“Emotional Medicine Rx is an eminently practical, accurate manual for creating health in mind, body, and spirit. I highly recommend it.”
Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“How wonderful to find a book that connects so intimately with readers, where the author is as deeply concerned about how her words might affect us as she is in delivering her message. She anticipates our hopes and fears, describing wisdom tools to ease our lives while gently prompting us to deepen our self-knowledge. Reading this book is an experience of love.”
Hal Zina Bennett, author of Write From the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity
“So much wisdom here, so much heart, so much knowledge. And so accessible and practical. This book is a treasure. Emotional Medicine Rx shows readers clearly and precisely how our emotions can be portals to well-being. I highly recommend it. Listen to the doctor and take your Emotional Medicine. It will help you have more happiness in your life.”
Diana Fosha, Ph.D., creator of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), author of The Transforming Power of Affect and coeditor of The Healing Power of Emotions: Affective Neuroscience, Development, and Clinical Practice
“This is a book that teaches us how to listen to our best inner guide and teaches us how to follow the compass of our deepest emotions into a fuller and more healthy life. You will not regret reading it.”
Sue Johnson, Ph.D, creator of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy ( EFT) and author of Hold me Tight: Seven conversations for a lifetime of love
“Emotional Medicine Rx is a guide for every person who wants to become more emotionally fluent. By embracing our feelings; honoring anger, fear and sadness as sacred, we allow ourselves to enter the depths of our humanness. Penelope Andrade teaches the reader profound techniques for both allowing and trusting feelings and moving through them quickly. Peace is right around the corner and Penelope’s guidance helps the reader move confidently in that direction. This book will serve all who read it and will help those who counsel or guide others to support their clients in unfolding in a healthy and full way.”
Dorothy Firman, Ed.D, co-author of Daughters and Mothers: Making it Work; Brace for Impact; Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul and author of the forthcoming, Engaging Life, Living Well with Chronic Illness
“Penelope Young Andrade is a wise, compassionate and deeply committed professional with a strong, compelling vision of emotional healing. She helps us see and experience how changing our innermost feelings will cause our thoughts and actions to follow suit and our lives to change for the better.This is an important book that can help people heal and grow in meaningful ways.”
Jeremy Geffen, MD, author of The Journey through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person
“This book needed to be written! Emotional Medicine Rx guides readers gently and surely to their deepest emotional truths. Penelope Andrade shows how to tap into rich personal resources during those times we find ourselves adrift, frightened, or overwhelmed. This book is a wakeup call reminding us our lives may depend on staying closely connected to ourselves. I particularly appreciated the author’s personal self-disclosure as she has truly walked her talk. Filled with life enhancing, life saving wisdom – this book is invaluable!”
Susan Warren Warshow LCSW, BCD, MFT, Founder DEFT (Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy) Institute, Faculty Southern California ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) and Certified IEDTA (International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association) Teacher/Supervisor
“I have read dozens of books in this genre and frankly didn’t expect to find anything new. But I was pleasantly surprised. The unique information in this book taught me when to let go–when to stop feeling the emotions–as well as how not to get wrapped up in the story, but rather, listen to my body. Furthermore, I was amazed how the author weaved in concepts from Nondualism, Advaita Vedanta teachings, Byron Katie, Vipassana and other traditions without any religious labels. A person could be an atheist or agnostic and enjoy and benefit from this book. It is loaded with tools, tips and insights that have helped me.”
Susan Schenck, LAc author of Beyond Broccoli: Creating a biologically balanced diet when a vegetarian diet doesn’t work.
“Emotional Medicine Rx is fantastic! It’s so accessible, on the mark, so clearly, simply written and boiled down. When I was half finished I thought the author must be done because she’d already put out so much relevant, well organized material. I can’t keep my single copy in my waiting room library long enough because people borrow it as soon as it returns. This book is clearly the culmination of a lifetime of experience. Bravo!”
Heather MacDuffie PhD, LCSW
“Emotional Medicine Rx is a wonderful book, beautifully written. The synthesis of the author’s many years of work as a therapist, meditation practitioner, and her commitment to deepening relationships translates into a profound understanding of emotions. In this book, she offers an elegant, simple and effective way of using attention to rapidly relieve emotional pain and restore well-being. I highly recommend Emotional Medicine.”
Nicolee McMahon, MFT, American Zen Teacher
“Emotional Medicine Rx has greatly helped my Science of Mind practice. I’ve learned to name and embody the physical sensations that accompany any emotional upsets. Further, I’ve learned to trust that experiencing my emotions this way leads to feeling really good. With this embodied and peaceful perspective my affirmative prayers are now more effective — Recognition and Unification steps flow effortlessly. My fondest wish is that all Science of Mind Practitioners have access to this healing book.”
Evelyn Eads, Human Resources Executive, Science of Mind Practitioner (RscP)
“Written from the heart, this book connects with many of the processes research is showing are helpful to human growth and the alleviation of human suffering. Facing the challenge of difficult feelings and thoughts is important for every human on the planet and this book is an aid in that process.”
Steven C. Hayes, University of Nevada, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
“I was engaged from the first sentence. Making and integrating all the personal examples from your own life connects me instantly to you. I feel as though you have written the book just for me.”
Doretta Winkelman, Director of Binational Education, San Diego Natural History Museum
“This book is a gift — a gift of love, experience and an enduring belief in the healing power of the mind/body. Thank you, Penelope, for your focus on the body and on the movement of emotions through the body. This is a wonderful contribution to the evolution of personal healing and psychotherapy.”
Barbara Thomson, Ph.D., MFT, CBT, Bioenergetic Analyst
“Reading this book was a pleasure. It is excellent — didactically sophisticated, scientifically informed and based on grounded experience. As your reader I trust you, the author, because while you are ‘selling’ me an extremely simple method for attaining well-being, it becomes clear that your concept of well-being is not a superficial happy-go-lucky one. Emotional Medicine offers peace and integrity in the face of difficult experiences, even facing one’s own process of dying.”
Margit Loemeda-Lutz, Dr. Dipl. Psych., author of Intelligente Emotionalität – vom Umgang mit unseren Gefühlen (Intelligent Emotionality — How We Deal with Our Emotions), Trainer for the International Institute and the Swiss Society for Bioenergetic Analysis and Therapy IIBA/SGBAT, and coeditor of Bioenergetic Analysis
“Penelope Andrade shows us the too-often-ignored approach to natural healing — our emotions. It’s time we pay attention to her words, and to this rich, information-filled source of living and healing naturally.”
Barry Vissell, MD and Joyce Vissell, RN, MA, authors of The Shared Heart and The Heart’s Wisdom
“Our original psychological staff at Sanoviv Medical Institute had the benefit of being trained by Penelope. The tools shared in this book are now used every day in our workwith clients, helping them recover a healthy relationship with their body and find theirinner wisdom as a way of improving well-being. Emotional Medicine is a natural andeffective path towards self discovery and healing that I recommend for everyone.”
Jonas G. Chong Curiel, Head of Psychology and Spirituality Programs, Sanoviv Medical Institute, Baja California, Mexico
“Penelope Young Andrade is a master of emotions. This book offers in-depth insight into dealing with the emotions that course through our daily lives. A must-read for those desiring to know how to live in harmony with themselves with a fulfilling sense of peace and equanimity.”
Jaqueline Lapa Sussman, M.A., author of Freedom From Failure: How to Discover the Secret Images that Can Bring Success in Love, Parenting, Career, and Physical Well Being and Images of Desire: A Return to Natural Sensuality
“Everyone can benefit from Penelope Young Andrade’s practical wisdom as she guides us on the path toward emotional healing and balance, nourished by our inner truth.”
Halé Sofia Schatz, author of If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit
“Emotional Medicine has been life-changing for so many of my clients and for me! For readers who already love their emotions, Penelope adds fresh insight into letting the body lead quickly back to bliss. For those who have not yet befriended their emotions, this book reveals in simple and practical detail just what a remarkable resource they are. Emotional Medicine Rx is highly recommended!”
Shana Stanberry Parker, Sc.D., psychologist and editor, Fearless Nest: Our Children as Our Greatest Teachers
“Emotional Medicine’s unique approach combines Penelope’s heartfelt personal experience, her 40-plus years of clinical experience along with scientific information to support her theory. As in Feldenkrais, readers discover how to cooperate rather than coerce what is happening in the present moment to restore functional living. Emotional Medicine Rx offers the reader numerous easy ways to practice healthy emotional expression, thus creating a healthy lifestyle.”
Donna Ray, MFT, Feldenkrais Trainer
“Emotional Medicine Rx is an intimate reminder to listen to the wisdom of our bodies. Penelope Young Andrade gently guides readers out of mental over-analysis and into a sacred relationship with their true self. The peace and healing that results is an absolute gift. Highly recommended.
Danea Horn, Author of Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Tools for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness
