Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing by Christiane Northrup, Mona Lisa Schulz MD PhD
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Book Reviews of Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing
Book Review: Buy the 6 CD set instead retitled Intuitive Listening
Summary: 5 Stars
I have all of Dr. Northrup's DVDs, videotapes, CDs, books and cassettes. I love how she reminds us of the total mind body connection, rather than trying to get us to follow separate health changes for just our body. Her PBS specials and writings are humorous and informative. And her approach to healing ourselves is always balanced. She never asks you to cut out a food group entirely, she asks you to choose a more healthy approach. I like that she says treat white flour, white sugar items as a condiment and have them on a rare occasion.
She also says treat yourself and every meal you have as though you are dancing with someone you love. Now if we all did that, our meals would be a lot less stressful and so much more enjoyable.
If you want this on CD and much cheaper, please buy the 6 CD set Intuitive Listening. It is the same package.
Book Review: The Wisdom of the Body
Summary: 5 Stars
The body never lies but often people have trouble trusting what they feel. One of the greatest gifts in life is trusting yourself, practising discernment, and realizing the wisdom of the body. If you feel a certain way about someone it is true although sometimes its a bad emotional pattern coming up. Decipher the distinction between not being emotionally sober versus true innate neutral and strong gut instincts. Dr. Northrup and Dr. Schultz are fabulous guides in this area to help navigate the commmon sense approach that distinguishes fact from fiction in the six sense. When you take the emotional hijacks out of the way ... you can tune into the wisdom of the body with accuracy, clarity, and confidence.Book Review: Wonderful Information
Summary: 5 Stars
Very valuable information for everyone and easy to listen to. These women have so much real information to share that is difficult to find elsewhere, but it is like listening to your smarter girlfriends having a conversation. I liked the combination of styles and the fact that the doctors shared some of their lives, including their own ups and downs. I can relate to them as opposed to the "experts" that are pushing a certain type diet or program (why do those experts always write another book a few years later with a new, different program?)Great stuff.
Book Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
Intuitively, I always knew that all of me was connected and this certainly confirms that. Thank you!Book Review: Interesting, but.......
Summary: 3 Stars
There was so much in this tape series that is interesting that I hesitate to critise the work but here goes.... Dr. Schulz and Dr. Northrup are totally fun, because they are good friends and know each other very well. This is a plus and a minus, they have good information to impart, but sometimes the "conversational tone" of the tape series takes away from the content. I wrote down the helpful info but they don't reiterate or restate necessary herbal medication info to treat various disorders. Actually this is a critism of the tape medium,itself; a book is better to look up information. Especially in a 6 tape series, where was the information? I listened to the series over a two day period. I found the information area's hard to recall. I felt the formate should have been tighter for info less chit chat and yet a part of me, ok, the gossipy part, loved that aspect of the tape.
I get Dr. Northrup's newsletter so I am familiar with her philosopys and positions on medical treatments. They try to look at people in a wholistic way. We are the sum of our parts, seen and unseen (genetic), plus they add the spiritual element of soul too. Making a really complete "primordial soup" of a human being. They focus on women, but have several men that they analyze their medical problems and look at their whole life to find the reason for their problem. Then they attempt to give advice, and the least intrusive medical solution, to solve or ease the medical problem.
I appreciate the attitude they both have toward medicine. Which is look at the whole person and his/her cosmology and DON'T try to over medicate or over operate to fix the problem. The less is more philosophy.
In conclusion, I loved the chattiness and personal touch of the two doctors, although it took away from the important information somewhat. I would have preferred a book so I could look up the specific herbs and treatments for different things. Another thing they could have done was put a short little series of "Depression can be treated with St. Johns Wort ---dose." Anxiety with Kava Kava and.... dosage such or something like that. Easy to find and at the end, just dealing with what they dealt with in the tape series.