About Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way
Finally, a non-threatening book about breast cancer
Can
women do more than submit to a yearly examination to insure the health
of their breasts? According to Susun Weed, the highly-regarded author
of Breast
Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way, there
are many simple ways for women to increase the health of their breasts.
Unlike most other books on the subject of breast health
and breast cancer, which are clinical and frightening, Weed speaks
from a place of warmth, sensitivity and compassion, giving comfort,
reassurance and extremely practical advice.
She gives the positive message that every cell of
a woman's breasts can be nurtured, rejuvenated and healed by the energies
of touch, pleasure, love, whole food, and green, healing plants.
Ms. Weed suggests a two-fold approach to breast health:
increase the foods and lifestyle choices that are known to prevent
cancer, and decrease or eliminate those things that are known to increase
cancer risk.
Breast
Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way explains
all the risk factors for breast cancer, from excess hormones (especially
estrogen) to tobacco smoke, radiation to poor diet. She sets out simple,
pleasant, affordable ways to create your own anti-cancer lifestyle,
including the best foods and herbs to add to your diet.
But what if a lump is found or, worse yet, if the
diagnosis is cancer? Ms. Weed's book gives thorough information that
helps women move through the tangle of possible options.
She offers advice that deals not only with the physical
aspects of treating lumps and cancer, but also the emotional, relational,
and spiritual factors involved. Weed argues against taking action
immediately, offering strong support for her opinion that women must
give themselves time to make wise decisions that are not based on
fear.
After a woman has chosen her treatment options, Susun
continues to offer her support through the use of complementary medicines
- herbal and home remedies that are proven to moderate the side effects
of surgery, radiation, tamoxifen, and chemotherapy, without interfering
with their effectiveness.
For instance, she cites statistics showing that women
who attend regular support groups double their survival time after
diagnosis, that women who exercise regularly similarly increase their
longevity, and that standard Heroic cures, including fasting, enemas,
and high-dose supplements, actually increase morbidity and should
be avoided.
Ms. Weed does not avoid the difficult questions surrounding
breast cancer, but discusses them without engendering fear and guilt.
She writes, "So many of our modern healers, alternative and orthodox
alike, fear death. When a diagnosis of cancer is made, death becomes
the enemy. Fear of death - rather than love of life - then becomes
the basis from which treatments are chosen."
Ultimately, Susun urges women to find ways to love
their life without clinging, and to learn to honor their death. Doing
so can open many doors, including those to a longer and richer life.
Metastic breast cancer, she acknowledges, is curable only by "miracles"...
which definitely do happen!
Christiane Northrup, author of the best selling Women's
Bodies, Women's Wisdom, writes in the
introduction that she learned the importance of breast health fourteen
years ago when she developed a large breast abscess while nursing
her first child. Due to her demanding schedule of work and devotion
to the healing of others, she neglected her own self-care, resulting
in the complete destruction of the structure of her breast duct.
From that experience she became aware that we cannot
nurture others fully or well unless we also nurture ourselves. "Our
breasts know this. And they will not be silenced in their attempts
to bring this to our attention," she states.
Susun agrees. She writes that women have a wise healer
within that has been silenced, ignored, and ridiculed for the last
several millennia. Breast
Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way gives
explicit instructions for reconnecting with this inner wisdom, as
well as detailed information about the herbal remedies mentioned in
the book.
An Herbal Pharmacy section contains instructions on
making specific preparations (such as infusions, tinctures, oils,
and vinegars) for those who want to do it themselves. All of Weed's
recipes and suggestions are extremely easy to find, buy, make, or
do, and do not require the fanatical extremes that are often recommended
in other cancer treatment books. Her advice and wisdom can easily
fit into the life of every woman who is concerned about good health.
Supporting women and their body wisdom unconditionally,
Weed makes the process of maintaining or regaining breast health into
a magical journey of transformation and offers women the opportunity
to become healthy/whole/holy.
Breast
Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way guides
the reader through her fear, to a place of action where she can honor
her own integrity, and choose the best course for her life. Learn
more at: www.breasthealthbook.com
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a radio interview, contact us at: susunweed@hvc.rr.com
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Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has
garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures,
teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional
medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic
knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated
and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative.
Susun is one of America's best-known authorities
on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four
best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known
physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around
the world. Learn more at www.susunweed.com
