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Body Talk : No-Nonsense, Common-Sense, Sixth-Sense Solutions to Create Health and Healing

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There was so much in this tape series that is interesting that I hesitate to critise the work but here goes.... Dr. Schulz and Dr. Northrup are totally fun, because they are good friends and know each other very well. This is a plus and a minus, they have good information to impart, but sometimes the "conversational tone" of the tape series takes away from the content.

I wrote down the helpful info but they don't reiterate or restate necessary herbal medication info to treat various disorders. Actually this is a critism of the tape medium,itself; a book is better to look up information. Especially in a 6 tape series, where was the information? I listened to the series over a two day period. I found the information area's hard to recall. I felt the formate should have been tighter for info less chit chat and yet a part of me, ok, the gossipy part, loved that aspect of the tape.

I get Dr. Northrup's newsletter so I am familiar with her philosopys and positions on medical treatments. They try to look at people in a wholistic way. We are the sum of our parts, seen and unseen (genetic), plus they add the spiritual element of soul too. Making a really complete "primordial soup" of a human being. They focus on women, but have several men that they analyze their medical problems and look at their whole life to find the reason for their problem. Then they attempt to give advice, and the least intrusive medical solution, to solve or ease the medical problem.

I appreciate the attitude they both have toward medicine. Which is look at the whole person and his/her cosmology and DON'T try to over medicate or over operate to fix the problem. The less is more philosophy.

In conclusion, I loved the chattiness and personal touch of the two doctors, although it took away from the important information somewhat. I would have preferred a book so I could look up the specific herbs and treatments for different things. Another thing they could have done was put a short little series of "Depression can be treated with St. Johns Wort ---dose." Anxiety with Kava Kava and.... dosage such or something like that. Easy to find and at the end, just dealing with what they dealt with in the tape series.

Very valuable information for everyone and easy to listen to. These women have so much real information to share that is difficult to find elsewhere, but it is like listening to your smarter girlfriends having a conversation. I liked the combination of styles and the fact that the doctors shared some of their lives, including their own ups and downs. I can relate to them as opposed to the "experts" that are pushing a certain type diet or program (why do those experts always write another book a few years later with a new, different program?)
Great stuff.

I have all of Dr. Northrup's DVDs, videotapes, CDs, books and cassettes. I love how she reminds us of the total mind body connection, rather than trying to get us to follow separate health changes for just our body. Her PBS specials and writings are humorous and informative. And her approach to healing ourselves is always balanced. She never asks you to cut out a food group entirely, she asks you to choose a more healthy approach. I like that she says treat white flour, white sugar items as a condiment and have them on a rare occasion.

She also says treat yourself and every meal you have as though you are dancing with someone you love. Now if we all did that, our meals would be a lot less stressful and so much more enjoyable.

If you want this on CD and much cheaper, please buy the 6 CD set Intuitive Listening. It is the same package.

The body never lies but often people have trouble trusting what they feel. One of the greatest gifts in life is trusting yourself, practising discernment, and realizing the wisdom of the body. If you feel a certain way about someone it is true although sometimes its a bad emotional pattern coming up. Decipher the distinction between not being emotionally sober versus true innate neutral and strong gut instincts. Dr. Northrup and Dr. Schultz are fabulous guides in this area to help navigate the commmon sense approach that distinguishes fact from fiction in the six sense. When you take the emotional hijacks out of the way ... you can tune into the wisdom of the body with accuracy, clarity, and confidence.

I ordered this along with other Mona Lisa Schulz products through Amazon. I was enthusiastic about the prospect, mostly because of Christianne Northrup's friendship and endorsement of Mona Lisa. Regrettably, I ordered the products before having a personal phone consult with Mona Lisa. If the phone consult had happened first, I would not have ordered anything. I very much regret the product orders and the consult.

I am a very chronically patient and have been very sick and bedridden for a number of years. My experience was that Mona Lisa was one of the most incompassionate practitioners I personally have encountered. I was prepared for directness. However, I was not prepared for extreme callous rudeness in the process. I am still stunned and devastated ....and out $450 for the consult. When you first call to try to find out how much is the consult price they won't tell you. That sould be the first clue. You must leave your phone number where she insists on calling you back personally where she rapidfires a prepared sales list of "all of the comprehensive services" you will receive. It felt a bit "car salesman" strategy which should have been my next intuitive sign that something didn't feel right about the process. My intuition was telling me NO...but I am so sick I proceeded against my own instincts. Something I now regret.

Prior to the cost inquiry for the consult I had already ordered some of her products... including her oracle cards, Awakening Intuition book, and the multi-cassette series Body Talk with Christianne Northrup MD. The phone consult process was so disappointing that I can not in good faith recommend any of. Perhaps, with the exception of The Body Talk cassettes which includes Christianne Northrup MD (thank goodness as she gives heart and balance to the product). The other Schulz products; e.g., oracle cards and the book have sat unused because of the negative emotional experience with the phone consult. I am disgusted with it so will donate them to Goodwill unused.

Other reviewer ratings for the Awakening Intuition book criticized that she talks too much about glorifying herself and her skills rather than hoped for educating/awakening intuition in the reader.
As I said I could not bring myself to read the book, but can say that my personal phone consult was consistent with those comments. She definitely likes to talk about herself....a lot....which runs the clock out on your $450 hr. Then at the end of the consult, in what seemed like her own mid-sentence, she abruptly changes course and says "thank you for calling...goodbye" and hangs up abruptly without waiting for a reply making the client feel hung up on. It was very strange.

I have dealt with other far more professional medical intuitives so maybe I had other expectations based on more positive experiences. Maybe she was just having a really bad day on the day of my consult, but at $450 for one hour, I was sadly disappointed that the client (me) didn't receive a more compassionately honorable service. I am on disability and unable to work (which she knew) .....so $450 was a huge amount of money for me, but I was putting that much faith and trust in her. Faith & Trust that I now know was misplaced. But, my instincts warned me, which I ignored. Just verifies....listen to your inner instinct when it talks to you.

My main concern and reason for posting this is my concern for anyone else like me who is seriously chronically ill and may be contemplating a personal phone consult. Each has to decide for themselves on these things. The consequences are ours to live with. For me, I experienced a lot of unnecessary emotional pain from the process of a phone consult with her. I pray that others are different. And, I pray she reads this and is helped to understand how damaging her process can be to someone chronically ill.

Intuitively, I always knew that all of me was connected and this certainly confirms that. Thank you!