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Summary of Moody Bitches 

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As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. Bitches are moody. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control. We have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stuffed away. They are a finely-tuned feedback system that, if heeded, can tell us how best to manage our lives. Yet, millions of American women are medicating away their emotions because our culture says that moodiness is a problem to be fixed. Dr. Julie Holland, a board-certified psychiatrist in New York City, knows there is a better way. She’s been sharing her frank and funny wisdom with her patients for years, and in “Moody Bitches”, Dr. Holland offers readers a guide to our bodies and our moodiness that includes insider information about the direct link between food and mood, an honest discussion about sex, and highly effective natural therapies that can help us press the reset button on our own bodies and minds.

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Moody Bitches is a rallying cry for a new way of living

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Today, women are exhausted from overworking. Our moods and libidos are at a rock-bottom low, our vital energies drained as we struggle to keep up with work, family, and hundreds of “friends” online. We blame ourselves for how bad we feel, thinking we should be able to handle it all. We evolved that way for good reasons; our hormonal oscillations are the basis for a sensitivity that allows us to be responsive to our environment. Our dynamism imparts flexibility and adaptability. Being fixed and rigid does not lend itself to survival. In nature, you adapt or you die.

Yet we have been told just the opposite. From a young age, we are taught that moodiness and all that comes with it, is a bad thing. We learn to apologize for our tears, to suppress our anger, and to fear being called hysterical. Over the course of women’s lives, the stresses and expectations of the modern world interfere with our health and hormones in ways big and small, and the result is the malaise so many women feel. Moody Bitches opens the playbook on how we can take hold of our moods and take hold of our lives.

By integrating timeless wisdom with today’s science, we can master our moods. If we can understand our own bodies, our naturally cycling hormones, and how modern medicines derange our exquisitely calibrated machines, then we can make informed choices about how to live better.

Our lives are out of sync with nature. The further away we get from what’s natural for us, the sicker we’re going to get. Our disconnection is our pathology. We need to get back in tune with our bodies and with the natural world around us. In our digital distraction we’ve lost a basic truth: fresh air, sunlight, and movement make us feel better. Daily cycles of light and dark will do more for our sleep than any pill, being sedentary is our biggest health hazard, and we miss a lot when our relationships become virtual. Health begins with understanding, and “Moody Bitches” aim is to demystify women’s inner lives to enable change.

Did you know? If we can understand our own bodies, our naturally cycling hormones, and how modern medicines derange our exquisitely calibrated machines, then we can make informed choices about how to live better.
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Too high serotonin, and you don’t care much about anything; too low and everything seems like a problem to be fixed

More women than ever before are taking psychiatric medications, creating a new normal that isn’t normal at all. It is at odds with our biology. Our brains are wired differently from men’s brains, and our hormones do make us moodier.
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Some days you feel like a rock star and some days you feel like a rock

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Falling in love is pharmacologically a bit like the combination of cocaine and heroin

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Inflammation is the key that changes everything

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Stop using food as a drug to soothe your anxieties

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Good sex will help you distress, lowers your blood pressure and stimulates your immune system

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Women are constantly under pressure to do more, but you need downtime

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