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 enlarge | Author: Christiane Northrup
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 3551
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 944
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 0553384104
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.1
EAN: 9780553384109
ASIN: 0553384104
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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 Good Information May 27, 2008
nettie hartsock (Austin, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some good information from Dr. Northrup but some of it has been said before too many times. I would recommend Saudra Pelletier's "Awake at the Wheel" to inspire you for work/life balance as well. Saddle Up Your Own White Horse: 5 Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
 Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing May 14, 2008
Ann Hykin (Grand Rapids, Mi)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didn't find much new in this book but found the information
correct. It is good for answers to your health questions.
 A Wonderful Addition to the Well Woman Library April 22, 2008
Rebecca E. Henkins (Central Florida)
I bought this book after hearing the author speak on TV. I was a bit skeptical that a medical doctor would really present this broad subject with a personal and more than medical view. I was wrong - this book has been a long read, taking bits and pieces as I ahve time and thinking on them. I wish I ahd this book before I had a hysterectomy. In a time when people are finally beginning to ask questions adn actually expect their doctors to give an answer to them that is real, serious and personal - this book proved to be a light of hope for our medical profession. I am personally more in line with the wholistic person view and using nature as much as possible, as well as the mind body spirit connection - so it appears is this author - a real doctor! I wish she were closer.
I recommend this easy to understand book for those who want to know more about their own bodies and their own mind, body connection. She presents both the medical side - simplified to easy to understand terms - along with the more emotional and what some might call more New Age view of womens bodies, but none the less a real aspect that modern medicine and many people are tuaght to ignore or deny. Stop it! It isn't a curse!
I even gave a copy to my sister for her birthday as well as a few friends.
I recommend it and her other books as well - even if you don't feel they offer you anything - they will open your mind to a different more open way of thinking :)
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom April 5, 2008
Karen V. Reider (Sedona, Arizona)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book should be mandatory for all girls and women to read. The information is so valuable. I have recommended it to all of my friends and the ones who purchased it are very grateful. If you're a woman and you have questions about the many changes we go through, get this book!
Good read but be cautious March 27, 2008
alice87 (wa)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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