Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing

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Nautilus Silver Award winner 2018 in the category ‘Women in the 21st
Century’.What if the sick women of the world are the ‘canaries in the coal
mine’ of a toxic culture?Included in the 100 best books in Women’s
Spirituality by the Californian Institute of Integral Studies.Autoimmune
diseases are sky-rocketing, but the medical system seems asleep at the
wheel.Medicine Woman voices a deep yearning for a broader vision of what it
means to be human than our current paradigm allows for, calling on an ancient
archetype of healing, Medicine Woman, to re-vision how we can navigate
sickness and harness its transformational powers in order to heal. Medicine
Woman is the eagerly-awaited sister book to Nautilus Silver-Award-Winning
Burning Woman from Amazon bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce. This audacious
questioning of the current medical system’s ability to deal with the modern
epidemic of chronic illness, combines a raw personal memoir of sickness and
healing, woven through with voices of dozens of other long-term sick women of
the world and a feminine cultural critique that digs deep into the roots of
patriarchal medicine. Pearce takes us from its ancient Greek roots, through
the influences of the Enlightenment and Christianity, the wholesale
destruction of the wise woman tradition and Western colonial destruction of
native medicines to the current technocratic, capitalist model of medicine.
Medicine Woman asks the uncomfortable questions that our culture refuses to
face:Why chronic illness, mental health issues, medical prescriptions and
costs are rising exponentially.Why women are the major sufferers of the modern
epidemic of auto-immune conditions.Why women are twice as likely to be
medicated for depression.Why women tend to be taken less seriously by medical
professionals.Packed with dozens of healing arts exercises and hundreds of
medicine questions to help integrate body and mind in the healing process.
Like Burning Woman, this book promises initiation by transmission,
reconnecting us directly with the soul of healing. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Womancraft Publishing (October 11, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 333 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 38
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.84 x 8.5 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #982,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,336 in General Women's Health #2,340 in Healing
• #2,336 in General Women's Health