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It’s hard to believe that Christiane’s Northrup’s whole woman approach on how to have a positive and healthy menopause in The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change, is already a classic five years after it was published. If you followed the hormonal and neurological studies linking women’s biology with our cyclical and intuitive approach to life detailed in Circle of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle, by Harvard’s Joan Borsyenko, or Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen’s work on how menopause initiates the unfolding of the wise woman archetypes, chronicled in Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes of Women Over 50 , you’ll appreciate how she synthesizes those perspectives into her physician’s experience to create a grounded, personal, well-researched and practical book about who women become, what our drivers are, and the decisions we face in midlife.
Northrup is unique in pulling each of these aspects of women’s lives together into a whole woman approach to health care. With longevity, after lives juggling professional and family responsibilities, she sees menopause as initiating a new beginning, and aging as an opportunity for personal growth during the most sexually passionate, creatively inspired, and productive phase of our lives.
As hormonal changes affect the brain to direct women inwards, away from caregiving and towards reflection, she describes how changing beliefs and emotional responses may require lifestyle adjustments. No longer willing to bear the costs of our previous choices, we may make some surprising new ones, while old habits of self-sacrifice may spur resentments and anger that require self-forgiveness.
As a physician, she focuses on the central role that maintaining our health, balance and vitality plays in fulfilling our potential, and her holistic approach to self-care offers a vision of what’s possible. Written on the heels of ground-breaking research from both NIH Women’s Health Initiative and natural hormone therapies, she discusses synthetic hormones vs. bio-identical hormone replacement, alternative medicine, and the role of foods, herbs and supplements to support hormonal balance. She both supports women in making informed choices as well as empowering us to trust our inner guidance as we move forward into this next chapter of life.
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Nice review of one of my fave books. I actually didn’t know about the other two books you mention, but will definitely check them out. I just finished reading a really wonderful interview between Dr. N and Marcelle Pick, her former colleague at Women to Women, the clinic they founded together in Yarmouth, Maine. Love the chatty, between friends tone. An intimate interview with Dr. Christiane Northrup