Ally Loprete

Power Up Your Inner Healing Potential! About 15 years ago I woke up with a crick in my neck. What I expected to be a small annoyance that would diminish in a few days lasted an incapacitating and excruciating long 4 years. Like a cancer, the pain spread to the other side of my neck and into both shoulders and became so unbearable that often I couldn't work or drive. Desperate for reprieve, I spent an ungodly amount of money on pain institutes, chiropractors, massage therapists and acupuncturists. Nothing worked. After 4 years, I began to forget what it was like to live in a pain-free body. The pain had BECOME me. I never would have believed it. Eventually the cure showed up in the most unexpected way. It came in the form of a book that my husband found in the library called "Mind Over Back Pain" written by Dr. Sarno, which suggested that the root of my pain was being caused --- not by an injury or a disease--- but from my own emotional baggage. (WHAT?!) Further suggestion was that the pain was my body's