Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
by Christiane Northrup
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Author: Christiane NorthrupEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-31
ISBN: 0553384104
Number of pages: 944
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
Book Review: Good read but be cautious
Summary: 3 Stars
I do like this book for a good advice on a diet and lifestyle changes. I was interested in a lot of ideas MD Northrop provides.
I do get disturbed with some things she write, like "Though a woman may have been terrified or abused as a child, this early abuse will not adversely affect her or her body UNLESS she starts to believe that she was entitled to a different life." Isn't it that simple? Don't believe and be healthy. The absence of awareness is the basis for health? What about body memories?
Yes, dear MD Northrup, when you describe you minor personal troublels, like having migraines because you were overachiever, your husband coming late for dinner, in your personal POV they are valid reasons to be personally upset.
But what about a woman who has been abused? In your opinion, she should forgive her abusers, don't mention abuse and live happily ever after?
Isn't it "don't talk about it" rule so common in abusive families?
Isn't it your personal importance that stop your compassion cold turkey when facing a woman with troubled history?
If you don't ever mention it, it would not be a problem, it never happenned, right? Who, MD Northrup, provided you with information
that "incest and other human right abuses have been the norm for the last 5 thousand years (p.72)."
Why in a doctor mind, incest and human right violations become the norm?
How is this supported?
It make me wonder about your personal history after reading plenty of statements like this.
Did you read Judith Herman? Or anthropologists research on this subject? Incestual relationships were and are prohibited in most cultures, because they are damaging to offspring of the species. Are you defending perpetrators here? Righteous fathers raping their own daughters? Are you creating a valid clientele base for yourself? So you can teach them to relax and never think about abuse, because, "you were not entitled to the different life." Because in your logic, these women were in no position to be treated decently.
I would agree, the less intuitive healers are mentioned, the better it is.
I do believe your advice is valid on most of the mentioned issues, I even recommended this book to most of my girlfriends after reading some paragraphs from the book. But your stance on abuse issues made be cautious of you.
Louise Hay explain forgiveness quite differently when you do. There is probably a reason for this, although your book is heavily infuenced by Louise Hay ideas.
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Summary of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
A groundbreaking book on women's physical and emotional well-being, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has become a classic, with more than 270,000 copies in print in the four years since its initial publication. Now it has been completely revised, offering the most up-to-date information available on women's health issues.Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.
Now Dr. Northrup brings us vital new information about the best techniques of Western medicine and the best alternative therapies, showing how to incorporate both into a complementary whole. She guides readers through the entire range of women's health problems, and offers strikingly new, positive perspectives on normal processes, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This edition includes:
? An all-new nutrition chapter emphasizing individual dietary needs and body chemistry
? New information on improving fertility after age 35?and how to cut the risk of C-section by 50 percent
? A completely updated program for menopause, including how to decide whether natural hormone replacement is right for you
? Holistic ways to prepare and heal faster if surgery is necessary
? Plus dozens of new natural treatments and a wealth of hard-to-find health care resources
Filled with dramatic case histories from the famed Women to Women health care center, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom is contemporary medicine at its best, combining new technologies with natural remedies and the miraculous healing powers within the body itself.
Northrup explores the mind/body connection from a personal, entirely female perspective. She presents the facts about the female body, its strengths and illnesses, in a clear, intelligent and caring way. She teaches us to look deep inside ourselves and heal the emotional scars that contribute to physical problems. Finally, Northrup shows ways to change the attitudes that created those scars.
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