The Sunshine Principle: A Radically Simple Guide To Natural Catholic Healing

by Melody Lyons

The Sunshine Principle is that the greatest potential for healing occurs when we align our behaviors with God's natural, biological, and spiritual laws. We see this play out repeatedly in the Church's teachings, Sacred Scripture, and Sacred Tradition. Once the gimmicks, verbiage, and misunderstandings related to natural wellness are stripped away, we are left with a simple formula based on God's design for creation and His great love for us. Every detail of daily living-from what we eat to how we pray-is broken down to this principle, making healing possible, accessible, and joyful! This book is a testimony to the truth of God's love and attentiveness through His natural gifts, and a bridge for the seeker who wants to explore pharmaceutical alternatives without falling into the errors of New Age earth and body worship. It presents a simple plan to help gently restore an individual, familial, and cultural vision to that which God intended for His beloved people. The enemies of God want us sick, depressed, oppressed, anxious, numbed, confused, and defeated. Let us reject those things which dull the senses and make the body ill and the intellect more inclined to despair. Let us fight for joy, strength, hope, and clarity. God created this body to serve Him. Serviam!

252 pages, Paperback

Published September 22, 2020

Reviews

[Maxine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is excellent! I feel so motivated and inspired now to keep moving forward with my healing. I highly recommend this for any Catholic struggling with chronic illness. I needed this perspective.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Little of this was new to me, but the sound Catholic presentation was refreshing and helpful. This is a resource that I will share with others and retain for future reference.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rounding up from 3.5 stars. The first main section of the book was only satisfactory to me. It was encouraging, but did not stand out as new or particularly helpful. The author did do a good job of explaining the ways that a person could get started healing and the different arenas in which one might have to do so - food, environment, etc. but it felt a little too long and a little too unspecific. It was near the middle of the book, where she began to really get into how this affects us as Catholics and our exhortation to take care of our bodies to live and serve where she began to shine. I thought “as a healing book, this isn’t super special, but as a Catholic book, this is beneficial.” The rest of the book was also good - including the healing stories, the chapter on caretaking. I feel too much pressure as the first goodreads reviewer of this book... I do have to say that while it was a good read, worthy of my time, and while I took away good things - what I hoped to take away was that it was somehow more affordable to heal than it seems. Before buying the ebook I had gotten the impression that it was going to share a truth about healing that would make it less expensive. One could argue that, depending on one’s insurance coverage or lack-thereof, a natural healing is *less* expensive than the typical, often less helpful, medical route. And one could argue (as she did) that paying the money now is the best investment possible and will save money later. But practically, as someone who is walking this road and can afford (not that it doesn’t hurt) the extra costs of supplements and testing and organic food (for myself, not always the whole family), I can see how natural healing is often cost prohibitive. She unfortunately wasn’t able to change my view.

[Marguerite D. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not based on Catholic principals, but rather on Novus Ordo principals. Big difference.