The final chapters contain step-by-step procedures on how to accomplish this ourselves doing what Bays calls “Journey Work.” There are CD’s available online, and also licensed practitioners trained in facilitating Journey Work all around the world. If you need back-up, there’s plenty available.
If you’re serious about change and healing, this book is an absolute must read. And know this: once the last page in this book is turned, your journey is just beginning.
For more information go to www.thejourney.com
Book Review
The Female Brain
By Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Review by Katie Elliott
Estrogen, oxytocin, vasopressin: These are only three of many neuro-hormones that effect a woman's brain. Wouldn't it be nice to have a better idea of how our brains work since they play such a large role in our everday existence!? Thanks to Dr. Louann Brizendine's work and her new book The Female Brain, we are now able to reach a much greater understanding of what's going on up top.
Dr. Brizendine received her undergraduate degree in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, went to medical school at Yale, and trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center at Harvard Medical School. In 1994 she founded the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, which was one of the first clinics to study the states of the female brain and how neurochemistry and hormones effect moods.
Using scientific studies of the brain along with examples of case studies of her patients, Dr. Brizendine sheds light on what the female brain is up to during all the stages of life and development, from the moment the sex of the fetus is determined, to the stressful and confusing stages of female adolescence, to the hormones for finding a mate and falling in love, and even the female brain of the future.
This is important information because until recently, the woman's brain wasn't really studied. Writes Brizendine, "For much of the twentieth century, most scientists assumed that women were essentially small men, Next > 1 2 3 4 5 6
