Integrative medical practitioner to the stars and Goop contributor Vicky Vlachonis offers a groundbreaking program to eliminate pain and look and feel your best every day.
In The Body Doesn’t Lie: The Three-Step Program to End Chronic Pain and Become Positively Radiant, Vicky Vlachonis focuses on pain release instead of on pain relief. Back problems, nightly headaches, tight shoulders, achy feet-all of us have nagging, daily pains that seem to get worse when our lives get most busy. While the immediate reaction to pain is to take short-term measures to make it go away, this does nothing to address the underlying cause. Vlachonis shows us how to locate the source of our pain, understand its origin and manifestation in the body, and then let it go for good, using a holistic approach that includes easy-to-implement approaches to diet, exercise, and emotional well-being.
Vlachonis’ proven and successful pain eradication program was developed over years working with a wide range of clients, from celebrities and CEOs to overworked ballerinas and working moms. The book includes a detailed meal plan with recipes, body maps to identify areas of pain and healing touch points, and step-by-step remedies for specific issues including fatigue, digestive problems, and depression. This groundbreaking approach uses pain as a tool—not the undefeatable enemy—to help you look and feel better immediately, and release your body from physical and emotional pain for good.
Vicky Vlachonis was born in Athens, Greece, and began her professional career as a European osteopath and musculoskeletal specialist treating dancers from the Royal Ballet and major theatrical productions including Cats and The Lion King. After working in London's Hale Clinic and the Integrated Medical Centre, she established her own practice in 2001. Today, Vlachonis is on the advisory board of UCLA Health Division of Digestive Diseases and Women's Health magazine. She is also a contributor to Goop. Vlachonis lives with her family and practices in Beverly Hills, California.
Table of Contents
Foreword Gwyneth Paltrow ix
Introduction xiii
Part 1 The Power of Positive Feedback
1 What is Pain? 3
2 Living in the Positive 39
3 How the Positive Feedback Program Works 51
Part 2 The Positive Feedback Program
4 Week 1 Reflect 71
5 Week 2 Release 115
6 Week 3 Radiate 175
Part 3 The Positive Feedback Tools
7 The Positive Feedback Meal Plan 211
8 The Positive Feedback Recipes 223
9 The Positive Feedback Remedies 243
Appendix A The Positive Feedback Questionnaire 259
Appendix B The Positive Feedback Resources 265
Appendix C The Positive Feedback Shopping List 281
