The Review Diaries
By She Unlimited Magazine
Review by Veronica Marie Kettler
Senior Editor
My Beauty & My Beast - Mind, body and PMS
By Pauline Houle

Overlook the typical mockery stereotypical joking and set it aside! There is a deeper truth and understanding through awareness regarding PMS that has to be addressed. Pauline Houle does this perfectly. My Beauty & My Beast contains a wealth of information which is clearly presented.

"Excerpt: The fine impressions of any situation associated with an emotion creates an imprint that is stored in our body through its cells. It is increasingly acknowledged by the scientific community that we have a past memory that expressed itself through our bodies and it is not always easy to access it.

Exploring this memory can serve us in understanding the present results in our lives. This presence of a cellular memory imprinted throughout our bodies as well as within our old brain reflects our misunderstood and unresolved past traumas."

Pauline Houle brings awareness to parents, mothers, and fathers and how to constructively react to a younger girl's entrance into womanhood. She helps bring clarity to understand our own body's defense mechanism in easy to read terms and how our mental functioning can impact our PMS by incorporating the "Mind State of Accountability" ?.

There is more then a handful of women that experience PMS as Taboo. It may appeal to some to know that her book sets forth a new discovery to our inner thoughts and feelings during our menstruation. Pauline Houle brings knowledge and awareness to understanding a women's menstruation and how an "Outburst" ? is not just a woman's typical symptom that goes along with menstruation but a reaction that is the effect of unresolved and accumulated emotions that need to be evacuated.

As women we need to be more aware of our menstruation and of certain emotions and physical symptoms associated with one another.

There are extended chapters that focus on issues like our feminine side and relationships, side affects like headaches. My favorite is "What Medicine Thinks About PMS" ?, categories that are focused on and grouped in "The Anxiety Group" ? "Cravings Group" ? and many others we as women can relate to.

How we eat and diet can have its effects on our PMS symptoms. This book sheds light and brings a real comprehension that one can deduct from the crisis we as women experience through PMS.

It is all about "Putting the Pieces Together" ? and healing.