All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing [Paperback]

Diane Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1990

“By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women’s emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women’s lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition.”—from the Introduction

Editorial Reviews

Review

All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide To Natural Healing is a survey of the role of women in alternative medicine with its emphasis on personal one-on-one approaches to the healing process too long dominated by traditional western medical practices with its emphasis on impersonal technologies and assembly line medicine. Women approach healing from a holistic, life-style preventive emphasis. All Women Are Healers also surveys the use of stones and crystals, reiki, chinese healing and acupressure, reflexology, pendulums, kinesiology, vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathy, flower remedies, and gem elixirs. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

DIANE STEIN is a popular and acclaimed healer and the best-selling author of Essential Reiki and 25 other books in the fields of metaphysical healing, women's spirituality, and alternative health. She lives and teaches in Florida.

THE AUTHOR SCOOP

Read any good books lately?
My favorite reading is science fiction, there are new good books coming out every day.  Look at Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce, Ann Bishop, and so many more talented women fiction writers.

If you had to boil your book's message down to one sentence, what would it be?
Serve the Light, trust the Light, make a difference in the world with who you are and what you do.

What are you working on now?
I prefer to keep future books a secret until they are finished.  No one will know until the manuscript is mailed in.

Do you eat your vegetables?
I have been a vegetarian since 1983.  I do eat my vegetables.

If you had a superpower, what would it be?
Wonder Woman, of course.

How long did it take you to write this book?
I have been working with herbs for over 35 years, so you could say it took that long to write it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Press (April 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089594409X
• ISBN-13: 978-0895944092
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DIANE STEIN is the author of Essential Reiki, Essential Energy Balancing, and more than 30 books in the fields of metaphysics, women's spirituality, and alternative healing.

She teaches Essential Reiki and Essential Energy Balancing workshop weekends, mostly for women, in Florida (contact [e-mail] if you are interested in attending). See her website www.dianestein.net for books, handmade gemstone Goddess jewelry, antler and crystal ritual wands, workshops for women and more.

Coming up: books on ebook, and some formerly out of print books returning on ebook and in print. New in December, 2011--Prosperity and the Light from ARE's 4th Dimension Press, also coming Healing Flowers A-Z from The Lotus Press. Watch for the return of Brede's Garden Essences and the Lords of Karma video on DVD--coming soon, see www.dianestein.net.

Diane does private phone sessions for healing, karmic release, psychic reading, etc. Cost is $125 for 1/2+ hour. Contact [e-mail].

Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Multiply (http://dianestein.multiply.com) and Twitter (@ednaelk).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing is not the sole providence of the white and wealthy, September 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing (Paperback)

In the New Age world which caters to the upper classes, Ms. Stein's work stands out as one which does not. Rather, she validates the individual's exploration and practice of the healing arts. In her chapter entitled, "The Ancient Art of Reiki and Laying on of Hands", Diane Stein writes, "The information is not exclusive to the Christian God, to the Reiki Master, or to the woman who has $150-10,000-it is there for the taking by anyone who wants to learn it." There for the taking. That was what I was seeking when I came across this book. Certification, licensure, and regulation may feed pockets, but healing falls under no human's jurisdiction and Ms. Stein makes her point, and encourages us to heal.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, well-rounded resource, November 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing (Paperback)

I've have had and used this book for the past 10 years (since publication). It is the first book that I reach for when looking up a problem or a remedy. This book is a necessary resource in any woman's healing library, no matter how extensive your library may be.

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Well-researched, but a bit hostile for my liking, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing (Paperback)

I did enjoy this book, it was well-researched and a great source of information. But I had a problem with the hostile attitudes toward men. The author seems to blame men for the majority of problems in society. I prefer to think of men as brothers and friends, not enemies.