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A biofeedback device such as the emWave from the Institute of HeartMath can help you learn how to get into the state called “cardiac coherence,” in which HRV (heart rate variability) is optimized. See
www.heartmath.org
.

An NMR lipid profile for cholesterol can only be obtained through LabCorp,
www.labcorp.com
, or LipoScience,
www.liposcience.com
.

You can learn more about home versions of the 25(OH)D test for vitamin D yourself at
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/testing-for-vitamin-d
. You can order a home test through ZRT Labs or New Century Diagnostic’s Home Health Testing website or City Assays in the United Kingdom.

Learn more about ancient Taoist exercises such as the Female Deer Exercise in Stephen T. Chang’s book
The Tao of Sexology: The Book of Infinite Wisdom
(San Francisco, CA: Tao Publishing, 1986).

You can buy pomegranate breast oil (for sending love to your breasts as you massage them) at
www.pomegranatebreastoil.com
.

If you want to find a practitioner who performs and interprets thermograms so that you can monitor your breasts regularly as part of your plan for loving self-care, visit
www.breastthermography.com
,
www.breastthermography.org
, or the websites of the International Academy of Clinical Thermology (
www.iact-org.org
) or the American College of Clinical Thermology (
www.thermologyonline.org
).

The Squatty Potty toilet stool for supporting a healthy pelvic floor can be found at
www.squattypotty.com
. You can learn more about toning the pelvic muscle group in a book by Kathryn Kassai, P.T., C.E.S., and Kim Perelli,
The Bathroom Key: Put an End to Incontinence
(New York: Demos Health, 2012,
www.demoshealth.com
).

I highly recommend USANA pharmaceutical-grade supplements and have been using them and recommending them for many years. I am also a distributor. For more information, go to
www.usana.com
.

Chapter 5

You can learn about Unity minister Jill Rogers’s Seven Sacred Steps workshops at
www.thesevensacredsteps.com
.

Eve Ensler, author of
The Vagina Monologues,
organized a global movement called One Billion Rising,
www.onebillionrising.org
, and creates events for celebrating the survivors of sexual abuse.

Information on the findings of the ACE study of adverse childhood experiences can be found at
www.acestudy.org
.

Declutter your life with the help of Marla Cilley, The Fly Lady (
www.flylady.net
), a woman who teaches millions how to overcome CHAOS (“can’t have anyone over syndrome”).

Chapter 6

I recommend the following books on women’s sexuality:

Jenny Wade,
Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil
(New York: Gallery Books, 2004).

Tami Lynn Kent,
Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body
(New York: Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2011).

Sheri Winston,
Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
(Kingston, NY: Mango Garden Press, 2009).

Barbara Hand Clow,
Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini, Astrology, and the Key Life Transitions
(Rochester, VT: Bear and Company, 2001).

Steve and Vera Bodansky,
Extended Massive Orgasm: How You Can Give and Receive Intense Sexual Pleasure,
2nd edition (Alameda, CA: Hunter House, 2013).

David Deida,
Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh,
2nd edition (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2005).

Mantak Chia and Rachel Carlton-Abrams, M.D.,
The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Sexual Secrets Every Woman Should Know
(New York: HarperOne, 2009).

I highly recommend a DVD called
A Guide to Your Orgasm,
produced by the Welcomed Consensus (
www.welcomed.com
).

Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts in New York City, run by Regena Thomashauer (
www.mamagenas.com
), is an incredible source for learning how to reconnect with your pelvic bowl and your sexuality. Check out her books
Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002) and
Mama Gena’s Owner’s and Operator’s Guide to Men
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).

Gina Ogden, Ph.D., a pioneering researcher whose ISIS study revealed new information about women’s sexuality, has written several books on the topic, including
Women Who Love Sex: Ordinary Women Describe Their Paths to Pleasure, Intimacy, and Ecstasy
(Boston, MA: Trumpeter Books, 2007). Her website is
www.expandingsextherapy.com
.

Betty Dodson, a pioneer in encouraging women’s self-pleasuring who is now in her 80s, has a marvelous website devoted to this topic at
www.dodsonandross.com
.

Student of tantric sex Layla Martin offers an effective and fun online course in femininity and sexuality on her website at
www.layla-martin.com
.

Women’s health physical therapist Tami Lynn Kent (
www.wildfeminine.com
) as well as Larry and Belinda Wurn (
www.clearpassage.com
), who developed the Wurn Technique and have trained many other physical therapists, report some incredible results with using manual therapy on women who find sex painful due to fascial scarring and lesions. Jennifer Mercier, M.D. (
www.drjennifermercier.com
), is also an expert in this area and has trained other practitioners in manual therapy for pelvic scarring. You can also find more information about women’s health physical therapists at
www.thebathroomkey.com
or
www.obgyn-physicaltherapy.com
.

My favorite essential oils that can be used for aromatherapy are Uttati oils from
www.gabrielleyoung.com
and Young Living Essential Oils from
www.youngliving.com
.

Chapter 7

Peter Calhoun and Astrid Ganz’s book
Last Hope on Earth
(Knoxville, TN: World Service Institute, 2013) offers energetic healing techniques including imprint removals.

Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., a nutritionist at Tufts University, and Jennifer Ackerman wrote
The Social Network Diet: Change Yourself, Change the World
(Campbell, CA: FastPencil, 2011), about how social networks affect our eating and exercising behaviors and what you can do to give and receive support for healthy lifestyle choices. Available from
http://premiere.fastpencil.com/social-network-diet
. Miriam Nelson’s website is
www.strongwomen.com
.

For more on energetic connections, read Robin Kelly, M.D.’s
The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells
(Fulton, CA: Elite Books/Energy Psychology Press, 2007).
www.humanantenna.com
.

Chapter 8

The most up-to-date way to test your cholesterol is the NMR lipid profile, which you can obtain through LabCorp,
www.labcorp.com
, or LipoScience,
www.liposcience.com
.

You can order many of your own lab tests through SaveOnLabs at
www.saveonlabs.com
. You can learn more about home versions of the 25(OH)D test for vitamin D yourself at
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/testing-for-vitamin-d
. You can order a home test through ZRT Labs or New Century Diagnostic’s Home Health Testing website or City Assays in the United Kingdom.

A good source for Paleo diet recipes is
www.fastpaleo.com
.

The best thyroid site I’ve found is Mary Shomon’s
http://thyroid.about.com
.

Everyone with a thyroid problem needs to know about iodine. Please read
Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can’t Live Without It,
5th edition, by David Brownstein, M.D. (West Bloomfield, MI: Medical Alternatives Press, 2014).

To overcome old blocks about food and weight, I recommend Jessica Ortner’s
The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss & Body Confidence: A Woman’s Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More
(Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2014). See her website too, at
www.TheTappingSolution.com
.

I also recommend
Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body
by Alexandra Jamieson (New York: Gallery Books, 2015) and
Pleasurable Weight Loss: The Secrets to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Loving Your Life Today
by Jena la Flamme (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2015). Or visit Jena la Flamme’s website,
www.PleasurableWeightLoss.com
.

Chapter 9

Bob Cooley’s Resistance Flexibility program is outlined in his book
The Genius of Flexibility: The Smart Way to Stretch and Strengthen Your Body
(New

York: Touchstone, 2005)
.
You can also go to his website to learn more:
www.thegeniusofflexibility.com
.

Information on John Barnes’s work can be found at
www.myofascialrelease.com
.

Information on myofascial release techniques such as those used by Larry and Belinda Wurn can be found at
www.clearpassage.com
.

You can learn more about Sprint 8 and its benefits at
http://fitness.mercola.com
.

Chapter 10

Llorraine Neithardt, an intuitive with a radio show called
Venus Unplugged,
designs shoes as an offering to Aphrodite. You can see some of her designs at
www.shoefineart.com
.

Chapter 11

Bob Fritchie, who wrote the marvelous book
Being at One with the Divine: Self-Healing with Divine Love
(Knoxville, TN: World Service Institute, 2013)
,
teaches the power of Divine Love to people all around the world and has spent decades documenting the healing power of this energy. You can learn more and buy his book at his website:
www.worldserviceinstitute.org
. I encourage you to participate in at least one of his webinars—they can be life-changing.

Lynne McTaggart (
www.lynnemctaggart.com
), like Bob Fritchie, has a large network that coordinates mass events for raising the vibration of the planet. She has written several books about energy connections, including
The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World
(New York: Atria Books, 2011).

The fact that we are beings of light—and that we, in fact, emit light—has been demonstrated by researcher Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., at his lab at the University of Arizona. (You can learn more at
www.drgaryschwartz.com
.)

Sera Beak’s
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story
(Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2013) and Meggan Watterson’s
Reveal: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked
(Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2013) are rich explorations of the relationship between spirituality, pleasure, and the divine feminine.

You can find affirmations by Catherine Ponder at
www.absolute1.net/catherine-ponder.html
.

ENDNOTES

Introduction

1
. “Centenarians Are the Fastest-Growing Age Segment: Number of 100-Year-Olds to Hit 6 Million by 2050,”
New York Daily News,
July 21, 2009.

2
. Sue Campbell, “What’s Your Plan If You Live to 100?”
Next Avenue,
May 27, 2014.
http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/whats-your-plan-if-you-live-100
.

3
. Mario E. Martinez, Hay House radio interview with Christiane Northrup, “Your Culture Is Stronger Than Your Genes,”
Flourish!,
November 6, 2013.

Chapter 1

1
. I heard this Abraham quote, “happy, healthy, dead,” in an Esther Hicks lecture many years ago, and it has stayed with me!

2
. HeLa cells used in scientific experiments are derived from one woman, Henrietta Lacks, who unknowingly made an incredible contribution to science in 1951 when a scientist took cells from a cancerous tumor that ultimately killed her. It was found that these cells could serve as stem cells from which new cells could be grown again and again without the original cells dying. Something was different about the cells in Ms. Lacks’s tumor that made them, in a sense, immortal—yet the “immortal” cells also killed her with cancer. Other research has connected telomerase, the enzyme that seems to repair telomeres, with cancer as well. There’s much research to be done in extending telomeres without causing cancer. One study shows that it’s possible to increase telomere length in mice, which leads to a reversal in the aging process. M. Jaskelioff et al, “Telomerase Reactivation Reverses Tissue Degeneration in Aged Telomerase-Deficient Mice.”
Nature
469 (January 6, 2011): 102–6.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7328/full/nature09603.html
.

3
. E. Epel et al, “Can Meditation Slow Rate of Cellular Aging? Cognitive Stress, Mindfulness, and Telomeres,”
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1172 (August 2009): 34–53.

4
. R. Davidson et al, “Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation,”
Psychosomatic Medicine
65, no. 4 (July/August 2003): 564–70.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12883106
.