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. Step-by-step actions that teach readers to stop their headaches once and for all - without drugs and their side effects Jan Mundo, CMSC, CMT, has held headache programs at medical centers, universities, and corporations including Kaiser Permanente, Stanford University, and Apple. She is a certified Master Somatic Coach and massage therapist with advanced training in multiple healing modalities. She lives in New York City. Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (or Preface and Introduction)
Part One. Entering In
Chapter 1. Putting Relief In Your Hands
Chapter 2. What's Your Headache Type?
Chapter 3. Your Personal Headache Profile
Chapter 4. The Mind–Body-Headache Connection
Part Two. Handling Headache Triggers
Chapter 5. The Chinese Menu Theory
Chapter 6. Dietary Triggers
Chapter 7. Environmental, Lifestyle, and Physical Triggers
Chapter 8. Medication and Hormonal Triggers
Chapter 9. Diet for Migraine Prevention
Chapter 10. Tracking Your Triggers
Part Three. Creating Balance Through Awareness
Chapter 11. Breathing In, Breathing Out
Chapter 12. Being Still: Mindfulness and Headaches
Chapter 13. Posture, Ergonomics, and Sleep
Chapter 14. The Zen of Exercise and Headaches
Part Four. Hands-on: The Healing Power of Touch
Chapter 15. Touch Prep: Listening With Your Hands
Chapter 16. Backing Down Headaches with Self-Massage
Chapter 17. Relax Your Head and Face
Chapter 18. Headaches in the Language of Touch
Chapter 19. Mundo Method Therapy Self-care Instructions
Part Five. The Deeper Realms of Headache
Chapter 20. Headaches, Somatic Shaping, and Trauma
Chapter 21. Embodied Wisdom: Your Feeling Self
Part Six. Embodying Your New Life
Chapter 22. Completion and Appreciation
Index
About the Author
"Just follow Jan's advice, and watch your headaches go away."
- from the foreword by Alexander Mauskop, MD, Director of the New York Headache Center
"I have followed Jan Mundo's work for many years and have found it not only useful but profound. Although the focus of this book is on headaches, it speaks to a much bigger subject: the quality of our relationship with our feelings, our minds, and our bodies. I hope The Headache Healer's Handbook will find its way into the hands of millions of professionals and headache sufferers who wish to empower themselves with superb healing strategies."
- Gay Hendricks, PhD, author of The Big Leap and Five Wishes
"Help is here for headache sufferers who feel they've been given a life sentence without hope. If you want to relieve headaches and migraines naturally and quickly without medication, the Mundo Program is a powerful choice. It will not only relieve you of your pain but also enable you to prevent future headaches and migraines."
- Michelle S. Fondin, author of The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda and Chakra Healing for Vibrant Energy
"Jan Mundo has long been a masterful practitioner in the somatic art of healing headaches. Now her new book will bring her tested methodology and
