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“I’ve learned that the beloved that I’ve been seeking outside is within me. All my grief and sorrow is a failure to connect with the divine in me. I am whole and complete. I have the ability to create heaven on earth.”
DR. CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP
She is a world renowned author, pioneer and visionary illuminating women all over the world to flourish with her health expertise and wisdom. She has more than 4.4 million books in print, in 24 languages. She has also hosted seven highly successful public-television specials, beginning in 1998. Her latest is based on the newly revised edition of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and first aired nationwide in June 2010.
She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The View, Rachael Ray, Good Morning America, 20/20, and The Dr. Oz Show. I especially admired her on a health documentary called “Hungry for Change“. It is truly an honor and a dream alike to have been given a chance to speak with such a beautiful soul, Dr. Christiane Northrup, today on Soulspeak.
Who is Dr. Christiane Northrup?
Dr. Christiane Northrup is a brand new version of herself. All or parts of me from my birth to age 4 went into hiding…
I am an OB Gyn, a visionary, a pioneer in wholeness and health.
I have created a new language of women’s health… I’m at a brand new beginning. I am a dancer, a goddess, a joyful being in addition to being a healer and doctor. My sense of childlike wonder and joy are very important to me now. But they are solidly routed in the reality of being at the bedside of women in the very throes of everything from death and pain to birth and joy. I know the human experience in all its glory, all its sorrows. I choose to dance anyway because doing so is part of the healing of the entire planet.
Is this something you saw yourself doing, even as a child?
No, absolutely not. I never thought I’d be a doctor.
I was drawn to the harp, to nature divas and ballerinas. It was an extraordinary foundation for me- very unlike the way medicine is taught and practiced– as though it’s separate from nature and energy and spirit.
You work a lot with women, tell me about your experience with men and their own healing.
The beauty of my experience with men is being able to understand the depth of their love and devotion. To see that the woundedness of women adversely affects the wholeness of men. That they will die for a devotion, for an idea…. The thing that keeps them going is to serve the goddess.
By being who I am and helping the women in men’s lives, I am helping to heal men.
Men want to be heroes, We as women can help uplift them and make them heroes.
It is time we know how powerful a woman is in a man’s life. If she stays steady to her own divinity, sexuality, a man can be elevated to his full stature, by a woman who believes in him.
We have a whole planet that is raped and wounded. The only way out is a path that includes delight and pleasure- as well as being willing to release the pain.
People ask each other “How are you fighting violence?” I’m not going to fight it, because what you fight gets bigger. You have to surrender to the joy and pleasure but first you have to grieve for what you have lost, grieve for what hasn’t been because at the end of it is, in the words of Buddhist nun Pema Chodron– A BIG BLUE SKY. All these near death experiences let us know the truth about who we really are. It is our nature to be childlike and joyful.
What have you learned from yourself lately?
I’ve learned that the beloved that I’ve been seeking outside is within me. All my grief and sorrow is a failure to connect with the divine in me. I am whole and complete. I have the ability to create heaven on earth.
I also learned that I love Argentine Tango. I surrender to that. I’ve learned to dance my own dance and simply let go of the what the mind tells me. Our mind is a bad neighborhood. I learned that God comes through us as us. It took me 45 years to know this.
I’ve also learned that we choose families that challenge us to see how God comes through us.
Tell me about “Hungry for Change”. What do you love most about this movie?
The filmmakers are an adorable and beautiful couple from Australia. What I love most about this movie is that it talks about the spiritual nature of the diet. That self love is the solution to the pain you have been carrying all your life. The fact that everyone in the movie had been either very ill or morbidly obese and lived to talk about it from a place of true healing.
Jon Gabriel, he was very inspiring to me. When he talked about being 400 pounds and losing all that excess weight. It was amazing. He reminds me of Archangel Gabriel. He really is an angel. People like Jon, it’s like they come here and take on these physical bodies and put on all that weight and then they realize that this is what they came here to do… heal, and transform their lives… And when someone like that transforms it’s just wonderful.
Any regrets?
My one regret is that I wish I had known about orgasmic pleasurable birth when I was giving birth to my children. I would still have walked out of the hospital the same day like I did with both births. I might even have had home births. I have no other regrets.
What is LOVE?
Love for me is a feeling in my chest and in my heart that makes my entire body uplifted and tingly. Right between weeping, and laughing. It is the substance that binds the universe together and it does not require anything. Love is unconditional.
Your ONE MESSAGE to the world.
You have the power of creation itself within your heart. You can trust your dreams. You can trust your desires. You can trust what you are naturally drawn to. Don’t let anyone let you think differently because they will try. For every test you survive you will get stronger. You are stronger.
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ABOUT DR. NORTHRUP
“I dedicated the first half of my life studying all that can go wrong with the female body—and learning how to fix it. I’m devoting the second half of my life to illuminating all that can go right”. – C.N.
Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a visionary pioneer and the world’s leading authority in the field of women’s health and wellness. Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of medicine that acknowledges the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Internationally known for her empowering approach to women’s health and wellness, Dr. Northrup teaches women how to thrive at every stage of life.
Following a career as a practicing physician in obstetrics and gynecology for over 25 years, Dr. Northrup has dedicated her life to inspiring women to flourish. She encourages women to create health on all levels by tuning into their inner wisdom.
“When we find the connection between our thoughts, beliefs, physical health, and life circumstances, we find that we are in the driver’s seat of our lives and can make profound changes. Nothing is more exhilarating or empowering.”
One can see that Dr. Northrup “walks her talk.” She put her own personal truth on paper in 1994, in her first book, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom (Bantam). This groundbreaking classic quickly became a New York Times bestseller and has been the veritable bible of women’s health for nearly two decades. With its raw facts and intriguing case histories, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom explains how to “create physical and emotional health and healing.”
Her second book, The Wisdom of Menopause (Bantam, 2001), has been embraced by women everywhere, including Oprah Winfrey, who sought Dr. Northrup’s wise words when she turned 50 and faced “The Big M.” In this New York Times bestseller, Dr. Northrup once again challenged convention with inspiring insights—the “change” is not a collection of symptoms to be “fixed,” but a mind/body revolution, which brings tremendous opportunity for happiness.
Dr. Northrup has more than 4.4 million books in print, in 24 languages. Mother-Daughter Wisdom, her third book (Bantam, 2005), was voted Amazon’s #1 book of the year in both parenting and mind/body health and was also nominated for a Quill Award. In her latest books, The Secret Pleasures of Menopause (Hay House, 2008) and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook (Hay House, 2009), Dr. Northrup outlines the crucial link between health and pleasure.
Dr. Northrup has also hosted seven highly successful public-television specials, beginning in 1998. Her latest is based on the newly revised edition of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and first aired nationwide in June 2010.
Dr. Northrup has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The View, Rachael Ray, Good Morning America, 20/20, and The Dr. Oz Show.
As a business owner, physician, former surgeon, mother, writer, and speaker, Dr. Northrup acknowledges our individual and collective capacity for growth, freedom, joy, and balance. When she’s not traveling, Dr. Northrup loves devoting her leisure time to dancing Argentine Tango, going to the movies, getting together with her daughters and friends, boating, and reading.
Dr. Northrup stays in touch with her many fans worldwide through her Internet radio show Flourish!, Facebook, Twitter, her monthly e-letter and her Web site.
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