Your Body Speaks Your Mind: Book Review
Your Body Speaks Your Mind- Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages that Underlie Illness. Deb Shapiro (2006) Boulder CO, Sounds True Inc.
What do our symptoms and physical problems tell us about ourselves? In this book you will learn how the body speaks to us. Deb Shapiro helps us learn the language that the body speaks. She provides a thorough discussion about some common physical symptoms and illnesses and suggests general and specific underlying psyco-emotional and spiritual issues. She explains how knowing the body’s language can help increase our potential for healing. ” By learning the body’s language of symptoms you will soon discover that there is an extraordinarily intimate two-way communication going on that affects both your physical state and your mental and emotional health.” Deb Shapiro.
In this book, Deb Shapiro helps us initiate this communication, decode and understand the information the body is constantly sending out. The book is well organized and easy to read with straight forward explanations about the etiology of the illness and brief reviews of the anatomy and physiology of the physical body systems involved. A CD with guided visualization practices is also included. I highly recommend this book particularly if you work with clients who suffer from chronic illnesses.
Michele Bourgeois R.N. M.Ed. BHSP
CHNA Secretary
