Body Belief: How to Heal Autoimmune Diseases, Radically Shift Your Health, and Learn to Love Your Body More

by Aimee E. Raupp

Acupuncturist and herbalist Aimee Raupp, M.S., L.Ac., offers a holistic plan for healing from autoimmune disease through reconnection to yourself, renewal of your beliefs, and reawakening of your health. This book will guide you on a life-changing path to radically shift your health and love your body more. Raupp posits that the rampant rise in autoimmune illness is due to three co-existing · Body disconnect (a loss of connection to the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of self, resulting in systemic body chaos)· Behavioral sabotage (where deep-rooted beliefs negatively dictate your behavior, which dictates your health), and · Environmental toxins (exposure to external disease-promoting elements). With warmth, sensitivity, and practicality, Raupp will help you to resurrect your full potential to happily and gracefully inhabit your body and mind.As you follow Raupp’s two-phase Body Belief diet and Body Belief lifestyle roadmap, your health will begin to thrive, both inside and out. Included are a diet plan, shopping lists, menus, meditations, mantras, and DIY and commercial suggestions for bath, beauty, and home products for self-care.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Medical, Self Help

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2018

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much of the information is familiar (eat whole foods, exercise 30 minutes daily, get plenty of sleep, and minimize exposure to chemicals through the use of body and hair products). A key point that the author makes repeatedly is to develop an awareness of your body. Instead of taking medication to treat the symptoms, address the stress factors in your life (yes, a toxic work environment could be giving you stomach problems), eat healthy, and get enough sleep to let your body recover.

[SimoneS · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information, but not optimally laid out. Information that should have been on one page was cut off right in the middle. Although sentances and paragraphs being cut off works for most literature, it doesn't feel right and is hard to follow for food plans & body care plans. It is difficult how much the author refers to another part of the book. I found myself flipping through it as if it's a Choose Your Own Adventure novel. This information could have benefited from being a larger skinny book; maybe even a workbook or textbook.

[Ellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty radical to the point of not being actionable. But also valid. I wanted a little more direct reference to the literature she cites what with the severity of her “replace all your household goods and beauty products now or die” sort of messaging. Certainly written with good intent and a hopeful message for the autoimmune road. I’m hoping if I muster it up to try her hyperradical “plan” (post-travels, post-this phase of life) that it’s not a big ole waste—you know the vibes.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aimee does an excellent job of explaining how the mind-body connection works in unhealthy people, how to overcome autoimmune dis-ease and feel better in general. It is a long, arduous and difficult process (in such as, you have to eliminate about 90% of the things in your diet), not to mention learn how to think positively and meditate, but I have heard first-hand how her method works.

So, now I have to get myself ready to engage in a positive relationship with MYSELF, and also give up foods like potatoes and tomatoes (the few vegetables I like), and worst of all, sugar!!!

She accurately describes how grains these days are sprayed with poisonous pesticides, which is not only disturbing but unhealthy.

I know, after going gluten free, I can do it, but I have to be READY.

Aimee's book is like a journal, she encourages you to write your thoughts and make check lists throughout. She acknowledges it won't be easy, but that it's worth it. She's trained in Eastern medicine, and swears by acupuncture, which I have tried for pain, but I would like to try it for my over well-being and immune system.

I think the best way to get started, is to start out slowly and eliminate a few things at a time. She also suggests writing three things you are grateful for each night!

[Jenn Coonce · Rating 5 out of 5]

This diet saved my gut after years of struggling with gut issues. I had tried many many diets to heal my gut after picking up a parasite in India. Some worked, but not completely and diets like GAPS were so hard to follow they weren't sustainable. Aimee took the best things from these diets and put them together for a livable and shorter-term system reset that finally healed my gut. I thought I never could, and really tried this as a last resort--and it worked.

[Erin Lawwill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I agree with some of the reviews about the book being a bit scattered. I think the information in it is good. The beginning spends some time on the "power of intention" thinking (putting positive thoughts in will help the body develop positive results), but after the first part, it did seem to have you going back and forth for reference quite a bit.

Someone commented it may have been better written as a workbook. I would say I think that either as a supplement or the whole book, that may have been helpful.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a basic understanding of autoimmunity but not a deep one. This book helped explain it to me as well as laid out a through plan to help bring your body back to a healthy state. Of course like anything really important, it's not an easy plan and will take time. But that's ok because I have learned from this book to give myself grace and take things one at a time.

[Serity · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciated the aspect of taking care of your thoughts and how my daily internal monologue affects my health as well (i.e. every thought has a vibration or frequency, which can affect your cells positively or negatively). The food plan is detailed and helpful as well.

[Dax · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the methodology and the conversations we SHOULD be having with our bodies. Much of the diet itself seems really hard to actually do unless you come from money.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Clear and to the point.