When Sleeping Beauty Wakes up: A Woman's Tale of Healing the Immune System and Awakening the Feminine

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: A PERSONAL HEALING JOURNEY. By going through a life & death process, the author uncovered a new path to a woman's feminine strength, & discovered a simple healing system. Her research with professional women presents the loss of true feminine experience in our culture, & how women can return to an inward presence in order to have stronger self-esteem, self-image & knowledge of the transforming feminine. Here is not only a literal story of a battle with a "Woman's disease," but also a metaphorical telling about the condition of many American women today, whose efforts toward healing are really attempts to reclaim their power in a subtly insidiously male-dominated culture...I believe this work is useful to anyone who suffers from or knows & loves a sufferer of CFIDS. It is also invaluable to any person who might see pieces of her own story in this account. The road to empowerment just may be, for many of us, learning to recognize that our bodies will tell us what our minds may not be willing to confess: that our entire being is dependent upon our autonomy & self-esteem. Laurie Wimmer, Executive Director, Oregon Commission on Women. SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES UP will be published October, 1992. 256pp, paper, ISBN 0-9632310-1-4, LC 92-093335, Health, Women's Studies, Feminism, $14.95.Lind-Kyle, Patricia is the author of 'When Sleeping Beauty Wakes up: A Woman's Tale of Healing the Immune System and Awakening the Feminine' with ISBN 9780963231017 and ISBN 0963231014.