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Innovative books on the future of mindbody health, preventive self-care, and somatic therapy
In my publications, I bring the genres of feminist critical theory together with body psychology and self-help for a new spin on the mindbody connection and how our understanding of it is changing fundamental principles in education, therapy and medicine. My writing style is sensory, leveraging body metaphor to start emotionally honest and critically astute conversations with readers about what it will take to become sustainable humans, tackling the problems of embodiment challenging postindustrial societies and the postmodern culture of ill health they are manufacturing. A former academic turned holistic healer, I have learned through my own healing crises that cognitive critique is not enough to heal what ails us. What is required is more emotional honesty, deeper understanding of pragmatic remedies easily within reach, and the capacity to adapt by taking personal and collective responsibility to change from within. As an author, my purpose is to help readers embrace the emotional, metabolic, biologic and physiologic empowerment of conscious embodiment.
Camilla Griggers, PhD practices somatic therapy and holistic health consulting in sunny Santa Monica, California.
CAMILLA GRIGGERS
A BOOK FOR CHANGE
For those who like to go fast, who need to go faster, or who have no time to waste
If you like fasting, and/or you’re interested in somatic therapy, you’ll love Fast Therapy’s somatic psychology approach to fasting to optimize personal transformation and produce dramatic results. Fast Therapy provides instructions for 10 days of nutritional liquid fasting and combines it with instructions for 10 days of guided somatic self-therapy sessions to sync body, mind and emotions within the fasting experience. During fasting, the veil is lifted on the cover stories we tell to protect us from the truth of our own consumption (what we take in) and the waste it creates in our lives. The fast cleansing and detox instigated by fasting therapy triggers deep systemic healing from the inside-out for results that are palpable, visible and feel good immediately.
Take a break from eating to cleanse & restore
Reset your vagal tone to transform stress to rest
Free yourself from attachments to consumption
Touch defense mechanisms blocking change
Purge toxic waste and negative thoughts
Release blocked emotions and trauma memories
Inside the book
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
When you practice observing yourself with your eyes wide open, without judgment and without projection, you become aware of yourself as you are, and you get a fast pass to self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is accepting ‘what is’ about yourself, including what you see when you look at yourself naked in a mirror, but also what you sense about yourself when you close your eyes to glance inward. If you can observe your own thoughts, feelings, beliefs, behaviors, attitudes and physical state of being, then those aspects of you that you can observe are not your Observing Self. Your Observing Self sees all of it and remains unchanging over time. So why identify with those aspects of yourself that are changing?
When experiencing pain and suffering in any given moment, it’s even more painful to tell yourself that you are an unloved person, or unlovable person, or an angry person, or insecure person, or a sick person, or a depressed person, or an addict. Whatever it may be. Those thoughts are all judgements, and they feel heavy and disappointing. Soon enough you start thinking of yourself and your situation negatively.
However, it’s easy to accept that you have a trauma trigger, or an addictive habit, or faulty logic, or an outdated belief system, or a sick gut, or an attachment to behaviors that are illness causing, or an unmet need. Maybe you even have symptoms that get you a medical diagnosis—a physical sign of your bodymind distress. It’s critical to discern that the symptoms and diagnosis aren’t you either. They are a part of you, indeed a very important part of you, but they aren’t ‘You.’
A BOOK TO SMILE ABOUT
A CONSUMER GUIDE TO HOLISTIC DENTISTRY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
The mouthbody connection has changed conventional dentistry and its materials, tools and treatments. As a consumer, you have a choice about which kind of dentistry you want—the old conventional dentistry that pretends your mouth and your body are separate when they’re not, or the new oral-systemic dentistry that treats your mouth and body as connected because they are. This book makes sure you are informed about that choice before you sit in a dentist’s chair, or put your child in one. Mouthbody Healthcare explains 6 top dental problems that can jeopardize your systemic health or the health of loved ones. It shows how oral-systemic treatments and mouthbody self-care reduce the risk of scoliosis, diabetes, chronic infection, autoimmune disease, heart attack/stroke, cancer and dementia. Learn how to prevent and treat:
Recurrent tooth decay
Gum disease
Wisdom teeth extraction
Root canals
Mercury amalgam dental fillings
TMJ, chronic neck pain and misaligned teeth
Inside the book
The Problem: Separating Our Mouth from Our Body and Dentistry from General Medicine
Once you understand the connection between your mouth and the rest of your body, it’s easy to see the correlations between oral health and a wide range of chronic conditions that are challenging so many people today. The reason is because your mouth isn’t separate from your body! That biological and physiological reality is obvious yet easy to forget in the United States where a profit-driven healthcare system treats and bills your mouth and body separately, requiring you to have two different health insurance plans and practitioners—one for dentistry to treat your mouth and one for medicine to treat the rest of you. And to make the situation even worse, those two separate practitioners who engage those two separate insurance plans—your dentist and your doctor—don’t necessarily communicate with each other about your health or treatments.
What an inefficient and costly way to practice dentistry and medicine!
MOUTHBODY HEALTHCARE teaches you to put your body where your mouth is, providing a quick guide to minimally-invasive oral-systemic dentistry including its practices, materials and treatments. The book then explains 6 common dental problems facing millions of Americans—poor nutrition causing cavities, gum disease, mercury amalgam fillings, wisdom teeth extractions, root canals, and orthodontics for misaligned teeth and jaws.
This prevention-oriented book was written to help you keep your teeth in your mouth into happy and healthy old age. It is an invaluable resource for everyone who values holistic health, including parents making dental choices for their children’s lifelong wellbeing.
Why Teens Shoot
Prevention and Recovery
No child is born a school shooter
Teens at risk of violence are in a developmental crisis that is preventable. Learn how.
