Rita M. Hancock

…A biblical guide to overcoming pain, illness, & addictions (by-line from the from cover)

This is truly a biblical guide. “Your answers start with your submitting your mind to God.” (from the introduction, page xix) “Before you read the list, please pray”. (from chapter one, page 5) There are numerous exhortations to pray and involve God in your healing. In fact, more than half of the book is devoted to exploring the spiritual aspects of disease and healing.

Being a coach, I love asking questions, and asking questions of God. Because of this, I greatly loved the “Questions to Ask God in Prayer” points at the end of almost every chapter. They were wonderful and if you are someone who has a little trouble hearing God (or think you do) she has tips to help with that on page 9 of chapter one.

Being a medical doctor, the author includes a lot of medical advice but she is open to other modalities of healing, especially prayer and inner healing. Being trained in inner healing myself, I thought this was fantastic. It is rare to find a medical doctor so open to the spiritual.

To read the rest of my review go here: http://www.cherylcope.com/book-review-radical-well-being-by-rita-hancock-md… (mer)

Pros: I liked this book. Not sure if it was the way everything was presented but it was very easy to get through. If you are looking for a way to diet in a religious way, then this is the book for you. The author will teach you how she believes the Bible looks at food and how we should treat it. Towards the back there are some good recipes.

Cons: While I ended up enjoying this book in reality I had some issues with it.

1. This are many religious undertones in this book. I kind of figured there would be, knowing the publisher (Zondervan). However I know that publisher and know they deal with Christianity based books. For readers that don't know their smaller publishers, the religion throughout the book will be a bit jarring. Especially since this book is sold as a diet book with no mention to religion.
2. Even thought this book is very easy to read, there isn't anything really "new". We have all heard people tell us not to eat until we are really hungry. Throwing God into the equation was more like a new way to sell the same thing.… (mer)