Alternative Healing

Many antidepressants - the first line in our standard of care for treating depression - bring with them potential health risks, yet one in six Americans takes medication to alleviate feeling sad, anxious, stuck, or unable to focus or sleep. More and more, conventional medicine pathologizes how we respond to life's challenges - like feeling trapped in an unfulfilling job, grieving the death of a loved one, or being anxious about a bad relationship - telling us that they're symptoms of disease.

WHILE WE ALL DESIRE happy, inspiring relationships, our reality often looks quite different. Instead of love and support, we encounter toxic personalities in stressful partners, demanding bosses, abusive parents, and others. These relationships tend to spiral from good to bad and back again, leaving us feeling stuck and powerless. In this guide, shaman and naturopath Stefan Limmer explains how we can track the causes of toxic relationships on the soul level, clear and harmonize our energy field, and activate our ancestral power.

In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth other doctors don’t always understand and often won’t share if they do - that chronic illness is complicated, and that treatment is not just a matter of test results and prescriptions but requires a more comprehensive approach. By sharing her own struggle with a disabling autoimmune crisis, which forced her to question her own conventional medical training and embrace the integrative principles of functional medicine, Li reveals the insider knowledge sufferers need to truly begin healing - mind, body, and spirit.

Living with gut problems means it can feel like our insides are working against us, but have you ever taken a moment to really listen to your gut? Inspired by her own healing journey, expert patient Cara Wheatley-McGrain has developed a revolutionary approach to thriving with IBS and IBD through understanding, loving and listening to your gut.

The human body evolved to live well and fight off disease on a supply of only a dozen or so essential nutrients. Unfortunately, modern meat-laden, high-sugar diets provide catastrophically inadequate levels of those nutrients. Scientific research consistently indicates nationwide vitamin and mineral deficiencies in our country, and we spend over a trillion dollars each year on disease care.

Have you been diagnosed with one of the seven deadly chronic lifestyle diseases: type two diabetes, heart disease, stroke, certain types of cancer, obesity, arthritis, anxiety, or depression? Do you wish there were more choices to heal your illness? According to the National Health Council, 133 million Americans suffer from at least one chronic illness. By the year 2020, that number will have grown to almost 50% of the adult US population. Yet if we take an integrative approach and include complementary and alternative medicines, we can tackle this growing health crisis.

Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients - people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health.

The author's beautiful and provocative exploration of the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation is revealed through 200 plants and hive products. This book includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from 21 countries and six continents - and the most complete evaluation of honey ever published.

Quantum-Touch is the touch-based healing technique that uses the chi of both practitioner and client, bringing them into harmony to allow the body to heal itself. Quantum-Touch differs from other healing techniques because it does not require long years of study and presents none of the common hurdles of understanding or application; anyone can learn to use it to become a healer. In this new edition of his best-selling guide, Richard Gordon leads the listener step by step, clearly explaining how to use breathing and body-focusing techniques to raise one's energy levels.

A fantastic boyage awaits. In this three-CD set, Shakti Gawain gently leads us through four exceptional guided meditations.

This first-of-its-kind herbal guide takes you through the origins of herbal practices rooted in African American tradition—from Ancient Egypt and the African tropics to the Caribbean and the United States. Inside you'll find the stories of herbal healers like Emma Dupree and Henrietta Jeffries, who made modern American herbalism what it is today. After rediscovering the forgotten legacies of these healers, African American Herbalism dives into the important contributions they made to the world of herbalism.

Step into a realm of profound rest and healing with 10 hours of serene, meditation-like dreamscapes, infused with 0.5 Hz to 4 Hz Delta Wave Binaurals. These precisely engineered frequencies work in harmony with your brain’s natural rhythms, guiding you into the deepest states of sleep where true transformation begins.

Chakras: An Introduction to Using the Chakras for Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Wellbeing is a simple, modern guide to chakras, offering insight into how they function and how to access their healing energies in your own life. These seemingly mystical energy meridians are key centers of energy in our bodies; tapping into their power can promote health and happiness, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine's effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety.

Turn back the clock on aging and nourish your body with the power of castor oil! As a practical and easy-to-follow handbook that demystifies the many uses of this revolutionary oil, The Lost Book of Castor Oil Elixirs is a handy guide that reveals how you can effortlessly prepare a wide range of herbal recipes and neuropathic remedies that will make your body glow!

In our modern-day world, it can often prove difficult to step back and recenter ourselves. This Beta Wave composition is packed full of many binaural beats designed with pleasant sound waves to enable our mind to release stress and find a moment of true relaxation and focus. For a solid 4.5 HOURS, the sound waves produce a gentle, pleasant, and very calming sensation that listeners will want to repeat over and over while sleeping, studying, and working.

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine on a practical week-by-week, step-by-step plan, covering diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, and environment - all of the aspects of daily living that affect health and well-being. And he shows how his program can be tailored to the specific needs of pregnant women, senior citizens, overweight people, and those at risk for cancer, among others.

You have an almost unknown inheritance that God created for you. Would you like to discover more? The Book on God’s Healing Code is an introduction into not-so-well-known energy-based methods that can bridge the gap between the seen and unseen. Used as complementary and alternative treatment methods, energy healing may just be the breakthrough you have been looking for.

Fascia, Fluid, and Forks is not just another book on healing—it’s a groundbreaking exploration of how the body’s hidden forces of fascia, fluid, and vibration shape pain, mobility, and recovery. In this second edition, Andrew and Bobbi Jo Weaver unveil their revolutionary Vibrational Fascia Release Technique™ (VFRT), a method that has transformed the lives of thousands by addressing pressurized fluid pockets trapped within the fascial system.

In 2017, a transformational research project by Tamara Goldsby et al. discovered that sound healing led to relaxation while simultaneously reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. And the best part: You, yes you can learn how to harness these healings.