Our Christmas Gift Guide Shopping for: Women would like to introduce you to a new Author Judith E. Pentz MD Page. I was sent a copy of her book in exchange for a spot in our Christmas Gift Guide Shopping for: Women.
Discover A Life-Changing Detoxification and Rejuvenation Therapy
Psychiatrist Judith E. Pentz, MD, travels to Nagpur, India, to study 5000-year-old Ayurvedic Panchakarma detoxification and rejuvenation therapy in a quest to provide enhanced holistic wellness treatment for her patients.
A change at the cellular level. Part travel memoir and part spiritual guide, Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your Soul is one woman’s transformative quest with Ayurvedic Panchakarma (a fivefold detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy, and other procedures) and the profound shifts that led to some sustainable, substantial life changes. Dissatisfied with a mainstream psychiatric practice, Dr. Pentz heads to India, where she undergoes an ancient, rejuvenating cleanse.
The tools and practices of Panchakarma. Dr. Pentz’s narrative offers a compassionate and compelling path for Western audiences and the Ayurveda-curious.
Complete with healing oils, Ayurvedic daily rituals, and yoga poses, she supplements her journey with tips about preventive lifestyle changes that promote sustainable well-being.
Inside, find definitions, quizzes and wisdom, as well as chapters like:
- Cellular Shift: the science behind Panchakarma and cellular change
- Food As Medicine: tips about one of the central tenets of Ayurveda, food is healing, and maintaining an Ayurvedic diet
- The Dish on Doshas: facts that illuminate concepts around the three doshas―vata, pitta, kapha―your constitutional and functional intelligence
If you have benefited from books like Ayurveda Beginner’s Guide, The Ayurvedic Self-Care Handbook, Body Thrive, or Ayurveda and Panchakarma, then Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your Soul should be your next read.
About Judith E. Pentz MD
For too long, integrative medicine has hovered at the edges of mainstream Western medicine, but what integrative psychiatrist Dr. Judith Eve Pentz brings us in Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul is a map that shows us all how we may integrate practices into the core of our contemporary lives. She’s got the science, and she’s got the soul.
As program director in the department of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, she supports psychiatric trainees to the University of Arizona’s integrative medicine online module, mentoring future psychiatrists integrative healing methods for those they are serving. She has practiced as a psychiatrist for twenty-eight years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is on the faculty at the University of New Mexico as an associate professor and attending child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She has often spoken about integrative health, including Ayurvedic healing in her presentations and written chapters for textbooks published in her field.
Yet what speaks the loudest on why she’s an authority on a panchakarma cleanse is how it has profoundly shifted her own life, something she only hoped was possible. She has personally experienced the cleanse and seen the power of it in the significant changes she has instituted in her life, her health, and her career, which continues to unfold.
By training, as a psychiatrist/medical doctor, Pentz has sought ways to have people deeply integrate their own healing at all levels of their being: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. In her private practice and her work with children, adolescents, and adults at UNM, she has introduced nutrition and nutriceuticals as alternatives or integrations with Western medicine. She now is sharing more of her wisdom with her writings and lecturing on teachings in her book. In her new work, she shares holistic and healing interventions to further support the journey to the soul.
This book is born of a profound need she has seen in her twenty-eight years of practice, what has motivated her to seek out speaking engagements on international panels; lead workshops and write both for an academic audience as well as the public; and write for publications such as Psychiatric Times and the Albuquerque Journal, as well as on her blog at drpentz.com. Too often, people suffer needlessly because the system in which they seek help is unaware of natural ways to create wholeness. Time and time again, she sees the value of this intervention even just for physical health, thus she seeks avenues to share about what panchakarma can do for those motivated to make changes in their lives in the most foundational ways.
Cleanse Your Body, Reveal Your Soul is Pentz’ first full-length book. In fall 2015, her book chapter, “Botanicals for Depression,” was published in a textbook about integrative therapies for depression in Integrative Therapies for Depression: Redefining Models for Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention (CRC Press,Taylor and Francis, 2015).
Find her at drpentz.com
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