For decades, Christiane Northrup has been helping women navigate their lives with grace and joy. This elegant, compact volume offers her trademark wisdom in a fresh form, filled with pointed reminders “to help you develop a deeper respect for, and connection to, your own body and its exquisite guidance system [to] create a vibrantly healthy body, mind, and spirit.”
Each beautifully designed black-and-white page carries a quote that touches on a topic of deep significance: everything from heart-listening to epigenetics to the importance of knowing that your decisions about medical treatment are not irreversible.
Examples include: You are an ever-renewing, ever-changing, ever-growing being, born with an inner guidance that helps you create and maintain vibrant health and happiness. When faced with a dilemma, take a moment to sit with the issue. Don’t rush to decide what to do. Intend to let Divine inspiration flow to you, and it will be so! The next time you get an ache or a pain, soften the area around it with compassion. Ask your body what it needs. Listen deeply for the answer.
I love Christiane Northrup and I love inspirational quotes. Put them both together and you have this wonderful little book. I carry this around with me whenever I need a pick-me-up. There is plenty of room in the margins for added thoughts, quotes and other such lovely things (I have some stickers in mine!). It is a wonderful addition to your mindfulness practice...or just a great book to read!
Really like this book, sometimes just little bits of reading can help you see the light ! I tend to keep to myself these days and this book has helped me see and feel things in a new way and definitely gives me hope!
There's no particular thematic order or dating to this collection of short quotes from Christianae Northrup; think of it more as random bits of insight to reflect on from relationships to esteem to women's power and perspective to women's bodies. It runs a wide gamut of thoughts on increasing one's sense of worth and acts as a pick me up for inspiration. It was good for contemplation for brief moments at a time, though the format didn't do much for me.