The Wisdom of Menopause

Author: Northrup (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is a way to gain an in-depth understanding of healthy and happy women. Women have an intuitive connection to the spiritual world, an ability to harmonize their own wisdom, and a more robust physical system. Dr. Northrup reduces the spiritual to the medicinal, promoting understanding and trust between the two. That is to say, every woman needs to maintain physical health and create a fulfilling life. Menopause is a completely negative concept for many women, and it has even become a sarcastic term, entering everyday aggressive vocabulary. Indeed, menopause brings physical and mental changes to a woman, such as losing patience, tension, impulsivity, being overly critical, deteriorating family relationships. Menopause has also become a universal excuse for those who cannot adapt to these changes, but how much of this "understanding" actually contains contempt and misunderstanding of women! This loving, inspiring, and empowering book will guide women through the fluctuations of menopause, helping them to live the rest of their lives with ease, grace, and high quality. Menopause is an extremely frightening word for many women because it seems to imply aging, hysteria, and deteriorating family relationships. Is that really the case? The highly popular American medical advisor, Dr. Northrup, through personal experiences and numerous compelling cases, explains the changes that women undergo during menopause, challenges traditional views, and proves that menopause does not merely mean the loss of fertility or becoming an unpleasant "hag."
Dr. Northrup combines advanced medical technology with the best natural healing methods to guide women in choosing the most suitable comprehensive solutions from the spiritual to the physical, providing women with a sense of security for their future: how menopause initiates the woman's role shift from caring about others to caring for herself; how to listen to the awakening signals in life, those through menopausal symptoms, grief, depression, and anger; the meaning of sexual dysfunction and other physical changes; how hormonal changes manifest through physical symptoms and how to individually choose hormone replacement therapy; the magical effects of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture; dietary adjustments and middle-aged beauty; how to prevent long-term health issues such as heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease. Women can maintain their health by learning to observe their own physical condition. Menopause is not merely a change brought by the passage of time. At this stage, women will hear messages from within their bodies—the wisdom of the body, telling women that it is time to change their lives.