Christiane Northrup Quotes - Page 3

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

You have far more power to heal and be healthy than you ever dreamed possible. Your health is not outside of you. And you don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

I want women and girls everywhere to know - deep in their bone marrow - that girls are born special, whole, and perfect, and nothing can alter that.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet.

Nothing happens randomly.

What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally?

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not have the words or the experience to teach me about the miraculous cycle in my body - the cycle that is responsible for all human life on our planet and connects us to the moon and the tides. Nor did she have the words to teach me about the gift of sensual pleasure that is the birthright of all girls. If she had, my life surely would have been different. For one, I probably would not have suffered from devastating menstrual cramps for decades.

We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.

A woman's body image is absolutely paramount to her health.

As a physician who knows the importance of body image to our overall health, I wanted to have a way to inspire women to love their bodies no matter what size or shape they are. This is possible!!! And I know EXACTLY how to do this because I've done it myself and I've helped thousands of others to do the same thing. It's women's health at its most fundamental level!

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always be known to our intellects. Nothing happens randomly. And at the same time, we have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

Your health is not outside of you.

Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with.

Those who think of themselves as healthy are indeed healthy - no matter what is really going on with their bodies.

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.

The body creates health daily. It is inherently self-healing.

natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.