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| Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing | 
 enlarge | Author: Christiane Northrup
Publisher: Bantam
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Customer Ratings:  183 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 944
Shipping Weight (pounds): 2
Dimensions (inch): 9.1 x 6.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 0553384104
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.1
EAN: 9780553384109
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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| Customer Comments:
 Good read but be cautious March 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this comment useful.
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.
 Excellent book- very informative March 25, 2008
This book is an eye opener. I love her holistic approach to healing women's bodies. Filled with real life stories, Dr. Northrup shares how so often stress, the way we think or things that have happened to us in our past affect our health. Fascinating- a must read for any woman.
Fantastic and informative book March 17, 2008
This book was unbelievable informative and interesting. I absolutely loved learning about the female body. The part about illness being caused by your emotional health was very beneficial also.
Oprah was right February 28, 2008
I first heard of Dr. Northrup on Oprah when she talked about "women's issues". I was so impressed with her philosophy of how emotions and life are an important consideration in a woman's health. I immediately went to the local library and took out her "The Wisdom of Menopause" and requested this book (I guess others saw the show as I was not next in line).
I have just started to read this book. It's not the type of book one sits down and reads.... I've read bits and pieces ..... and as I read, I think and then read some more. I feel this is the kind of book I will refer to and that is why I purchased it rather than depend on the library.
Inspiring Woman February 16, 2008
This woman is amazing I was introduced to her through my midwifery training with The Farm in Tennessee. She is so inspiring and enlightened as a Dr. she gives me hope for allopathic medicines future. Any woman wishing to heal past relationships with women in their lives or foster greatness in the life of their daughter or unborn child would benefit immensly from Christiane's words.
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