Worked with this book for years - Rated 
Having worked in a Hospice for 10 years as a therapist and owned this book for many years, I would like to share with you that this book has been a wonderful source of information and inspiration. I have recommended it to many of my patients / clients/ friends who have an interest in the emotional content of illness. I find it a much gentler read than Louise Hay as Debbie merely asks you to "consider" various aspects of how what you think might affect your health and well being. "Consider" appoints no blame or guilt which is the last thing someone who is suffering a life limiting illness needs to take on board. A lovely book when you feel ready to open your mind to how your thoughts might affect your body.
Putting symptoms into words has never been easier! - Rated
Your body is like an airplane's black box that records your every experience and response.
With this book, Deb Shapiro, will assist you with taking charge of your health and healing by listening and paying attention to what your body is trying to tell you from head to toe, inside and out. The premise is that all thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, aches, pains and illnesses, are hidden messages available for you to decipher.
Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underline Illness, sets out practical advice in an easy to read format. I read the whole book from beginning to end the first time round, however, using it regularly, I often return to this book by dipping into just the section which matches my current ailment (be it a cold, sore throat or aching muscles, for example). Putting symptoms into words has never been easier! I also love the idea that healing comes through appreciation and gratitude rather than through resistance.
In addition, there is a CD with includes an Introduction, Talking With Yourself, and The Body Mind Appreciation meditations, which encourage positive thinking and affirmations to teach self love, no matter what you have (or may think you have) wrong with your body in terms of both your physical and psychological being. Used with the BodyMind Review (Pg 77) and BodyMind Writing (Pg 78) the whole package ensures a deep awareness and gratitude for every part of your body, even those parts that may be hurting you. This book is already a best seller here in England, along side many of Deb Shapiro's other books, which promote healing yourself and others. She is a popular inspirational author, and I have to say I am already a fan of her healing methods. Comes highly recommended with Sassy's Seal of Approval!
Sassy Brit
Alternative-Read.com
June 2007
excellent mind/body/spirit reference - Rated 
If you are open to the notion that illness often has its roots in the mind/body/spirit connection, then you'll love this book. If you are used to treating the symptoms of your illnesses from a more traditional allopathic viewpoint, then you'll probably find it challenging or take the view expressed by the previous reader. Personally, I find it comprehensive and well presented and will use it to support my nutritional training, but I'm not about to try and convince a cynic!
A Very Useful Book - Rated
I have had this book for a number of years now and have found it very useful. At times when I was ill and the doctors couldn't find out what my problem was I would read the relevant information and most of the time it correlated with the feelings I had inside, often feelings I did not want to admit to. I have also used it many times for friends, family and clients. I do believe and have experienced that all illness is caused by some underlying emotional state and the author explains these various states very well. As with everything in life you do not have to take the information within the book as gospel but it will help you to understand more about the underlying causes of physical illness. This book is easy to read and will be useful for anyone who is looking for answers in respect to physical problems or illnesses as well as for people in or entering into the field of complementary healing.
This book should carry a public health warning - Rated 
I bought this because it was recommended by a friend, but now I can't quite believe that I have actually spent money on it. I fully accept that some illness may be caused/ worsened by stress/ holding in emotions/ having too high expectations of oneself, etc.; also that relaxation techniques and complementary therapies can be useful - so that section of the book looks OK, if not exactly ground-breaking. However, I found the diagnostic section full of patronising, offensive, over-simplified nonsense. The author makes the most amazing sweeping statements, yet it all sounds so plausible that you almost believe it - like when you read horoscopes in the paper, and everything could apply to everyone. So, ohmigod, my recent dental abscess is apparently caused by 'grief or guilt, connected to the mother/food/love issue', my daughter's hay fever by fear of sexuality (that's to do with the pollen)/ fear of the passage of time (that's to do with the seasons changing)/ wanting attention (?). My recently diagnosed M.E. hardly surprisingly 'provides a hidden place where we cannot be reached, a shelter from the storm. There is always an excuse not to participate......This is a very loud cry for attention'. Well, thanks, that's really helpful and uplifting. Thank goodness I haven't bruised my leg though - that means 'you are knocking into something, or you're going in the wrong direction and need to re-route". Although I couldn't help laughing at this book at first, I think it's actually seriously alarming to think that some vulnerable people might swallow what it says as if it's some kind of revelation. To be fair, I should say that I haven't read the book from cover to cover, but there again, I've got better things to do.
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