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Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life

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This book is a must have for anyone who believes that life's challenges can be met head on--and for those who don't believe it, but want to. I have given this book to friends with cancer, infertility, miscarriage problems and have been told that it was one of the most helpful tools they received. Alice Domar combines traditional medicine and pharmacology with a mind-body approach. The book is full of helpful suggestions on how to cope-- a must have not just for those dealing with physical illnesses but also for anyone who is trying to get control over life and manage stress.

This book gives women the tools they can use to achieve peace of mind and cope with stress. As the authors promise, the book is as close to attending a real-life mind-body wellness seminar as one can get. Each of the early chapters focuses on a mind-body technique, such as: relaxation; proper breathing; emotional expression; self-nurturing; social support; and proper nutrition and exercise. Each technique is described in a simple way that readers can start doing them on their own. The last chapters each deal with a specific medical condition that are common among women. These include PMS, menopause, infertility, cancer, etc., and how the mind-body techniques can help to either alleviate the symptoms or at least enable women to cope with them.

Examples from real women are inspiring. The authors have written a compassionate, scientifically sound, and thoroughly useful, practical book that's sure to help all women.

This book was recommended to me last spring by members of my infertility support group. I love this book! It was the first book to acknowledge the amount of stress, pain and depression infertile women go through. I use the relaxation techniques not just for infertility, but for every crisis in my life. The advice is practical, simple, and easy to use throughout the day. And it does seem as if the book was written just for me! The audio tapes are helpful as well. The book is a true gift. I just donated a copy to a friend going through infertility, with the stern instruction that I wanted it back. Of the 5 books I gave her, this was the only one that's on loan!

I loved this book. It's words are healing and just reading it helped me relax. I'm a stressed out grad student who was able to benefit from the relaxation and cognitive restructing techniques the authors describe. Although the book speaks specifically to women in certain circumstances that I haven't really experienced (infertility, pms, menopause...), it still spoke to me and reminded me to take good care of myself

I first heard of Alice Domar and the Harvard Mind-Body Institute's Infertility Program in an article which highlighted a research study that found that infertile women who underwent a relaxation program had a higher rate of pregnancy than a control group. Living nowhere near Boston, I was very interested to discover that Dr. Domar had written a book. The book is wonderful and I recommend it to people going through infertility all of the time. I am not one to go for touchy-feely stuff, and this is not at all like that. Rather, it is a down to earth, medically-based, normal, and intelligent approach to getting our lives together. It is a very important companion to anyone undergoing infertility treatment.

I read this book at a time in my life when I was faced with infertility problems. My husband and I had tried for two years to become pregnant and even sought the advise of a specialist. I found this book and started reading the section on inferility and the stresses related to it. I found myself totally imerged in it. At times I would sit there and cry because I felt that it was weritten for me. That was two years ago. We now have a beautiful 10 month old daughter and are so very thankful for the written advise. I have recommended this to many relatives and friends.

i wrote the previous review. i would just like to add how valuable this book has been to me. when i read "healing mind, healthy woman", i was struggling with over 3 years of secondary infertility. as soon as i began the relaxation exercises, i noticed an improvement in my life immediately. i was more calm and more patient with my daughter and husband. the writing exercises allowed me to recognize how i had been blaming & punishing myself, until i finally forgave myself enough to get the treatment that i needed and deserved. my fertility treatment has less than 50% success rate, but i am now pregnant after just 1 cycle! and i didn't experience any side effects from the drugs involved, even though most women reported having them. i credit the skills i learned in this book for enabling me to be at my healthiest and therefore increasing the effectivity of my treatment. i would definitely recommend this book to all women, not just those with health problems. i will continue to use the skills i learned to ensure that i have a healthy & happy pregnancy. thank you very much, ms. alice domar & mr. henry dreher, for changing my life. i wish i could have written to you both directly. i hope you will get to read this review.

This may be a good book for seomone who is not familiar with any form of mind body medicine, yoga, meditation, ect. For me, it was very conventional, not at all progressive..basically just talks about simple relaxtion techniques that are pretty common. And, it is kind of an infomercial for her training programs. I kept waiting for the book to get better or inspiring and it just never did.

After 2 miscarriages (on Clomid) I was a wreck. A friend gave me this book and without Clomid I got pregnant and delivered a healty happy boy. We're now pregnant again with #2 (another boy!) and I have re-read 2 of her chapters at least 25 times each. I wish I could meet Alice and tell her what a life changing book this was for me.

I read this book before I read "Conquering Infertility" and I thought it was amazing and bought copies for so many friends.. it's written for every woman and offers a wide range of treatments and especially, lots of hope. I now recommend it to every girlfriend of mine struggling with life and lots of medical/psychological issues as I recommend "Conquering Infertility" to every woman I met going through fertility treatments.