S. Morningstar

Poorly written, edited, and performed

Revisado: 08-05-24

Editing makes all the difference! I just got diagnosed with Celiac disease and was looking for a good personal story to help me understand my experience and navigate this new world. This book is certainly a personal account, but very poorly organized and hard to understand- the author elaborated on things that needed no elaboration (she goes to great lengths to describe completely unrelated events that irritated her- one sentence is enough!) and jumped around in her experience making it hard to discern if she was sharing about her post-diagnosis experience or pre-diagnosis trials and errors, and it bounced between sounding casual and awkward with her mixture of cursing and lack of contractions. I ended up fast forwarding through half of it due to unnecessary and long-winded complaining with no real valuable information and didn’t bother finishing it. The person who read the book was equally awkward in her delivery, emphasizing words that didn’t need emphasis, making it sound sing-songy, overly dramatic, and just awkward all around. The information and personal experience that held any applicable value in this book could have been condensed into a magazine article. Waste of a credit.

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Good information to help the privileged heal.

Revisado: 02-15-17

Is there anything you would change about this book?

As an Indigenous women listening to this book there is one glaring omission: recognition that it is a privilege to have access to food security. Although I can currently afford access to organic fresh fruits, veggies, and grass fed/wild meats, it wasn't always this way. There is a whole segment of the population that struggles with poor health due to stress overload for a totally different reason- Ethnostress. Dr. Romm is a wise woman, but her lack of connecting this dot reminds me that her knowledge is based in her privilege and isn't intended for bodies of colour. I will use the program and think her information is super valuable, but will have to remind myself that although she is an expert in women's health and nutrition, she is certainly not an expert in social awareness or necessarily concerned with helping those on the margins fully heal from the causes of their SOS.

Would you be willing to try another book from Aviva Romm? Why or why not?

Yes. She's well-researched

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The reader was a bit robotic, and at times, it sounded like she was reading more than embodying Dr. Romm's voice.

Did The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution inspire you to do anything?

Stay on the current course I'm taking to heal from my own autoimmune issues.

Any additional comments?

As a healthcare practitioner that has taken an oath to help people heal, it is important to consider intersections of privilege such as race, class, gender, and ability in order to fully understand the root causes of illness. I recommend anyone who wants to use this book to deepen own healing practices consider taking some cultural competency/safety courses and work towards making the tools for healing accessible to all.

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