Many Hands: New England's Magazine for Holistic Health
The benefits of 'Clean Food' Terry Walters shows the way to eat locally and stay healthy
Terry Walters has relied on a lifetime passion for cooking to provide nutritional advice in her book, "Clean Food."
I find that when I put my intention out into the world, I always get back what I need. It's an added perk if I want it, says Terry Walters. She exudes calm despite a busy life as a holistic health counselor, cooking instructor, and mom. Now, Walters adds being an author to her resume with the release of her first healthy lifestyle cookbook, "Clean Food."
Ellen Weisberg: In her own words Acupuncture helps medical researcher overcome disease and find her voice
Ellen Weisberg, a medical researcher and author, is the subject of this edition's InnerView.
Ellen Weisberg had achieved an incredible balance in her life: An instructor at Harvard Medical School who also performs leukemia research at the Dan Farber Cancer Institute, she also enjoyed writing and illustrating, and even worked as a weather broadcaster for Hometown Forecast Services in Nashua, N.H., where she lives. But the onset of dystonia, an illness similar to Parkinson's disease, threatened to turn her world upside down.
The Vitamin Angel' Howard Schiffer targets child disease worldwide
Howard Schiffer
Howard Schiffer has been involved with nutrition for more than 30 years. He helped develop and sell a number of health food items that have proved popular over the years - including Dr. Atkins Diet Shake, Larry North's Slim Down Bar, Susan Powter's Take Five vitamins and Balance Bars.
But his life took a turn in 1994, when Southern California was struck by the powerful Northridge earthquake. Schiffer recognized a need to get basic nutrition to the quake's most serious victims, and organized his colleagues in the nutrition industry in an effort to distribute vitamin supplements.
Jan Frazier: When fear falls away
Jan Frazier
We regularly receive copies of pre-publication editions of forthcoming books for our perusal and possible recommendation to you. We try to be good about giving each a reasonably thorough examination before deciding whether or not it's something in which you'd be interested.
On the wings of a songbird - Robin Lane uses music to help victims of abuse
Robin Lane
Singer/songwriter Robin Lane has found a new venue for her considerable talents. She is using music therapy to help victims of abuse find their own voices. Lane has performed with such artists as Neil Young, but is perhaps best known for her own band, Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, a Boston-based group that gained a strong following in the early '80s. Having moved to western Massachusetts several years ago, she continues to perform. But more recently, her strong, soothing voice has graced the halls of the Turners Falls Women's Resource Center, where she conducts 16-week musical therapy workshops for abuse victims.
Denise Roy, Using 'Momfulness' to nurture families and spread peace
Denise Roy
Denise Roy somehow manages to do it all: In addition to being the mother of four children and a foster daughter from Iran, she is an author, inspirational speaker, and licensed marriage and family therapist. She also is the founder of FamilySpirit, a national organization that offers spiritual and emotional support to families. Roy is the author of the acclaimed book, ''My Monastery is a Minivan: 35 Stories from a Real Life,'' which was published in 2001. Her next book, ''Momfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness, Compassion, and Grace,'' will arrive in bookstores in March.
Dr. Christiane - Northrup, Empowering women to take - control of their health
PHOTO BY KATE MOLLER
Dr. Christiane Northrup (www.drnorthrup.com) is the author of the best-selling book ''Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom.'' She encourages women to become stronger advocates for themselves when dealing with health issues.
Dr. Christiane Northrup is a writer and advocate of empowering women to take control of their health. Her 1994 breakthrough book, ''Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom,'' was a New York Times bestseller that was published in 16 languages. She subsequently wrote ''The Wisdom of Menopause'' and ''Mother-Daughter Wisdom.'' Her work has been featured on a number of television shows, including ''Oprah'' and ''The View,'' and she maintains a Web site called ''Empowering Women's Wisdom,'' which can be found at www.drnorthrup.com.
Amy Sophia Marashinsky - The Devine Feminine
Amy Sophia Marashinsky
Amy Sophia Marashinky is a writer living in Shutesbury whose latest work is a combined book and card set titled ''Oracle of the Grail Code.'' The book explores the concept of the Goddess; the cards, in turn, reflect qualities of the Divine Feminine and allow readers to learn more about their own spirituality. The author has written a number of books about the Goddess, a concept popularized more recently by Dan Brown's ''The DaVinci Code.'' She has also produced a cassette featuring conga trance drumming and performs relationship counseling. You can visit Amy Sophia Marashinsky on the Web at www.amysophia.com or email her at info@amysophia.com.
Pierre Zimmerman, A survivor's story
Pierre Zimmerman
In an eerie coincidence, as I was typing my notes from this month's Innerview with Pierre Zimmerman into the computer, I received an e-mail from an acquaintance of mine who bravely shared the news that he had been diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer - similar to the diagnosis that had threatened to end Pierre's life prematurely and the principal subject of this month's Innerview. Because of what I had learned from Pierre and also because of what I had learned about Pierre himself, I immediately picked up the phone and asked him for his help.
I started the Innerview by asking Pierre not about the first signs, but about the moment when he knew that something was seriously wrong.
Polly Baumer, Long-time publisher-editor of Many Hands talks about her journey with the magazine, her experience with holistic health, and her next projects.
POLLY BAUMER
Paris Finley: Here you are, Polly Baumer, sitting on the other side of an Innerview. Tell us, how did it all begin for you, Many Hands?
Polly: It's such a great story. It actually started in Washington, DC, where I was working for the Institute of Congressional Fellowships. I met a medium there, a remarkable woman.
Now remember, this was back in the late seventies, when ''body, mind and spirit'' wasn't the catch phrase it is today.... Because of her, I became very interested in the spiritual side of people's lives. Before that, I had been doing largely public relations kinds of work around the Northampton (Mass.) area. I had worked for Smith College. But I was really interested in writing. It's hard to find employment as a writer, though, so that's how I ended up doing public relations.
I was aware of Many Hands because I lived in the area, and when I started thinking about my desire to write and my interest in this medium from Washington, it all came together. When I returned from Washington, I actually approached Jeff and Diane (Krauth) who owned Beyond Words Bookshop (in Northampton) and had started Many Hands as a kind of newsletter - an adjunct, really-to their business. I said, ''I want to be your editor.'' They said, ''We already have an editor,'' and they did, but shortly after, the position opened up and I jumped at it.
Interview with Dr. Judith Orloff
MH: Would you say something about your first book, Second Sight, and then something about how that led to this current book, Intuitive Healing?
JO: I'm a psychiatrist and an intuitive. What that means is that I use all the traditional psychiatry plus I incorporate intuitive impressions and intuitive healing into my work, and spirituality-so it's an integrative form of treating patients. It's not just traditional, but it's using everything we have that's good and that can help people. When I wrote my first book, Second Sight, it was about my personal journey and struggles coming to terms with my intuitive abilities.
Interview with Dr. Andrew Weil: Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
One of the most important leaders in the field of health, world-famous author and physician Dr. Andrew Weil has seen countless people heal themselves through alternative therapies and traditional medicine. Through his best-selling books and popular internet site, Dr. Weil has long espoused the role of guided meditation and proper breathing in healing. His new book, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, delivers a program for accessing the body's own natural healing power.
Interview with Kenny Kingston: The Psychic's Psychic
Kenny Kingston, America's leading psychic to the stars has been
wowing audiences
for decades.
A spiritualist medium and expert in the field of psychic phenomena, Kingston has given
psychic
messages and readings to celebrities from all over the world including Marilyn Monroe,
John
Wayne, the Duchess of Windsor and even presidents Eisenhower and Truman. Born to the
seven daughter of a seventh daughter Kingston's psychic life began with tea readings. His
remarkable clairvoyance has catapulted him into the spotlight with books, infomercials and
all the
trappings of fame, but behind it all is a sweet spirit.
Interview with Deepak Chopra
The goal of the path is to transform your awareness from separation to unity. In unity we perceive only love, express only love, are only love.
- Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love
Interview with Caitlin Adair
Authentic Movement sets up a much-needed dialogue between conscious and unconscious, mind and body, intention and motivation that short-circuits our ingrained cultural habits of censure.