The history of women healers from the ancient Paleolithic times, to Medieval Europe, to the modern US, this powerful volume by Jeanne Achtenburg will transform the way you view women's legacy of healing arts.
Book Reviews
Recommended women's healing arts books including women's cycles, self-care, menstrual health, fertility awareness, breast health, history of women healers, women's spirituality, menopause, midwifery, and more.
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Dr. Chistiane Northrup is a wealth of information on holistic and allopathic healthcare for women. Author, speaker, teacher, and physician.
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The updated edition of the classic and comprehensive women's health book by a feminist women's health cooperative.
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Written by an experienced wise women herbalist, this herbal book for women covers all the cycles of women's health and more. All of Rosemary Gladstar's books are highly recommended for your home health and herbal resource library.
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Learn all about Fertility Awareness and how to prevent or achieve pregnancy naturally. This is not the Rhythm Method - this is about observing and charting your basal body temperature, cervical changes, and fluid changes for accurate observations of your inner ecology.
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Holistic guide to fertility awareness and charting your personal cycle for empowered pregnancy planning and self-health knowledge.
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This short volume is a landmark in feminist women's health research of the history of women healers and the slander of midwives, herbalists, and wise women as witches in the Medieval Times.
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A powerful novel about a women who is a midwife and healer. The red tent is where women used to gather during menses, birth, and sometimes illness. The story of Dinah takes us into the sacred space of women's gatherings, lives, and cycles during this moving novel set in Biblical times.
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Written by a women who was born remembering her connection with the divine, this book guides each reader to access their intuition and divine guidance within through self-love, remembering, rituals, nature, sound, and more.
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A guide to the history of female shamanism written by Vicki Noble, creator of the Motherpeace Institute. Includes her personal story, anthropological and archeological research of women's lives, and information on ritual, dreams, art, and healing.
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Yoga practices for women, especially designed to increase fertility, heal pelvic and reproductive health imbalances, and promote vitality. Explore the lunar feminine side of yoga.
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Balance your menstrual, fertility, and sexual cycles through the use of acupressure. Based upon Five Element Theory, Jeanne Blum has synthesizes her knowledge of acupressure's secret women's health points to create a self-care system for women to regulate their cycles, balance the hormones, and dissipate symptoms of imbalance.
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Susun Weed's wise women herbal healing guide to breast health and preventing or healing breast cancer.
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The classic wise woman herbal book by Susun Weed. Introduces the three traditions of healing, the wise women way of healing, and the six steps of healing. Learn about how the common weeds that grow abundantly around us can be nourishing, tonifying, and healing to our bodies and hearts.
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John Robbins clearly articulates the failings of the medical model of healthcare in America and calls for a revolution in medicine that integrates medical and complementary care to create a new culture of healthcare that values both men and women's bodies. John Robbins introduces this book with an in depth discussion of birth, midwives, and the control of women by patriarchal medicine in pregnancy, fertility, menopause, and more. A valuable, inspiring, and moving must-read!
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A wonderful women's herbal book, including the wise women tradition of healing, herbal medicine making, menstrual health, reproductive health, nutrition, nourishing the immune system and more. One of my favorite herbal books!!!
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Gentle healing touch through self-care to heal our centers. Gentle touch, breathing exercises, and awareness can help to release tension and stuck energy from our bellies to regain health, vitality, creativity, and balance.
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This oracle deck and book honor and celebrate the divine feminine and all her aspects! The cards in this deck all contain the magnificant art of Mara Friedman, illuminating the many archetypes of the sacred feminine. This deck goes beyond the traditional tarot deck to include four new cards to illustrate the evolution of the sacred feminine, as well as seven chakra cards. The accompaning book written by Isha Lerner is packed full of powerful information about goddess mythology, flower essences, meditations, spiritual wisdom, and inspirational guidance. This is a fun set to play with personally, or as part of a women's circle, ritual, birthday, or mother blessing.
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Herbal healing, women's consciousness, and holistic healing are woven together in this groundbreaking classic volume by the late Jeannine Parvati Baker, a treasured midwife, herbalist, yogini, teacher, and counselor.
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An empowering book of women's sexuality. Learn all about the amazing clitoris in this informative and educated women-centered book that includes the truth about clitoral anatomy, female ejaculation, and increasing your sexual pleasure.
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The Circle of Life by midwives and women's health experts Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard explores beyond the traditional trinity of maiden-mother-crone to illuminate ten more feminine archetypes for all women. Women have such diverse lives, and many women feel constrained by the archetype of mother when they do not have children, or by the crone archetype when still young and vibrant while menopausal. Now you can embrace your inner priestess, blood sister, midwife, lover, queen, matriarch, and more.
















