Mother, Heal My Self: An Intergenerational Healing Journey Between Two Worlds

By JoEllen Goertz Koerner

Book Overview

Mother, Heal My Self is a stirring account of how ceremonies of the Lakota Sioux tribe helped a nursing leader heal her daughter heal (and herSelf) after Western medicine had failed. More than an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972509801
• ISBN13: 9780972509800
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Crestport Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Mother, Heal My My Self

This outstanding book should push back the horizon for every nurse dealing with persons of differing faiths, healing modalities and cultures. It may help to eliminate bias and lack of information regarding self healing. It should be useful to both the healing professions as well as the general public. I caution the reader against drawing any personal conclusions about the author's content until the entire book has been read for the content is a complicated mix of biography and theory.

Powerful

This is a great book and a powerful message. It is a must read for everyone associated with health care.

A True Nurse's Story

This book is a wonderful exploration of intergenerational caring and the power of the mother daughter relationship. Willing to do anything to save the life of her daughter, the author, who is herself a well known registered nurse, explores the depths of native american medicine and its healing powers. This is a wonderful book, I have given it as a gift to all the important women in my life.

Mother, Heal Myself;

This work is a fascinating, compelling read. A personal exploration of familial generational issues around pregnancy, childbirth and maternal death presents a disturbing pattern. When the writer's daughter has multiple physical problems during her pregnancies and childbirth, the familial archetype raises its ugly head. Struggling to find an approach which would interrupt the disturbing historical family pattern in pregnancy, childbirth and maternal death, becomes a complex journey for mother and daughter. When the daughter begins to experience the troubling symptoms, so prevalent in this family, the author, finds the interventions of the scientific community are ineffective. As the journey unfolds the disturbing model from the intergenerational history becomes the compelling force to seek support from traditional healing. Here the mother and daughter experience caring, sympathetic and knowledgeable support in traditinal healing practices. Written in a clear and concise manner this wrok describes the trial of a mother and daughter as the family pattern of maternal death is confronted. Likewise, the tension and support of traditional and scientific medicine are shared from both personal and family perspectives.

A Work of Courage

JoEllen Koerner's work is a must read for all those who seek to understand life, family, and intergenerational issues from a unique and vital perspective. The story of JoEllen and her daughter set within the context of the generational history, and the alternative healing work of the Native Americans is compelling. I have read it twice and will read it again. I would also recommend this book to people in healthcare that are not satisfied with just the medical model of care. Fascinating concepts to consider.