Wisdom of Menopause

Author: Christiane Northrup
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Publish Date: 2003-09-02
Features: This book is a path to deeply understand the health and happiness of 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, every woman needs to maintain physical health and create a fulfilling life. Menopause is an extremely frightening word for many women, as it seems to imply aging, hysteria, and deteriorating family relationships. Is this really the case? The highly popular American medical advisor, Dr. Northrup, challenges traditional views through personal experiences and numerous compelling cases, explaining the changes that occur in women during menopause, proving that menopause does not merely mean the loss of fertility or becoming an unpleasant "haggard woman."
Dr. Northrup combines advanced medical technology with the best natural healing methods, guiding women to choose the most suitable comprehensive solutions from the spiritual to the physical, providing women with a sense of security for their future: how menopause initiates women's shift from focusing on others to caring for themselves; how to listen to the awakening signals in life, those through menopausal symptoms, grief, depression, and anger; the meaning of sexual dysfunction and other outward changes; how hormonal changes manifest as 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; and how to prevent long-term health issues, such as heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
Women can maintain 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—a wisdom from within that tells them it is time to change their lives.