Why I Wrote Capturing Hope

BJ Rae's book CAPTURING HOPE

They call it “the suicide disease” for a reason.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome doesn’t just hurt—it steals your life one excruciating moment at a time. When a room-temperature teapot sent my nervous system into complete meltdown in October 2019, I thought my story was over.

I was wrong.

From Counting Pills to Crossing Oceans

Capturing Hope: From Pain’s Deepest Prison to Freedom’s Dawn is my raw, unfiltered journey from the brink of suicide to discovering treatments American doctors said didn’t exist.

This isn’t another “stay positive” chronic pain book. This is the truth about:

  • Surviving CRPS when every touch feels like fire
  • Medical gaslighting that nearly destroyed me
  • Traveling to Italy for treatments the FDA dismissed
  • Sexual assault that triggered devastating setbacks
  • Financial devastation from medical debt
  • The food connection nobody warned me about—how processed foods inflamed my condition and organic eating became medicine

What You’ll Discover

For CRPS warriors and chronic pain sufferers: Real strategies that reduced my symptoms, including the Italian treatments that changed everything and the dietary changes that were as powerful as medication.

For trauma survivors: How childhood abuse, domestic violence, and assault carved pathways for pain—and how I finally broke those patterns. (If you’ve read my first book Cloud People about surviving an abusive childhood, Capturing Hope continues that story into adulthood, showing how early trauma echoes through our bodies decades later.)

For caregivers: What your loved one desperately needs you to understand about invisible illness.

For anyone fighting to survive: Permission to transform your wounds into wisdom and proof that hope exists even in your darkest moments.

The Moment That Changed Everything

After my Italian treatments gave me my life back, one processed cheese tortilla sent my pain skyrocketing. That’s when my doctors revealed what changed everything: American processed foods were literally inflaming my CRPS.

The book shares exactly how I switched to organic, anti-inflammatory eating and why that became as crucial as any medical treatment.

This Book Will Show You How To:

✓ Navigate CRPS and chronic pain when doctors give up
✓ Find treatments beyond what American medicine offers
✓ Manage crushing medical debt creatively
✓ Channel fear and anxiety into forward motion
✓ Survive trauma that lives in your nervous system
✓ Build hope when everything feels hopeless

Your Journey Starts Here

If you’re struggling with chronic pain, autoimmune disease, CRPS, PTSD, medical trauma, or wondering if you have the strength to face another day—this book is your roadmap from pain’s prison to freedom’s dawn.

Because hope isn’t about feeling better tomorrow. It’s about choosing to believe tomorrow is worth seeing.

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BONUS: The book includes a comprehensive resource guide with support organizations, treatment options, financial assistance programs, and veteran resources.

Yes, you can capture your own hope!

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