Christiane Northrup Quotes

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

All health begins with how we perceive ourselves and our bodies.

One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.

Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body.

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

No matter what you’re feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you’re stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It’s a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable.

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

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.

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

All over the world today, many girls still get the idea that their bodies are somehow not as good as a boy's body. These girls - who later grow up to be women with girls of their own - get the message that they are weaker in spirit, not worth educating, somehow cursed because of their menstrual cycle, and so forth.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

Be joyful and experience pleasurable lives.

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.

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

Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.

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

Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

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.

I am tremendously moved anytime anyone gives birth to something from deep within themselves that is pure and authentic.

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.

Nothing happens randomly.

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

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.

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!

You don't need to deteriorate with advancing age.

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

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.

Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

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

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

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!

When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.

True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

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.

Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn't go in there alone at night

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.