Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I originally gave this book a raving review. I had not yet finished the book, but it had my mystery illness described to the letter, and I was in email communication with the author, who told me she was "sure [she could] help,[me]!" Once again, hungry for feeling real and desperate to get my life back after years of chronic illness, I thought I finally found "IT"! I continued to read the book and signed up for her very expensive on-line and Facebook course. I learned a lot. I learned that knowing the symptoms of a mystery or any other type of illness, disorder, or disease does not mean knowing how to cure symptoms of that disease. I've read many books by authors who became healed from the symptoms I have had. All of them used different healing modalities. As far as I know for sure, the authors are the only ones living a symptom free life. I learned the difference between a business person and a true healer--healers are rare. I learned to look for what the seller is offering for sale, realizing that I am vulnerable when I am desperate to be well again, and it's easy for me to assume I'm being offered what I'm desperate for. I was desperate for physical healing. I learned a lot about energy medicine and spiritual and emotional healing long BEFORE I read this book. I worked with a published author and talented and skilled medical intuitive who brought me far. At the time I read this book, I was able to work again, to use my hard earned college/Master's degree, but it was tough. All I could do was work and rest up to work again. I was still in a lot of pain. My physical energy was low. This book had some slightly different takes on "tapping" and chanting and affirmations that I was open to. There were some sayings about being myself that I grabbed on to, because chronic illness robs a person of feeling like their old self. I left a top review on this book and eagerly went on the author's payment plan for her online course that follows the protocol in this book. I found the healing processes in the modules to be very tedious and time consuming. When I used my own variations learned elsewhere, I felt better emotionally for awhile. This did not bring physical relief. This was not the help I thought I was paying for. I was still having physical pain and fatigue that stole quality of life from me. I tried meditations suggested in the book, and by the author via the private Facebook group. The participants in the group shared a lot about emotional healing, but I didn't think anyone in the group was getting better physically, everyone in the group seemed to believe that physical healing would follow. I already had tools for emotional healing, I shared this from the onset. If I had experienced anything, any lasting help at all, or if the course had held anything not in the book, I would feel the book has something to offer. After 4 months into the course and some not nice and not helpful communication between the author and myself, I asked if I could drop out of the group and forego that last $100 payment, which was really the charge for being on her "payment plan". The answer was a resounding no and the suggestion I drop out of the Facebook group anyway. The book is the jump off point to sell the course. I've taken many courses to get well, none this expensive. The author is a great salesperson and shrewd businesswoman and I was guillable and desperate. There is a 30 day money back guarantee on a program that doesn't say it can deliver in 30 days. I've worked with better known healers who were kind about giving me discounts, one on one time. I was shocked when I was told I still had to pay the $100 while being asked to leave the group. A year + later I noticed I am the #1 review for this book on Amazon. I do not feel the same way about the book as I did when I was 1/2 way through it and Ms. A. B. Scher was saying she could help me. This book is fine for someone's first attempt at healing emotionally when they realize their illness is chronic. The "course" is overpriced, and the "course" seems to be the purpose of the book. There are healers and life coaches available who do more and charge less. This author had stem cell work done in India then a brief relapse when she used these "tools" to "heal herself". I'm not an expert on what did or did not heal her, but I don't see her as expert, either. She is not a healer, and not so much a life coach or author as she is a business woman. She wrote a book to sell a product that brings her almost passive income. I see her book in an entirely different light after my experience and I feel remiss if I do not change my review. I count on reviews to make my decisions. I want to hear a cross section of truths and experiences. This is my truth, my experience regarding this book.