Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom (179 page)

Dr. Northrup’s latest major book delivers a breakthrough message that will help perimenopausal and menopausal women understand that at menopause, life has just begun. This is the beginning of a very exciting and fulfilling time, full of pleasure beyond your wildest dreams!

The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook
(Hay House, 2009).

This companion volume to
The Secret Pleasures of Menopause
serves as a personal guide to the territory of life-giving pleasure, with space provided to write down and commit to your own personal pleasure plan.

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
During the Change
(Bantam, 2006).

In Dr. Northrup’s second book, she shows women how they can make menopause a time of personal empowerment and positive energy—emerging wiser, healthier, and stronger in both mind and body. The “change” is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be “fixed,” this book explains, but a mind-body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence. Dr. Northrup outlines how the choices a woman makes now—from the quality of her relationships to the quality of her diet—have the power to secure her health and well-being for the rest of her life.

The Wisdom of Menopause Journal
(Hay House, 2007).

The second half of your life offers an unparalleled opportunity to turn things around and create a firm foundation for the most fulfilling, healthiest, most joy-filled years of your life.
The Wisdom of Menopause Journal
—a companion to Dr. Christiane Northrup’s newly revised and best-selling book
The Wisdom of
Menopause
—helps you focus on the “me” in menopause. Designed to help you both navigate and document this important transitional time, the journal is packed with action-oriented, practical advice for your mind and body—from recommended supplements and medication options to how to explore the emotional issues behind your physical symptoms.

This journal gives you everything you need to create vibrant health in midlife on all levels—not just in your heart, bones, pelvic organs, breasts, and brain, but also in your sex life, your relationships, and even your beauty regimen! It enables you to record your current health and concerns, as well as the steps you want to take to achieve your goals in each area. You’ll also find powerful affirmations, inspiring quotes, and plenty of blank pages for journaling, so you can create a record of your thoughts and feelings during this important time.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers,
Daughters, and Health
(Bantam, 2005).

Dr. Northrup explains how the mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for our state of health and well-being for our entire lives. Because our mothers are our first and most powerful female role models, our most deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves as women come from them. And our behavior in relationships— with food, with our children, with our mates, and with ourselves—is a reflection of those beliefs. In this book, Dr. Northrup shows how once we understand our mother-daughter bonds, we can rebuild our own health, whatever our age, and create a lasting positive legacy for the next generation.

ONLINE RESOURCES
Women’s Health Wisdom
Monthly E-Letter

Dr. Northrup’s free monthly electronic publication covers a wide variety of topics guaranteed to enhance your health on all levels. With her characteristic compassion, she presents the most up-to-date information on topics ranging from sexuality and menopause to the link between financial and physical health. Available at
www.drnorthrup.com
.

Women’s Wisdom Circle

Dr. Northrup’s online interactive community is the primary way she keeps in touch with readers and fans. Designed to both inform and uplift members, the Women’s Wisdom Circle offers monthly news updates about the latest medical research; hundreds of archived health-related articles; the “Ask Dr. Northrup” question-and-answer column; movie and book reviews; blog posts; guest columns; free live online seminars; inspirational audio downloads, video clips, and podcasts; discounts at Dr. Northrup’s online bookstore and at
www.hayhouse.com
; discounts to all Dr. Northrup’s events with Hay House; and VIP member status at events and book signings. Available at
www.drnorthrup.com
.

AUDIO/VIDEO PROGRAMS

Dr. Northrup’s CD and DVD programs are all available through
www.drnorthrup.com
or through Hay House (800-654-5126;
www.hayhouse.com
).

Inside-Out Wellness.
Four-CD set by Christiane Northrup, M.D., and Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.

Dr. Northrup and Dr. Dyer team up for this inspirational and informative program that discusses how to transform the old habits, traditional beliefs, and everyday thoughts that keep you from becoming all that you can be. Topics include how to rewire your thought patterns and let go of your past so you can cultivate pleasure instead of stress, reawaken your passions, follow your bliss, and create the life you want.

Menopause and Beyond.
DVD.

With cutting-edge medical information and guidance, Dr. Northrup invites midlife women to embrace their inner wisdom and transform the second half of their lives in this DVD program, based on her bestselling book,
The Wisdom of
Menopause
. The program focuses on heart health, hormone therapy, diet, and sexuality. Dr. Northrup also presents a five-step program that guarantees weight loss.

The Power of Joy.
CD.

Life is meant to be joyous! We are pleasure-seeking creatures by nature. Joy makes you younger, smarter, more intuitive, and healthier, with better hormonal balance and immune-system functioning. Joy even positively affects your metabolism. On this CD program, Dr. Northrup prescribes a ten-step process for overcoming habitual patterns of negative thinking, guilt, and pain in order to evoke the power of joy in your life every day.

The Secret Pleasures of Menopause.
Three-CD set.

Dr. Northrup narrates her latest groundbreaking book,
The Secret Pleasures of
Menopause,
a candid guide for stepping forward and learning to enjoy the best years of your life! Rather than holding to the long-held misconception that menopause signals “the beginning of the end,” Dr. Northrup candidly shares with listeners how they can experience life after fifty as the most pleasurable time ever!

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom.
Two-CD set.

Taped at a live lecture, Dr. Northrup explores the unity of mind and body and the crucial role of the human spirit in creating health in this CD set. She discusses how thoughts, beliefs, and emotions can have organ-specific consequences and which ones can promote health and well-being; why a woman’s own intuitive understanding of her body is as important as her doctor’s assessment; why prescribing medicine or recommending surgery for a health concern is only one of many possible options, and much more.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical and Emotional Health.

Five-CD set.

Dr. Northrup narrates an abridged version of
Mother-Daughter Wisdom,
discussing the bonds passed from generation to generation that shape our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom,
DVD.

In the course of this journey to self-realization, Dr. Northrup covers a rich range of topics that are designed to bring mothers and daughters to greater consciousness, including the five facets of feminine power, how to end the mother-daughter “chain of pain,” the power of forgiveness, and how to deal with a difficult mother or daughter.

The Empowering Women Gift Collection.
Four-CD set.

This CD set includes inspiration and knowledge for women of all ages from Dr. Northrup, Louise L. Hay, Caroline Myss, and Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Intuitive Listening—How Intuition Talks Through Your Body.
Six-CD audio program by Christiane Northrup, M.D., and Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.

Drs. Northrup and Schulz help you tune in to your inner guidance by understanding the language your body talks. The program covers immune system health, endocrine system and hormonal health, digestive health, the structural system, and the brain and mind.

Igniting Intuition: Unearthing Body Genius—Six Ways to Create Health, Happiness,
and Almost Everything Else in Your Life.
Six-CD set by Christiane Northrup, M.D., and Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Northrup and Dr. Schulz teach you powerful, energizing, and life-changing tools for personal growth—how to use your body’s own unique intuitive language to help you heal body, mind, and soul. With over thirty years of combined medical practice between them, Drs. Northrup and Schulz describe the seven emotional centers that are associated with the major organ systems in the body, and show how both good health and illness communicate information you can use to change your life. With wit and wisdom, they teach you how to recognize the patterns associated with disease so that you can change the conditions of the cells themselves by changing your thoughts, relationships, and activities.

Igniting Intuition.
Two-CD audio program by Christiane Northrup, M.D., and Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.

Drs. Schulz and Northrup explore the basics of how intuition is wired in the body and brain.

MISCELLANEOUS

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom Healing Cards:
A Fifty-Card Deck and Guidebook.

The Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom Healing Cards were created by Chris-tiane Northrup, M.D., to help women reach clarity, fulfillment, and success in each of five major life areas: fertility and creativity, partnership, nurturance and self-care, self-expression, and the development of an enlightened heart and mind. The deck comes with a seventy-two-page instruction booklet that offers a variety of practical ways to access intuitive, grounded information on a number of issues.

Available from Hay House (800-654-5126 or 760-431-7695;
www.hayhouse.com
) or
www.drnorthrup.com
.

Women’s Wisdom Perpetual Flip Calendar.

Dr. Northrup shares her warm and witty wisdom on creating vibrant health within your mind and body in this perpetual flip calendar that you can use year after year. The calendar includes inspirational quotes, empowering affirmations, enlightening exercises, and even bits of scientific research. Available from Hay House (800-654-5126 or 760-431-7695;
www.hayhouse.com
),
www.drnorthrup.com
, or downloadable from iTunes.

General Resources

Holistic Health Care Organizations

American Holistic Medical Association
(216-292-6644;
www.holisticmedicine.org
) The AHMA (founded in 1978) is an organization of licensed medical doctors (M.D.’s), doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.’s), and medical students studying for those degrees. Physicians from every specialty are represented. The AHMA website contains both an online physician referral directory as well as a guide to choosing a holistic practitioner.

Institute for Functional Medicine
(800-228-0622;
www.functionalmedicine.org
) Functional medicine is an approach to medicine that treats the whole person instead of a set of symptoms and focuses on prevention instead of disease. Practitioners come from a variety of specialties and disciplines. The IFM website gives information about functional medicine and offers a directory of functional medicine practitioners.

Citizens for Health
(202-462-8803;
www.citizens.org
) Citizens for Health was formed by a group of ordinary people who believe that good health is a right, not a benefit that should be determined by government or based on economic or social status. This idea grew into a movement and is now a national and international network of thousands of individuals, young and old, at every level of society, who want to exercise their rights to make informed choices regarding their health care.

Homeopathy

National Center for Homeopathy
(877-624-0613 or 703-548-7790;
www.homeopathic.org
)

The NCH website has a wealth of information and resources, including an interactive directory to help you find a homeopath in your area.

Formulary Pharmacies

International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists
(800-927-4227 or 281-933-8400;
www.iacprx.org
) IACP (formerly known as Professionals and Patients for Customized Care, or P2C2) is a nonprofit organization made up of more than 1,300 compounding pharmacists nationwide. The IACP website has a locator feature that can help you find a compounding pharmacy in your area.

Diagnostic Laboratories

Genova Diagnostics
(800-522-4762 or 828-253-0621;
www.genovadiagnostics.com
)

Genova Diagnostics offers hormone testing, as well as a wide range of other functional testing for bowel health, cardiovascular health, and more. Collection kits, articles, abstracts, and other publications regarding test methodology, clinical applications, and patient aids are available.

My Med Lab
(888-696-3352;
www.mymedlab.com
) This direct-to-consumer lab service allows you to order any of various medical tests without having to first schedule an appointment with your doctor just to get the test ordered. Here’s how it works: After ordering your test online or over the phone, an in-house physician in your state reviews and approves the order, and the company uploads a digital lab order to your My Med Lab account and notifies you via e-mail. You log on to your account, print the order, and search the listing of almost two thousand patient service centers to see which is most convenient. You take the order to the service center of your choice to have your samples taken—you don’t need a prior appointment. My Med Lab typically posts the results to your account within 24 to 48 hours, notifying you by e-mail when they are ready.