The author of Asian Health Secrets, the highly acclaimed guide to herbal remedies and Asian health practices, has turned her considerable talents to a comprehensive program that will benefit women and men across a broad age spectrum. Personal Renewal is the culmination of Letha Hadady's many quests throughout the world for rejuvenation secrets, curative treatments, and restorative techniques that promote the health and integrity of the entire person. Additional benefits of this program are beauty, happiness, and a solid sense of well-being.
Open the pages of this book and you will find yourself under the guidance of a personal trainer of a different stripe, one who will show you the basic principles of living an ageless life: how to have a better-toned, more youthful body, how to avoid emotional distress and attain a peaceful state of mind, and how to nourish your body inside and out for maximum well-being.
In Personal Renewal Letha Hadady provides a fount of knowledge for those interested in truly changing their lives: questionnaires for self-diagnosis, advice on designing personal health regimens, exercises to firm and strengthen the body and enhance sexuality, diet and herbal supplements, visualization techniques, and restorative treatments, as well as recipes for curative baths and self-massage procedures to enliven the skin and restore sexual energy. The result--you look and feel beautiful, while enjoying a more vital life.
It's hard to think of a physical or psychological problem that this book does not address--and from two or three different directions. Whether the solution to a health concern lies in a cup of herbal tea, a dose of traditional Chinese medicine, a massage, a visualization exercise, or a combination of all four, Letha Hadady extends a wise, helpful hand and walks us through her vast store of alternative-medicine knowledge.
Hadady, an herbalist, acupuncturist, and author of Asian Health Secrets, bases her healing treatments on the theory that there's an original and positive you that the right therapies can uncover. She says that the illness, injury, or just lack of joy that's keeping your original self under wraps can be overcome with the use of herbs, homeopathic remedies, Eastern (Chinese, Japanese) medicine, massage, and visualization techniques. Blending different approaches to healing is her strategy--she often combines a dose of homeopathic medicine with herbs and Eastern medicine to forge the most effective cure.
Personal Renewal provides solutions to problems ranging from the mundane to the spiritual. Is carpal tunnel syndrome a problem for you? Try the regimen in chapter 6, "Computer-Related Stress and Pain." Feeling angry and exhausted while going through a tough personal time, like a divorce? Skip to chapter 16, "Heal Your Broken Heart." Class reunion coming up? Treat yourself to an herbal facelift using the recipes and techniques laid out in "Defy the Law of Gravity."
Each chapter opens with a statement of the goals to be met and a list of the materials you will need. (One caveat: certain ingredients in the medicines that Hadady recommends may strike some as over the top--like the silver, gold, or processed coal, i.e., bitumen, supplements.) Recipes, a glossary of herbal terms with pronunciation guidelines (especially helpful for the Chinese terms), and a directory of suppliers for the rarer products round out this clearly written, inspiring handbook to uncovering the original you. --Stefanie Durbin
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"A treasury of knowledge for the personal self." --Bernard Jensen
The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, 'Letha Hadady, one of the nation's leading experts on natural Chinese remedies, is leading a quiet lady-like revolution to bring herbal medicines from the Far East and elsewhere into everyday use in American homes.' Letha, trained in traditional Chinese acupuncture and Asian herbal medicine, is adjunct faculty for New York Open Center, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and The Renfield Center for Nursing Education, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
Letha has been featured on many national television programs, including Barbara Walters' The View, NBC's Today Show, Donnie and Marie, Extra!, The Learning Channel, The Food Network, CNN, and CBS. She writes regular natural health columns for New Living magazine (USA and online) for award-winning Heal India magazine (Delhi, India) and Healthy You magazine (India, Singapore, and Middle East.) Letha updates her books, articles, and videos at: www.asianhealthsecrets.com. Her natural health and beauty advice is featured on many other global websites and blogs.
Letha is a regular health expert on talk radio, including "Montel Across America" with Montel Williams at airamerica.com in the U.S. and abroad. Her topics range from seasonal health problems--flu, depression, and Asian foods or herbs for beauty issues--to events such as Chinese New Year. Letha's articles have appeared in popular magazines, including GreatLife, Allure, Marie Claire, Self, Fitness, Body and Soul, Natural Health, Let's Live, and Jane. Letha was on the cover and the lead article for Delicious! magazine. She was featured in the November, 2009 issue of Conde Nast Traveler (Spain.) Letha's walking tours of Asian herbal markets in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are famous. Her natural health and beauty students and readers come from all walks of life.
Letha is the author of personal transformation, natural health and beauty books, including Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine (Crown/Three Rivers Press: 1998). This finely illustrated Washington Post best-seller has a foreword by H H. the 14th Dalai Lama. Called a 'treasure' and 'a modern classic in alternative medicine' it has become the bible in its field for medical professionals and individual readers.
Personal Renewal (Harmony/iUniverse:2008) with a foreword by Dr. Bernard Jensen, guides readers, troubled with menopause, divorce, and other life changes, toward a path of healthy self-discovery. The book features a practical "Herbal Calender" to organize herb-use. Personal Renewal has been called "a treasure for the personal self." and "a love song for enlightened maturing."
Healthy Beauty (Wiley 2003; Backinprint and Kindle 2007; with a foreword by Clif deRaita)features easy to use beauty treatments for men and women. It offers help for complexion, hair, posture, voice, and inspires readers to discover their personal beauty. Reaching beyond the usual health or beauty book, it proves that our beauty should not be limited by convention: the social, ethnic, sexual, racial or other prejudices of the popular media.
Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret to Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health (2003; coming soon at iUniverse) is filled with delicious slimming international recipes, Asian SuperFoods, and easy, enjoyable ways to lose weight and keep it off. For example, Letha describes how she taught herself swimming for healthy weight management watching Esther Williams movies.
All of Letha's books are beautifully illustrated by Letha's mother, Letha Elizabeth Hadady, who lives in New Mexico and paints flowers.
Letha, raised in New Mexico, sang opera in Europe, and has a Masters in psychology from the University of Paris. She is nationally certified in acupuncture (NCCAOM) after studying at Tri-State Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, New York and the Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian in Shanghai.
MEDIA PRAISE FOR LETHA HADADY
"I can't thank you enough for sharing really useful, practical health information with us."--Montel Williams on Montel Across America
"I used to think I knew something about alternative medicine. When I read Asian Health Secrets I learned something new on every page."--Bill Thompson, AP Radio
"Hadady is an ambassador between curious Americans, trying to overcome their ignorance of alternative medicine, and Chinese herbalists, who are uneasy about opening their customs to the scrutiny of outsiders."--Newsday, L.A. Times syndicate
"The tall, slender herbalist found her calling after a life-threatening illness. . . Her encyclopedic knowledge of health and beauty is evident."--Daily News
"Letha unearths the wisdom of the ancients."--New York
"Letha has all natural ways to change your life. She looks so young!"--Barbara Walters,'The View'
"I am confident that Letha Hadady will bring the ancient knowledge of the great cultures of Asia to a larger public."--Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
"Letha Hadady is a blessing to those she touches. Her contribution is a treasure of knowledge for the personal self."--Dr. Bernard Jensen, doyen of the natural medicine movement
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5.0 out of 5 starsDo yourself a favor,buy this book!, August 21, 1999
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This review is from: Personal Renewal: Your Guide to Vitality, Allure, and a Joyful Life Using Healing Herbs, Diet, Movement, and Visualizations (Hardcover)
Informative, entertaining, and personal this book has it all. Written clearly it lifts your spirit and makes you want to improve your health. Put it on your Holiday list to buy for ALL the people you LOVE. It is a book that will be treasured forever. But first buy it for yourself!!!
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5.0 out of 5 starsPersonal Renewal is a book you will refer to again and again, June 9, 1999
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This review is from: Personal Renewal: Your Guide to Vitality, Allure, and a Joyful Life Using Healing Herbs, Diet, Movement, and Visualizations (Hardcover)
In this book, Letha Hadady has taken a very complex and difficult topic and presented it in a simple accessible fashion. Through the changes she suggested, I have rid myself of chronic lower back pain and various digestive discomforts. My daughter is experiencing increased energy from following Ms. Hadady's advice relating to asthma. Personal Renewal is a book you will refer to again and again. It is a simple, straightforward guide to Asian diagnosis, diet and herbs. It makes an excellent companion to her previous book, "Asian Health Secrets", but can absolutely be understood and enjoyed on it's own.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA very readable &practical text allows easy self healing ., March 20, 1999
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This review is from: Personal Renewal: Your Guide to Vitality, Allure, and a Joyful Life Using Healing Herbs, Diet, Movement, and Visualizations (Hardcover)
It is a pleasure to browse, read, or reference this very practical book from a completely charming healer and educator.For many this will be an easy ,but not simplistic, introduction to the world of traditional health care outside the drugs and surgery regimen of conventional medicine.For many more this is a resource for home care, prevention, and revitilization, one which respects the needs and intelligence of the reader.The truths which she shares along with her 'secret recipes' are coming from a deep spring of experience and wisdom.These insights will be appreciated by many female readers.Her sincerity and encyclopedic knowledge will be appreciated by anyone who takes a little time to explore the many phases of caring for oneself which she so generously describes. Letha is very knowledgable of the rich treasure house of Oriental Medicine, and gives us a friendly guided tour of some its vast rooms,especially those dealing with self care and home remedies. One feels like she is taking the reader on a personalized adventure in rejuvenation, an easy journey with an artist of gentle healing techniques.Her pallette includes foods, movement, visualization, and healing herbs both East and West. What is more important is the context and inspiration which she provides for the reader to really build a joyful life through enhancing beauty, preventing illness,boosting energy, and working with various natural healing approaches.The author has clearly lived her philosophy, and practised deeply the gems gathered here,both for herself as well as with her patients and students.
Criticism is hard to find for any part of this self-help book, except that Ms. Hadady should have provided more referral resources to assist in finding good professional help when a reader has more questions, or needs to address a serious disease state by seeking alternative medicine support.There is clearly a need for a wiser and gentler method of doctoring beyond even skillful self medicating.We can only assume that she expects the reader to have already consumed her previous title "Asian Health Secrets", a richer tome which introduces a lot of the theory and belief systems which support the more how-to style of "Personal Renewal".If one has not banqueted with the first book,then this new work is still an elegant luncheon with a full menu of life supporting information and a fine sampling of healing spirit
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