Heal Your Child from the Inside Out: The 5-Element Way to Nurturing Healthy, Happy Kids

by Robin Ray Green LAC/MTCM

"With her brilliant mastery of the Chinese Five-Element System, as well as her compassionate understanding from her own experiences as a parent, Robin Ray Green is the perfect guide to show you how to read your child’s individual map. This book is a wonderfully practical and comprehensive ‘user’s manual’ for your child’s optimal health!” — Jean Haner, author of The Five Element Solution, and The Wisdom of Your Child’s Discover Your Child’s True Nature with Chinese Face ReadingDrawing from the ancient wisdom of the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Robin Ray Green, L.Ac., MTCM, offers simple solutions for creating a natural healing program that is as unique as your child. Questionnaires and quizzes help you gain an understanding of your child’s 5-Element type —whether it’s Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water —to allow you to diagnose imbalances within the body that create health issues. Once you’ve gained a solid understanding of the 5 Elements and how health conditions are affected by elemental imbalances, nutrition, and lifestyle, you’ll learn simple techniques —such as acupressure, massage, and meditation —that will help your child achieve vibrant health.Ultimately, empowered with this knowledge and a new, holistic perspective on health, you’ll be able to augment Western treatments with time-tested natural solutions to help your child, and your whole family, heal naturally.

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2016

Reviews

[Charissa Shepard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book focused on diet to a concerning degree. There were very weird specific takes on diets that I would boil down to the following:
-Everything in processed food is bad.
-Food and diet are a huge part of anything going on with your body. ( Yes, but chill out.)
-The diet the author recommends is extraordinarily strict and strange given the lack of scientific data.

I did like the general info about CTM but honestly, I don't trust how integrated this author's approach is for life as it is here and now. I got the sense that they wrote from a place of "Way long ago everyone was healthier/things were better/we were less complicated so get back to that." Which just reminds me of controlling/sheltering impulses that form a feedback loop of "all things are within my control & if I just try harder/be better/adopt better values/morals my body will be fixed." Not a fan of that mindset. Has. Not. Worked. For. Me.

The anecdotal evidence of the efficacy of specific diets and massages (there is only anecdotal evidence, btw) came from a place that seemed completely unaware of the change that tending and caring and touching can make a big difference by itself without supporting that a specific massage or diet is the cause of the healing. If something helps you, great! But this book is generalizing something that seems hyper-specific.

Most interesting: the Elements and the quiz about your element.