Woman as Healer

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834828715
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

Author: L. Whaley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230295177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.

Healer

Author: Linda Windsor
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 0781404495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
Sixth-century Scotland—in the time of Arthur…. “The Gowrys’ seed shall divide your mighty house and bring a peace beyond the ken of your wicked soul.” Her mother’s dying prophecy to the chieftain Tarlach O’Byrne sentenced Brenna of Gowrys to twenty years of hiding. Twenty years of being hunted—by the O’Byrnes, who fear the prophecy, and by her kinsmen, who expect her to lead them against their oppressors. But Brenna is a trained and gifted healer, not a warrior queen. So she lives alone in the wilderness with only her pet wolf for company. When she rescues a man badly wounded from an ambush, she believes he may be the answer to her deep loneliness. Healing him comes as easy as loving him. But can their love overcome years of bitterness and greed…and bring peace and renewed faith to the shattered kingdom?

Woman Heal Thyself

Author: Jeanne Elizabeth Blum
Publisher: HarperElement
ISBN: 9781852309008
Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Based on the wisdom of ancient teachings, this book introduces a practical system for modern day life that aims to help women to regulate their menstrual cycles and take control of their bodies.

Healer and Witch

Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536232998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
After eleven young-adult novels, best-selling and award-winning author Nancy Werlin casts a brilliant new spell in a middle-grade historical fantasy for fans of classic fare. Nancy Werlin's first story for middle-grade readers tackles and transcends traditional fantasy tropes: can a young woman gifted with magic learn to manage her powers--and claim her strength--without violence? Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their medieval French village, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mere deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use magic to heal her mother's grief brooks tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves her village in search of a teacher. The journey subjects her to strange alliances, powerful temptations, danger, and deceit. In the end, there may be only one wise woman Sylvie can trust in a world that would define her limits: herself. Beautifully crafted, this quietly powerful work for younger readers assures a whole new audience for an established author.

The Book of the Cailleach

Author: Gearóid Ó Crualaoich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781859184127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This powerful analysis of the wise women healer from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of culture and community, collected and studied for many decades, are here translated and made available to the general reader for the first time. The figure of the wise woman, the hag, the Cailleach, or the Red Woman are part of an oral tradition which has its roots in pre-Christian Ireland. In the hands of Gearoid O Crualaich, these figures are subtly explored to reveal how they offered a complex understanding of the world, of human psychology and its predicaments: the thematic structure of the book brings to the fore universal themes such as death, marriage, childbirth, and healing, and invites the reader to see the contemporary relevance of the stories for themselves.

Mystical Healer

Author: Sujitha Arvind
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 194620434X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123

Book Description
As a river flows, meandering through many lands, Sujitha’s story flows fast and furiously through the pages and through our senses. The lush tale of Maya–Janwi, who has a chance for a wondrous new life and opportunity is what all women dream of. Written as a page turner, but never forgetting the supple spine of a woman’s world, this is a mature novel from a writer who has etched physical shapes as an architect and is now designing stories for our inner selves. Maya is a timid intelligent lady who has prioritized her family to her career as a herbologist. She is married to a rich man but has no freedom. She helps him find his freedom by shifting to the US. She loses her memory in a landslide accident in the Himalayas during a trek and then is rescued by an old couple and a doctor. Her accidental meeting of a nonagenarian tribal woman who imparts very special skills to her, combined with her knowledge of herbs and her inherited knowledge makes her a mystical healer. Does she fall in love with the doctor? Does she meet her family again? Read to discover the story of the metamorphosis of a woman where scars are beautiful tattoos. - Dr. Anita R. Ratnam Performer-Choreographer

Women Healers

Author: Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892815487
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Offering a provocative reconstruction of the history of women's healing practices, Brooke argues that the medieval image of the healer as witch was deliberately constructed by Church officials to discredit women's powers. In its place she provides a more accurate picture of these innovative, compassionate, and capable practitioners.

All Women Are Healers

Author: Diane Stein
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN: 0307783774
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
“By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women’s emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women’s lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition.”—from the Introduction

Sacred Woman

Author: Queen Afua
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307559513
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.