Cherish The Girls, A Well-Rounded Approach to Breast Health and Wellness

Cherish the Girls: A Well-Rounded Approach to Your Breast Health offers an unconventional look at the controversial subject of breast care. The author, a nurse who studied the emotional aspects of health while obtaining her Masters in Community Mental Health Nursing degree, has a doctorate in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. She has long familiarity with the promises and limitations of conventional medical care and the intimidation women experience when they choose not to accept standard treatments without questioning them. She also understands different healing modalities and has used acupressure as an intervention in her research on women’s menstrual cramps. Cherish the Girls reflects Lynn’s mission to support women as they explore traditional and nontraditional possibilities involving breast health, wellness, and healing. To do this, she provides perspective on published and often-cited statistics that make breast disease look practically inevitable. And she provides a behind-the-scenes look at powerful but not widely known care techniques, some of which have spanned centuries – offering information women can use immediately. Whether you consider these approaches complementary, alternative, or just plain common sense, Cherish the Girls will inspire each reader to be a smarter consumer and work better with healthcare providers. It shows how to build a healthy belief system and manage the fear or worry that so many women have about the risk of breast disease. Lynn discusses ways women can learn to accept and like their breasts (many women don’t!), so they can harness their self-acceptance to improve their health. Readers will learn the latest about breastfeeding, foods that nourish and heal, simple ways to have a healthier lifestyle, scans, how alcohol affects breast health, and how to choose healthcare providers who will serve them best. Cherish the Girls confronts the fear of a breast-cancer diagnosis directly: if a woman does experience that shock, she is better off if she already has some familiarity with the stages of the disease, what they mean, how conventional care handles them, and what kinds of treatment modalities are not part of typical medical care – including why some of those options cannot even be offered by some providers. Cherish the Girls supports the right of women to have as much information as they want, from as many different perspectives as they choose, and to be supported in whatever decisions they make. There is no one road to breast health: women have the right to decide how they will make the journey. Cherish the Girls will make a difference in women’s lives and in the lives of those who love them.