The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing [Paperback]

Beth Baughman DuPree (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 30, 2006

The Healing Consciousness is the journey of one woman who is a breast cancer surgeon. She learned over years of practice and surgery that there is a significant difference between curing, and healing. Sometimes she can help a patient to total cure of cancer, and sometimes she can help the patient to heal from fear and into peace as well. Beth has come to believe that Western medicine is but a small part of the service she provides.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Healing Consciousness is a joy. Every doctor Beth touches, whether in person or through her book, will be enriched. Every patient will have more understanding and more hope. --Brian L Weiss, MD Many Lives, Many Masters

The Healing Consciousness is enthusiastically recommended reading for those with an interest in alternative medicine, the healing arts, holistic health, personal spiritual development, emotional self-improvement, and adaptive strategies to dealing with stress, illness, and the inevitable hardships that all of us will encounter from time to time. No personal improvement reading list or community library self-help reference collections should fail to include this book. --Small Press Book Watch JULY 2006

The Healing Consciousness resonated deeply with me and reflected my own healing journey back to me. Dr DuPree is that wondrous combination -- a true healier with excellent Western training and surgical skills. Her book illuminates the path all must take take to become happy and whole --Christiane Northrup, MD Mother Daughter Wisdom --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Beth Baughman DuPree, MD is a breast surgeon in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She has a personal and an energetic connection to her patients. This is often as important as the surgery and chemotherapy she performs. Beth is the youngest of seven, married, with two sons. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Hahnemann Medical School and medical/surgical residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wovenword Press; 1 edition (May 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976667843
• ISBN-13: 978-0976667841
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,504,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing, August 14, 2006

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Helen Gross (Yardley, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing (Paperback)

This beautifully honest book provides the reader with a sense of caring, warmth, self-worth, support, and empowerment. One very special and talented doctor, Dr. Beth Dupree, takes the reader on her introspective professional, and very personal, journey. This book is important to those who must address the challenges of cancer on a daily basis, those who support and/or live with someone with cancer, medical community members who need to grow in their profession and who need to understand what their every word or action means to a patient and their family member, and finally, for those who "care."

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring collection of Dr. DuPree's illustrative examples and commentaries drawn from her own life, July 10, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing (Paperback)

As a board certified surgeon who specializes in diseases of the breast, Dr. Beth DuPree has found through her many years of professional practice and personal experience that blending holistic therapies with state-of-the-art, leading-edge, medical technologies leads to better outcomes than any sole reliance on one to the exclusion of the other. This open-minded attitude and impeccable professionalism shows throughout the pages of The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey To Healing, an inspired and inspiring collection of Dr. DuPree's illustrative examples and commentaries drawn from her own life as well as the lives of her patients and friends. A dedicated physician who embraces both the wisdom of Eastern and Western approaches to medicine, as well as "mind/body" reciprocal influences, Dr. DuPree shares "life lessons learned" from both her professional observations and personal experiences. Informed and informative, The Healing Consciousness is comprised of twenty-five "reader friendly" chapters (each one dedicated to the underlying message and universal theme of hope, change, and an aspiration to acquire a better balance in our lives regardless of our circumstances or condition) and features a summary of six basic principles, plus a listed bibliography. Dr. DuPree emphasizes a necessary connection between ourselves and what is required to precipitate, participate, and propagate a spiritual enlightenment that will not only enhance our own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, but the well-being of those with whom we associate whether they be family, friends, associates, or strangers. An articulate presentation in a particularly engaging narrative style that is especially accessible to non-specialist general readers, The Healing Consciousness is enthusiastically recommended reading for those with an interest in alternative medicine, the healing arts, holistic health, personal spiritual development, emotional self-improvement, and adaptive strategies to dealing with stress, illness, and the inevitable hardships that all of us will encounter from time to time. No personal improvement reading list or community library self-help reference collections should fail to include Dr. Beth DuPree's The Healing Consciousness.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Book! A must read!, August 30, 2006

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Carmen Richardson Rutlen, Author, "Dancing Na... (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing (Paperback)

This is a fascinating and beautiful view from a doctor's perspective of the synchronistic benefit of combining the Western and Eastern worlds of medicine and healing. Wow! It makes such perfect sense. Dr. DuPree has not only embraced this marriage of East and West, but had the courage to write a book about it, perhaps to the chagrin of others in her field. But wait, lest you think this is a "preachy" book, it's not. There's no soap box for miles around. This is a gentle read that is honest and without pretense written by a female doctor who comes off equally gentle, honest and without pretense.

This book would be extremely uplifting for people who are ill, as well as for those who have friends or family who are ill, offering a healthy and hopeful spin on dis-ease. Surprisingly, I also found it to be a spiritually uplifting read in a broader sense and not just limited to issues of physical health. It is a blessing, a joy and an inspiration, as is Dr. DuPree. She's a wife and mother; is setting up a state-of-the-art breast care center; remodeling a farm house; does speaking engagements all over the country and...wrote a great book. Dr. DuPree makes me want to do more ... and be more. She is an inspiration.