The Headache Healer’s Handbook: A Holistic, Hands-On Somatic Self-Care Program for Headache and Migraine Relief and Prevention

by Jan Mundo, Alexander Mauskop (Foreword)

Jan Mundo’s mind-body program teaches headache and migraine sufferers how to relieve and prevent their symptoms naturally — without drugs and their side effects. Here she shares her powerful personalized, comprehensive program for the first time. In step-by-step instructions, she helps readers discover and prevent the triggers that perpetuate their headaches — and stop their pain on the spot with her unique hands-on therapy. In a caring and compassionate voice, she makes her techniques accessible to both occasional headache sufferers and those who have long felt misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Brimming with inspirational narratives, questionnaires, guidelines, tracking tools, and author-illustrated instructions, The Headache Healer’s Handbook answers the headache sufferer’s plea for help and offers hope for a headache-free future.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

Published May 8, 2018

About the author

Jan Mundo didn’t plan to become a headache healer, but in 1970 she learned to relieve headaches with her hands. From then on, everyone gravitated to Jan when they were suffering, and she would stop their pain. In The Headache Healer’s Handbook, which she wrote and illustrated, Jan shares her comprehensive mind-body self-care pain relief and prevention program for the first time. As one of her clients expressed, “After thirty years of struggle, I feel as if I have a new lease on life.”

A certified Master Somatic Coach and massage therapist with advanced training in multiple modalities, she sees private clients and holds programs at medical centers, universities, corporations, and conferences.

Her writing is also published in the anthology Being Human at Work, Massage Magazine, Massage and Bodywork Magazine, Journal Cephalalgia, Spiritual Midwifery, and The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (contributing editor).

Reviews

[Ness · Rating 3 out of 5]

SF Library - 3 stars

This book had some great info about possible triggers (eg environmental, dietary) and the key is to keep a headache diary to help gain insight. This was a good introduction if you are new to headache research but I have gained a lot of knowledge over the years so this wasn't that beneficial to me. The book referenced many others studies in the field. I didn't realise I was so near the end of the book at 76% complete, the last 20% was the reference list!

I found that I had already employed some of the techniques talked about in this book.

The Mundo Method to relieve headaches using hand therapy was interesting and the only way to know if it works for you is to test it out for yourself.

[Heydi Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn’t find any new information or strategies in this book that aren’t in the many other headache guides. There is a test though in this one that’s worth taking. While it’s not going to tell you anything you don’t already know, you might want to take it to your doctor so he can have have a clearer understanding of what’s going on.