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Summary: The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional ...
Review: I found this to be a very practical and informative book. The author seems more interested in promoting health and well-being than any particular product (although some are mentioned, a minor annoyance) or fad regimen. She recognizes that no two women are alike emotionally or physically and discusses a wide range of experiences and suggestions.
I loaned the book to a friend who has read a variety books on the subject. She (a nurse with a background in homeopathy) said it was the most useful book on the subject that she had seen.
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Summary: Hogwash!
Review: This book has so many stupid ideas, that I can not mention them all.
For example.... she suggests that because you might have lived in an unhappy marriage (or situation) you swallowed your words and that is why you have a thyroid problem!!! Ridiculous.
She recommends chucking your marriage if you get in menopause and your goals change...
I would NOT recommend this book. There were a few parts that seemed to be realistic to me, but it was outweighed by the 'new age' junk.
Skip this one!
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Summary: Buy This Book in Your Thirties -- Sail Through Your Forties!
Review: The most important book for women and health since "Our Bodies, Ourselves"! I learned that hormonal, emotional and spiritual shifts related to menopause begin as much as a decade before menstration ends. Though the book strives to include everyone, I think mothers will benefit the most from her advice. It was enlightening to learn how the changing needs of my family change me -- and that hormonal shifts can make these transitions even more painful. With one child heading off to college and the youngest just entering first grade I have been feeling very off-balance and overwrought. After reading this book I made some changes in my personal life and my diet that improved my outlook and made us all happier. Northrup empowered me with information -- I now feel capable of honoring this new phase in my life with grace and dignity.
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Summary: The Wisdom of Menopause
Review: It's wonderful to find a book containing so much information on a subject that up until now has been something no one really talks about. This book will help take the mystery out of menopause and show that it can be a time of growth and enlightment instead of embarrassment. I've been frustrated for years that so many consider "the change of life" to be a dredded illness and so often made it the brunt of jokes.I found the book to be a bit redundunt especially with regards to the authors divorce and personal life decisions. I also felt that the subject of menopausal women with young children was skipped over. The book instead seemed more focused "empty nest" women experiencing life and emotional changes during their menopausal years. Overall I genuinely liked the book and found it to be a valuable educational tool.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Right off the bat, she portrays menopause as a time to really see how horrible your marriage has been along and get out of it! "I had to grow or die . . ." Then she expounds upon the fact that she's into astrology, psychics, mysticism and tarot cards. A little too bizarre for me.
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Summary: Good medical advice, but can the New Age stuff
Review: The medical advice on diet, exercise, natural hormones, alternative medicine, food supplements is very helpful. Less helpful is Dr. Northrup's reference to chakras, medical intuitives, tarot cards as well as her personal beliefs and life experiences. It makes her sound like some over-the-top new age guru. Stick to the medicine doc, if I want spiritual advice it won't be from you.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Gives both main-stream and beyond AMA information and advice.
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Summary: Simply a bible ...
Review: ... that we must have nowadays, when General Practitioners are either misinformed, not updated at all, or not interested in giving the facts. It's a vital book if we want to make sure that our health will not drastically suffer because of ignorance; it's also very informative on products and other resources available in the market today.
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Summary: eat soy, take vitamins, real hormones, not synthetic
Review: Good grief! Show me how to fight osteoperosis, sleeplessness, night sweats, brittle bones, and anxiety and don't read this book? I think not. This is brilliant. My mother bought it for me a year ago, and here it is, on the top of the heap. Wonderful preventative ideas gracefully told.
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Summary: Does she want me to morph into someone I'm not?
Review: As Boomers, many of my friends and I are in varying stages of peri or actual menopause. I've read Dr. Northrup's book and thought she had a great attitude toward the whole process. However, she doesn't seem to realize that most women will not accept their menopause as an opportunity to tell everyone to kiss off and go their own way as she seems to have done. She says she took a fake hormone pill due to fibroids and it "kick started" her brain and told her she needed to become someone else, someone who would use menopause as an opportunity to be selfish and aggressive. Well, honey, if you aren't that way to begin with, stopping the monthlies ain't the magic that's gonna make you that way! If you've never watched your diet, exercised, told your husband exactly what you thought, and/or struck out on your own and did exactly as you pleased, you're not going to suddenly do it now. I can't imagine anything more stressful at that time of a woman's life than doing what Dr. Northrup asks us to do and becoming a completely different person!!! No thanks, I'll take MY doctor's advice over her's.
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