Recommended Books- Women's Health & Awareness

A Time to Celebrate: A Celebration of A Girl's First Menstrual Period
by Joan Morais as mentioned in the book Mother-Daughter Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, MD and on her Mother-Daughter Wisdom PBS TV special, shows the menstrual cycle as a gift and a healthy function of the female body. It is a book a mother, father, sister, aunt, grandmother, friend or mentor can give to a girl to celebrate her first menstrual period.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, MD
This is a book every woman should read even if you don't have children, you do have a mother. Healing the mother-daughter relationship is one of the first steps to creating life long health.

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, MD
Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.

Becoming Peers: Mentoring Girls into Womanhood by DeAnna L'am
This book provides practical guidelines for mentoring a girl into womanhood. It offers creative ceremonies and activities designed to honor a girl s transition and call her to new levels of maturity. At the same time, it presents the adult woman/mentor with powerful tools for enhancing her inner and outer life. The book is motivated by the belief that for a girl to enter womanhood in a meaningful way, it is essential that her mother and other special women in her life cultivate a new way of relating that will gradually help her to become their peer.

Passages Into Womanhood by Pamela Chubbuck, PhD
Pam helps you create empowering possibility and ceremony and points the way for you, as mentor, to find ways to heal yourself so that you can best assist the girl you love, become empowered and truly love herself. The stories Pam includes are written from her deep well of knowledge.

105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation by Kami McBride
Reclaim a sense of love and honor for your body and your menstrual cycle. 105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation invites you to explore healing tools that promote wellness and empowerment for your menstrual experience.

Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
With more than four million copies sold, this is book is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being.

Breast Cancer? Breast Health! by Susun S. Weed
Foods, exercises, and attitudes to keep your breasts healthy. Supportive complimentary medicines to easeside-effects of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or tamoxifen.

Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar
For centuries women have turned to herbs to cope with a wide variety of health problems and conditions. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, Herbal Healing for Women explains how to create remedies -- including teas, tinctures, salves, and ointments -- for the common disorders that arise in the different cycles of a woman's life. Covering adolescence, childbearing years, pregnancy and childbirth, and menopause, Rosemary Gladstar teacheshow herbs can be used to treat the symptoms of conditions such as acne, PMS, morning sickness, and hot flashes. A complete women's health-care manual.

Herbal Remedies for Women by Amanda Mcquade Crawford
Now, more than ever before, women are taking control of their own health and vitality by choosing herbal remedies as an alternative to traditional medicine. Because every year there are new research findings that women and their health providers need to know about, author Amanda McQuade Crawford, M.N.I.M.H, has used her clinical expertise to develop Herbal Remedies for Women.

The Wisdom of Menopause by Christiane Northrup, MD
Dr. Christiane Northrup has become one of American women's most trusted medical advisers. In Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she broke entirely new ground by demonstrating that women's most common medical problems are often rooted in the basic conditions of their lives-- and that they can return to health by learning to listen to their bodies. She also integrated advanced medical techniques with the best natural remedies, offering readers specific guidance on choosing the right approach for themselves.

New Menopausal Years by Susun S. Weed
The menopause "bible" for 350,000 women who've chosen strong bones and healthy hearts without recourse to hormones. A treasure trove of accessible, reliable, non-drug remedies.

The Herbal Menopause Book by Amanda McQuade Crawford
Any interested in holistic applications to common problems will welcome this herbal guide for women entering menopause. Natural treatments for related problems from depression and fibroids to hot flashes and osteoporosis are covered in clear chapters which have been thoroughly researched to provide the latest insights.

The Life of a Rose by Catherine Bear
The Life of a Rose is a Journey about the author delving into issues of physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuses beginning in childhood and ending at the point where she finds herself at rebirth.