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The Feminine Mystic

Christiane Northrup, M.D, is a visionary pioneer and the world’s leading authority in the field of women’s health and wellness. Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of medicine that acknowledges the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit.Screen Shot 2014-07-21 at 15.11.24

Following a 25-year career in both academic medicine and private practice, Dr. Northrup, a board-certified OB/GYN, teaches women how to thrive at every stage of life.

Dr. Northrup is the author of two groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, the newly revised The Wisdom of Menopause and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. She has sold over 3 million books in 20 languages. Dr. Northrup has also hosted seven highly successful public-television specials.

Even more at odds with Western medicine was Northrup’s regular consultation with “medical intuitives” to help her patients see the link between, say, an alcoholic parent and PMS. “Knowing just someone’s age and name, they could come up with what was wrong,” she claims. “They tell you the emotions or the energy behind the illness.”

To Northrup, there is no such thing as randomness. “Yes, there is DNA, but it’s tremendously influenced by its environment,” she says. “I don’t believe in the idea of a rogue cell that can just go out of control. It’s a disempowering notion.”

Of course, the flip side of the capability to cure oneself is a culpability for one’s illnesses. Northrup takes issue with the criticism that her theories blame the victim. “We don’t cause our illnesses in a conscious way,” she insists. “You need to be responsible to your illnesses, not for them.

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