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Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Wise Woman Herbal Series)

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Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way by Susun Weed is a significant contribution to the state of women's health. She has woven statistics, research results, myths and facts into a fabric that is warm and inviting. Her style of injecting motherly and grandmotherly wisdom while sharing facts is very effective. She certainly helped me to accept that breast health is important and more than correct brassiere fitting. I received the book from a friend a few days after I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I curled up with the book and read for hours, absorbing the spiritual soothing of the letters from the "grandmothers". I was challenged to rethink what I had already experienced and where I should step next. For instance had I read Weed's book prior to the diagnostic tests, I would not have submitted to a mammogram, clearly less than six months after a previous one. I would have requested an ultrasound, since the fact of the lump had already been established. The book encouraged me to slow down and think about optons and my direction. It made me know that I was not foolish in thinking that I could choose a way that would enhance my natural healing capacities rather than compromise them. It has been invaluable as a resource during my journey.The cancer-free lifestyle outline was formidable and empowering. The levels and types of breast cancer that Weed explained equipped me to understand pathology reports and information given in consultations with surgeons and oncologists. I realized gaps in nutritional information, since I was not aware of the many cancer-fighting foods and enzymes. The book encouraged me to reassess my eating habits and to become more serious about my diet. Weed also very ably handles the existing options for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Although she is very clearly a proponent of holistic approaches to healing, she makes the women who would choose the conventional approaches know that their decisions are personal and to be respected. There is no intense politicizing of the issues such that women will feel ashamed or less than courageous if they select the usually recommended course of treatment. She is an advocate for wise behavior on the part of women. Weed has achieved an important goal by writing a book that is womanish, informative, challenging and timely. I agree with her concern that in the next century people will look back and consider our conventional way of treating breast cancer to be barbaric.

Whether you or perhaps a friend or family member have had breast cancer, or you are a woman, period, this is a book you should have in your personal library. Author Susun Weed brings you every step of the way in breast health, which modern medicines and practitioners tend to either ignore or not explore.

Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way is the first step to wellness and staying healthy. Author Susun Weed has certainly done her homework, with research and a natural lifestyle. She begins with a small personal story and the awakening from it, which leads to the disclosure of her anti-cancer lifestyle, a one page insight of balance and harmony, then ends this section with a how-to on using this book, about herbs and their dangers.

She begins her chapters with the statistics of breast cancer and how they make her feel, how it makes us all feel. She leaves nothing out with her research with complete scientific data and what is accepted in the medical society and what may be likely but not proven. She explores every angle in a not so easy subject.

Moving on to "Can Foods Prevent Cancer?" Again she has done her homework and provided a wealth of information on anti cancer foods, she explores foods, herbs, oils, phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals. In "Taking Our Breasts into Our Own Hands, Breast Self Massage", Ms. Weed goes far beyond just the how-to that we so often get from our Doctors and clinics, thoroughly discussing the many aspects of self-breast exam, including an extensive list and uses of different oils.

As you make your way to the following chapters, you begin to expect much more from her. This is exactly what she gives you! With "Building Powerful Immunity, Journey to the Wise Healer Within", " Mammograms -Who Needs Them?" and the last of the first Section "There's a Lump in my Breast!", she brings you completely full circle as she delves into each of these subjects.

Section two has some of the scariest of topics, but the author gently eases your anxiety as if she is right beside you holding your hand, letting you know you are not alone by exploring every aspect of having Breast Cancer. From "What is Breast Cancer? The Diagnosis", dealing with your emotional state, to "Choosing Surgery Questions to Ask," the topics just continue to flow to give you a complete in-depth exploration, with recipes, suggestions and what to expect no matter what you decide. She gives you extensive resource lists on just about every topic. This book is not a get healed fast pill, but instead an exploratory journey, on one of the most feared and extended taboo subjects in our time. Through it all Susun reminds you; this is Your Life, take control!

Hail to Susun Weed who has brought the light in an age of darkness with this book! Every Clinic, Gynecologist and Oncologist worth their weight should read, then recommend "Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way," to all their patients. I give this wonderful archive of information my highest of recommendations!

M.L. Benton,
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Every woman should read this book, most definitely so if you have cancer. The positive and very well researched suggestions for a healthy lifestyle by a very experienced, knowledgeable and compassionate herbalist will improve the quality of anyone's life and health. Many are easy to incorporate, even pleasurable. There is something here for everyone, and if you do have cancer, there is no better place you could turn. The recommended reading list is excellent. The ideas presented will strengthen you, soothe you, help you withstand the effects of chemotherapy and strengthen your immune system to help your own body fight the cancer. No dangerous remedies here. All very safe and gentle (with appropriate warnings and toxicities mentioned in the few cases where appropriate). Very effective ideas. Any of us can benefit by strengthening our immune systems and by avoiding toxic substances.

I found Susan Weed after suffering for over 6 painful months with a very painful breast cyst and took painkillers that didn't help me at all and after trying the hot Ginger Compresses for less than a week I was able to get off of the useless painkillers and get back to a normal life again! I am so thankful to this book for making me feel better. I liked the book so much I became a student of Susan's.

A woman's breast health is her life and I thank you personally Susan for making me feel so much better. Truely a gift for sharing with others!

Finally a book that gives women practical direction on how to facilitate breast health and how to deal with suspicious lumps. The medical community offers us mammograms and biopsies, but the gaps between these procedures are often filled with agonizing uncertainty for most women. Thank you Ms. Weed, for giving us the information we have so desperately needed to be able channel our energies into strengthening our bodies and empowering our spirits.

Breast Cancer, Breast Health presents a wealth of carefully researched information of use to women of all walks of life whether or not they have diagnosed cancer, and even if they don't usually use herbals. Weed's suggestions and enlightenment range from prevention via simple anti-stress techniques, joy, dietary and other lifestyle changes on up to information about traditional medical treatments. The style is warm, open, and at the same time knowledgeable. The book is arranged so you can read it from cover to cover, use it as a reference book, or simply browse through it. The one page anti-cancer lifestyle in the front is a good summary and demonstrates the author's broadly inclusive wholistic approach.

As a breast patient dealing with stage 4 metastic cancer, I have been reading (at least 50 books) and researching on-line, both conventional and alternative medicine, for 3 and a half years. Susun's book is the most comprehensive, straight forward book with the most practical, helpful information I have found anywhere. It is my medical bible.
I am buying copies to share.

I am a breast cancer survivor and wish I had found this book a couple of years ago. It is very empowering to read and and encourages women to take control of their own health and wellness. Once you get in the medical system, it's easy to feel victimized and over your head. Medical people try to scare you into treatments and drugs that may not be in your best interest. Ladies you need to educate yourself and learn how to care for and nourish your own body. This will go a long way in keeping us all out of harm's way within the medical establishment. Susun Weed stresses the importance of nutrition and self-care as a means to staying well, as well as not being afraid of your own body. (Many of us are, I think). This is a great resource for any woman, especially those with breast cancer - or who think they might get it -- and that could be virtually everyone! Recommend very highly.

I really enjoy Susun Weed's books and this was no exception. I find her style very down to earth and full of practical advice. However, I would not recommend this book to people who believe everything their allopathic doctor tells them.

This was a required book for school and I found it so helpful and inspiring, even though I had never thought about breast cancer before now. It was not at all frightening and there were plenty of practical everyday tips and exercises for maintaining breast health. I highly recommend this book for women of all ages.