Okay, I didn't finish this. With the exception of the first few chapters, it's really more of a reference. I like the author's perspective on holistic health and the narratives she uses to illustrate how the emotional affects the physical, but there was a moment with a viking where she lost me.

I am also reading Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined Americaright now, and it made me view some of this info in a different light. The logic and culture of the holistic health movement, while helpful because it treats the person as a whole instead of a series of unconnected parts, can contribute to a kind of harmful psychology where people retain guilt for causing their own health problems with their minds or emotions.