay positive. The author speaks about the different types of pain and how it can be perceived. The book also speaks about the emotional angle when it comes to handling pain. The author has given a few exercises that will help in handling physical and emotional pain in a better way. I found the list of ways to distract your mind from pain very useful. The author has also shared a lot of positive and healing affirmations that are helpful and can be tried out easily.

'Breathing, Visualization and Meditation' is an interesting chapter. The author has put down the Meditation techniques step by step, making it easy for those who want to try it out. I recommend this book to everyone because it helps you in channeling your energy in a positive manner which in turn helps your well-being.