Ovaries are only needed for childbearing, right? Wrong! The truth is, the ovaries have many functions vital to a woman's health, including an integral role in sexual satisfaction, quality of sleep, overall mood, and protection from breast cancer, colon cancer, and heart disease. When ovaries run out of eggs and fail, which is what happens at menopause, women's bodies are left far more vulnerable to these diseases, with significantly reduced sexual function. The information needed to prevent or delay menopause for at least thirty years, thus improving our sex lives and overall health as we age, has been available, but no one's told us about it. Until now.

In her groundbreaking book, Preventing Menopause: How to Stop Menopause Before It Starts, Beth Rosenshein explains how you can safely make menopause an optional phase of life. Working together with your doctor, and using the newest and most appropriate hormonal therapy, you can prolong ovarian function and maintain good health. Not only will this program provide birth control, but it will keep your sex drive alive too. One thing is for sure: this is not your mother's Hormone Replacement Therapy! For more information go to www.preventingmenopause.com.

Sacred Birthing: Birthing A New Humanity supports a baby's whole being. By awakening to timeless spiritual wisdom, Sacred Birthing becomes a parent's guide for protecting their baby's consciousness as it moves from spirit to earth.

At the time of birth, in order for the soul to be most fully received as soul and body mesh, the baby-body must be in the most open posture emotionally and physically. This requires that mother is fully conscious in the process of giving birth and is not energetically depressed by the action of drugs, for this also depresses the baby-body's vibration. If the baby-body is depressed, it is only able to accept that depressed equivalent of its soul vibration. This means the baby will spend a great part of his lifetime recouping the vibrational excellence that could have been his from the moment of birth.

Birth is of great significance to a baby's entire life. Birth crystallizes a blueprint weighted either toward attaining the baby's future potential or healing past karmic wounds. Parents can effect this by providing a birth that meets their baby's deepest needs. Sacred Birthing is a description of ways that support this goal. It uniquely speaks to how a baby can be born without the 'normal' harm to the body/soul connection that results in the more difficult though typical life path.

If you are interested in purchasing Sacred Birthing and live in the state of Hawaii, please contact the author directly.
Sunni Karll
501 A Kawelo Rd, Haiku, Maui, Hawaii, 96768.
808 573-1248

The total cost is then $44.00

Until now. With Menopause Before 40: Coping with Premature Ovarian Failure, Karin Banerd adds an important voice to menopause literature, addressing the distinct needs of the woman in premature menopause, as they are quite different from those of natural menopause. Banerd's personal experience and knowledge of premature menopause offers a unique perspective, as she shares her intimate, treacherous and painful journey that started at age 35.

In the book, Banerd describes the warning signs of hormonal decline and the havoc these unexpected changes wreaked on her life. She also highlights the unique context of premature menopause, how it necessitates a different set of responses from doctors, and what she feels those responses should be. She goes on to explain exactly what premature menopause is and how it differs from natural menopause. And finally, she details various strategies for maintaining optimum health during the menopausal years. The last section, in particular, demonstrates how premature menopause can be a wake-up call for making nutritional and lifestyle choices that have far-reaching effects into the senior years.

Unlike some of the other weight loss surgery books, two real women who actually experienced weight loss surgery wrote this book. They wanted to share their life altering experiences with others who have suffered as they have suffered. Their stories are real and their compassion for those who struggle with the fight against obesity is evident in their writings. Not only did they compile the information, share their stories and stories from others who have undergone weight loss surgery, they have gone beyond that. They offer suggestions and advise to give their readers the tools they need to make an informed decision and end their battle with obesity.

Culled from the latest medical research on breast self-examination, Susan Mendelsohn has created a journal for women that encourages them to practice monthly breast self-examination. She explains the limits of mammography and how it is only a component of a women's breast health practice, especially for younger women. Familiarity with one's body is the most important feature of self-care. Journaling and drawing these monthly self-exams not only invites this health ritual, but leaves a trace of information with one's doctors. The book is concisely informative with an excellent bibliography for women who want to read more on women's breast health.

The author writes: "Make this journal your own. Just by bringing it home, you are beginning to take your health and the health of your breasts more seriously."

In 1970, the Abortion Caravan travelled from Vancouver to Ottawa to demand legalization of "A Women's Right to Choose.' Nearly 500 women from across Canada joined them in dramatic actions on Mother's Day weekend - causing the House of Commons to abruptly adjourn in the midst of debate. However, the abortion law remained in the Criminal Code for nearly two more decades. BC feminists returned home and fought for repeal of the law, and to defeat anti-abortion take-overs of public hospitals. It was illegal to perform abortions in free-standing clinics.

When Dr. Henry Morgentaler won his case before the Canadian Supreme Court in 1988, and abortion became fully legal, it took Vancouver feminists only months to open BC's first abortion clinic. 'Everywoman's Health Centre' has survived against the odds -blockades, break-ins, death threats, financial problems, and a relentless anti-abortion court case. The whole social and political structure of the province was put on tilt. The reactions of government, hospitals, doctors, community organizations, political parties, the labour movement, and above all, women, are the stuff of this book. Winning Choice on Abortion tells all the stories, from the personal to the political, from the'Abortion Caravan' through the first year of 'Everywoman's Health Centre.'

SHAIRI'S JOURNEY THROUGH DARKNESS INTO LIGHT is a self-healing toolkit for women in the process of transforming their lives. SHAIRI'S JOURNEY:

• addresses by chapter the progressive stages of transforming from victim to self-determining woman;
• walks you through Shairi's inner experience of struggle and deliverance through poetic journaling;
• offers 8 practical, guided exercises for self-healing, inner-development and spiritual connection;
• provides step-by-step rituals for finding balance in the midst of trauma;
• interweaves prayers of reflection, healing and gratitude for everyday living;
• provides inspiration and hope during the stages of transformation through Angel and Ancestral revelations; and
• offers abuse, assault and chemical dependency recovery resources.

"HOT FLASH"! A book for the women in your life over 40. If you know anyone suffering from hot flashes, they need this little book. It provides a wealth of helpful information. Written by the "Hot Flash Queen", it will give them new tools to combat the effects of this often ignored medical problem. If you've never experienced a real hot flash, it's all too easy to discount the severity of it, or just not take it seriously. It IS serious though! Serious enough to make us cry. But, what do you do to keep from crying? YOU LAUGH.

The best thing this book offers is the HUMOR found in the midst of the misery. And ladies, if we clamor loud enough, maybe somebody will start listening! We need a real answer to hot flashes. We want a safe alternative to hormones that really works. A good laugh, and some real help, is the best gift you could give that lady you love!

Master Colon has developed a unique method of teaching Tai Chi so that each practitioner is able to perform the exercises safely and efficiently for maximum benefit. Special attention has been given to the correct alignment of the knees, spine, shoulders and neck, which are areas of concern for many older adults. His concise approach combines his training as a physical therapist and his 40 years of Tai Chi experience to help re-establish healthy patterns of movement to make everyday tasks much easier to accomplish.

There are so many physical and mental benefits to be gained by learning the exercises in this book, which include: better balance, increased flexibility, greater blood and lymphatic circulation, deeper and easier breathing, superior muscle tone, and better memory, focus and concentration. And the best part is that the reader will start feeling some of these positive results right away after just a few practice sessions, because the explanations are very easy to follow.

This workout guide begins by discussing the principles and concepts of Tai Chi so that are important considerations.

Then the Meditation Section provides a method to calm and focus the mind before the more challenging exercises to follow. This technique emphasizes deep, diaphragmatic breathing, positive visualization, and physical postures that help to invigorate the body and mind.

This is followed by a series of Chi Kung (energy and breathing exercises) that increase general flexibility, circulation and flexibility in individual areas of your body. Many may choose to perform these exercises on a daily basis to maintain or improve their conditioning. The exercises are gentle enough that they may be done every day.

The next section is a detailed step-by-step description of the Wu Chi Tai Chi Form. This is the series of beautiful and graceful Tai Chi flowing exercises usually seen in demonstrations of Tai Chi. Clear and simple instructions, with accompanying photos, allows anyone to easily learn these movements and immediately begin to benefit from them. Extreme attention is given to providing safe instructions, breathing techniques and all required information without burdening the student with unnecessary detail.

At the end of the book, there are several sections that act as additional references about the benefits of the exercises, correct breathing techniques and advanced meditation and relaxation exercises. Information is provided to allow all readers to conveniently communicate with us to have questions answered.

For thousands of years, the very survival of mankind was dependent on one product, mother's milk. From this flowed the beliefs, mythologies and customs that make up the folklore of breast milk. It was necessary to create receipts and rituals to make the milk flow with ease and abundance. It was essential to find way to heal afflictions of the breasts and nipples.

It was important to establish when and how to wean the child, and then to stop the flow. The milk, of course, had to be protected from evil attacks.

The folklore deals not only with remedies for conditions of the breast milk, but also with the uses of mother's milk as medicine. It was used to treat everything from consumption and earaches to lack of vitality in adults.

The power of mother's milk is explored in fairy tales and modern short stories as well as metaphors. It reminds us too that we are mammals. At time, perhaps, in direct connection with animals.

Investigating the many facets of mother's milk throughout this book is an exciting journey from times long ago and places far away to right here and now.

This book will help middle-aged women reduce their chances of developing diseases and to understand menopause, osteoporosis, fatigue, depression, obesity, correct eating, injury prevention, and sex. It shows a detailed breast self-exam and GRALS (a complete exercise system), a way to reduce your risk of fall injuries.