By Dr Carol Head
An invitation to become an active participant in your own health and wellbeing — connecting body, emotions, intuition and spirit on a journey back to wholeness.
Available now as ebook and paperback.
What if your body already knew the answers?
How to Heal Yourself invites you, in practical and compassionate ways, to become an active participant in your health and wellbeing. You’ll learn how to listen to your body, trust your own wisdom, and return to wholeness.
With over forty years’ experience as a doctor, and lived experience of serious mental health challenges, Dr Carol Head has discovered that real healing is complex. It comes from understanding the deep connections between your thoughts, intuition, emotions, body and spirit — as well as from restoring your natural connection with the Earth and your community.
Dr Head combines her personal story of psychosis with her ideas about holistic medicine to guide you on a journey of self-discovery and transformation.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognise the spiritual roots of physical symptoms
- Work with your body’s natural healing ability
- Reconnect with your emotions and intuition
- Feel more empowered by your inner guidance
- Transform your connection with nature
What’s inside
A journey through mind, body and spirit
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 — A Puff of Madness
- Chapter 2 — A Paradigm Shift
- Chapter 3 — Responsibility for Your Own Health
- Chapter 4 — Pay Attention
- Chapter 5 — Pay Attention to Your Intuition
- Chapter 6 — Pay Attention to Your Emotions
- Chapter 7 — Pay Attention to Your Thinking
- Chapter 8 — Pay Attention to Your Body
- Chapter 9 — Spirit
- Chapter 10 — Nurture Your Connections
- Chapter 11 — Another Puff
- Chapter 12 — Finding Your Purpose
- Chapter 13 — Plant Medicine and Earth Healing
- Chapter 14 — Path of the Soul, a New Paradigm
- Conclusion
Testimonials
This thought-provoking book, written by a GP, shows how wellbeing can be improved by paying attention to one’s body and inner self, as well as relationships and all parts of life. It’s inspiring to read of the author’s own life-changing experiences and how going beyond just the Western medical paradigm led to healing. The book is a helpful guide to things we can do to look after our mental and physical health. – Diana
This is a wonderful book on healing yourself, with tools to help from the authors personal experiences of overcoming their health challenges. A very honest and open account of the struggles and challenges along the way. – Mel
About the author
Dr Carol Head
Dr Carol Head is a holistic doctor and author with more than forty years’ experience helping patients improve their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Drawing on both her professional background and her personal healing journey, she offers a grounded, heart-centred approach to self-healing and personal transformation.
Her unique perspective — shaped by decades of clinical practice and her own lived experience of serious mental health challenges — brings both credibility and deep compassion to everything she writes.
Ready to heal?
Available as an ebook and paperback.
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Holistic Medicine: Beyond the Physical
Dr Carol Head looks beyond the physical to explain how both spiritual and physical aspects make up the whole person — and how understanding this can transform the way you look at life and illness.
Tools for Transformation
Continuing the journey, this practical book outlines ways to live a more holistic life — paying attention to your emotions, thoughts, intuition, passions, and the signs and synchronicities that shape your path.
