Category: health

Author: Dorothea Hover-Kramer
Publisher: Sounds True
Genre: Health
ISBN: 978-1-60407-452-9
Pages: 384
Price: $16.95

Healing Touch Program
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Western society relies on traditional medicine for almost all its needs, but there are alternative healing modalities that can complement what our doctors do for us. Some healing can be done by using touch. Healing Touch describes one method of hands on healing.

Using real-life examples, author Dorothea Hover-Kramer shows us how we can use Healing Touch(HT) in our own lives. Beginning with the history of HT, she provides evidence of the effectiveness and safety of this method. Then she shows us hand positions and several methods of performing HT. Finally, she explains how a practitioner is certified and how to go about setting up a practice.

While HT is similar in some ways to other hands on healing techniques, the training is more intensive and the outcomes have been measured, to some extent. If you’re looking for a hands on healing method you can practice at home, this book provides all the information you need. I highly recommend this helpful guide to Healing Touch.

Reviewer: Alice Berger

Author: Jean Fain, LICSW, MSW
Publisher: Sounds True
Genre: Health / Diet
ISBN: 978-1-60407-075-0
Pages: 240
Price: $16.95

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Have you had enough of fad diets? Do you want to get off the weight loss and regain merry-go-round that has held you captive for years? How would it feel to finally make peace with food? If you’re ready to try something different, The Self-Compassion Diet was written for you.

Rather than strict discipline, author Jean Fain suggests using loving-kindness. You don’t have to follow any specific diet to use this program. Instead, Fain offers advice on using hypnosis, mindfulness, social support, and self-compassion to facilitate weight loss. Each of these is explained, and exercises and quizzes are provided to put them into action.

Fighting food with rigid diets is a setup for failure. But by using these suggested techniques, you may find that you look at food in a different way. And by being kinder and gentler with yourself, you probably won’t have as many food binges, since you’re not beating yourself up over each tiny slip.

The New Year is just around the corner. This year, don’t reach for the latest fad diet. Instead, pick up The Self-Compassion Diet and learn how to be good to yourself and your body. It may be the best New Year’s Resolution you’ll ever make.

Reviewer: Alice Berger

Author: Maureen Minnehan Jones
Publisher: O Books
Genre: Body, Mind and Spirit
ISBN: 978-1-84694-399-7
Pages: 290
Price: $24.95

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Our bodies send us messages every day, although most of us aren’t tuned into what they’re telling us. Our thoughts, words and actions are powerful catalysts in guiding our health. In Wisdom to Wellness, Maureen Minnehan Jones explains how we can use them to our advantage.

We all have what Jones calls a Modus Operandi (MO) that we live by, which can predictably be traced to the ailment we suffer from. By using the MO Technique, we can change how we look at and speak about something, changing the outcome of our illness. This technique is explained in step-by-step detail, to reprogram the mind and body to accept a new, healthier thought process.  Once Jones has demonstrated the MO Technique, she explains how we may have developed certain conditions, and what we might want to do to change. Case studies are provided, as well as affirmations to help us heal.

For those who prefer guided meditation presented in audio format, an accompanying CD can also be purchased.  These guided meditations lead the listener through the grounding process, using the infinity sign, cleansing and balancing the chakras, releasing negative emotions, and instilling DNA (Dynamic Natural Authentic) power and self-love.

Although Jones and others healed themselves from their ailments with no medical intervention, she doesn’t imply that this is the only treatment you need. Instead, she encourages the use of the MO Technique as a supplement to good medical care. This common-sense and holistic approach ensures that your body, mind and spirit are all treated equally.  I highly recommend Wisdom to Wellness for all who want to improve their health and well-being.

Reviewer: Alice Berger

Author: Leigh Fortson
Publisher: Sounds True
Genre: Health
ISBN: 978-1-60407-431-4
Pages: 300
Price: $17.95

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Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be one of the scariest moments in a person’s life. The choices seem limited, and big decisions must be made before having a chance to really think things through. Conventional treatments or alternative? And what really works?

In Embrace Release Heal, author Leigh Fortson describes her own journey with cancer. After her third cancer diagnosis, she is given a hopeless prognosis, and is determined to save herself while also educating others through this book. Cancer survivors are all around, and Fortson finds them and shares their stories with us.

Although she chose the path of traditional medicine for her first two rounds, by the third round, Fortson no longer wanted to subject her body to the harsh treatments of chemotherapy and radiation. Instead, she chose to honor her body’s own wisdom and try to heal herself in a more natural way.

Ultimately each person needs to determine what course of action to take, but it’s easier to make a decision when all the options are before us. While some traditional options are explored in this book, its focus is on those treatments we may not know about – treatment programs that have an astonishing success rate, but doctors are unable to recommend them.

Cancer doesn’t have to be the end – it can also be a beginning. When we realize what we’ve been doing that contributed to the cancer, we can start to live life from a new perspective. And even if we aren’t able to cure the cancer, we can life our lives to the fullest while we’re able. I highly recommend Embrace Release Heal for anyone suffering with a cancer diagnosis.

Reviewer: Alice Berger