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“To make sure the massage you receive is truly therapeutic and not of the sexual variety, be sure to visit a therapist with the proper credentials.”

WHAT! Bruh, I want to DNF this book so bad but it’s almost funny how bad it is. This is clearly written by a white man.

“Native Americans had tremendous faith in shamans’ healing powers, and their belief was powerful medicine in its own right. Often succeeding where Western medicine had failed.” Natives were/are very in tune with the earth. Their perceptiveness offered them the correct remedies for things, even if they didn’t fully understand the science behind it. This author is pissing me off

“These studies show that young people who are religious tend to be less sexually active and perform better in school, and that religious married couples are happier and less likely to divorce”… is this Christian propaganda. Why is this even a sentence in this book…

“Recent studies on the power of prayer in general have found that it can have measurable effects— even when the person being prayed for knows nothing about it!” Um, wrong! The STEP trial showed that prayer had no effect on patients. And patients who knew they were being prayed had higher rates of complications.