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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

Author: Christiane Northrup

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.

Publishers Weekly

This guide goes far beyond standard self-help books [and] is as accessible as it is empowering.

Library Journal

While this book offers a great deal of sound and sympathetic advice about healthy living for women, it is accompanied by an excess of feminist rhetoric and New Age mumbo jumbo. (Do fibroids really "result when we are flowing life energy into dead ends, such as jobs or relationships we have outgrown''?) The reader might feel more comfortable skipping those parts of this otherwise excellent work. Northrup, the founder of a women's health clinic in Maine, takes up women's standard health problems and offers spiritual and philosophical counsel along with suggestions on dietary change, confronting one's feelings about disease, visualization practices, and other holistic remedies. Although much of this same advice can be found elsewhere, Northrup's approach is more casual. For example, she feels that the main reason for exercise should be that you enjoy it.
-- Natalie Kupferberg, Montana State University Library, Bozeman
-- Mark Guyer, Stark City District Library, Canton, Ohio

Library Journal

While this book offers a great deal of sound and sympathetic advice about healthy living for women, it is accompanied by an excess of feminist rhetoric and New Age mumbo jumbo. (Do fibroids really "result when we are flowing life energy into dead ends, such as jobs or relationships we have outgrown''?) The reader might feel more comfortable skipping those parts of this otherwise excellent work. Northrup, the founder of a women's health clinic in Maine, takes up women's standard health problems and offers spiritual and philosophical counsel along with suggestions on dietary change, confronting one's feelings about disease, visualization practices, and other holistic remedies. Although much of this same advice can be found elsewhere, Northrup's approach is more casual. For example, she feels that the main reason for exercise should be that you enjoy it.
-- Natalie Kupferberg, Montana State University Library, Bozeman

Booknews

New edition of a guide to women's physical and emotional well-being. Supports the viewpoint that when women change the basic conditions of their lives, they heal faster and more completely. Contains updated information on a range of subjects organized into three major sections -- from external control to inner guidance, anatomy, and how to integrate the best techniques of Western medicine with alternative therapies.

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Through her clinical and personal experiences, Dr. Christiane Northrup came to see that negative circumstances in our lives often manifest themselves in our bodies as illness and pain. In Women's Bodies, she addresses each area of women's health and explains the potential problems that can arise, the possible treatments and the ways that each can be affected by a women's spiritual and emotional status. Examples from the lives of her patients illustrate how changes in attitude and life situations can affect a woman's health. She also gives advice on choosing a doctor, deciding on a treatment, nourishing ourselves and healing emotional scars. Christiane serves as an example of a doctor who has taken her conventional medical training and expanded it to address all aspects of health.

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Carolyn Myss
A masterpiece for every woman.
-- Author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction to the Revised Edition: Speaking Our Truth
	Introduction to the First Edition: Physician, Heal Thyself
1	The Patriarchal Myth and the Addictive System	3
2	Feminine Intelligence and a New Mode of Healing	25
3	Inner Guidance	50
4	The Female Energy System	67
5	The Menstrual Cycle	101
6	The Uterus	164
7	The Ovaries	210
8	Reclaiming the Erotic	241
9	Vulva, Vagina, Cervix, and Lower Urinary Tract	259
10	Breasts	327
11	Our Fertility	381
12	Pregnancy and Birthing	445
13	Motherhood: Bonding with Your Baby	495
14	Menopause	515
15	Steps for Healing	579
16	Getting the Most Out of Your Medical Care	642
17	Nourishing Ourselves with Food	674
18	The Power of Movement	740
19	Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World	757
App	Choices in Hormone Replacement	777
	Resources	787
	Notes	831
	Index	891

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Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn, and Fantasy Obsession in the Internet Age

Author: Robert Weiss

With personal stories from addicts and their significant others, this updated essential resource offers realistic healing strategies for anyone experiencing the devastating impact of Internet pornography and sex addiction on intimacy, relationships, career, health, and self-respect.