I just finished reading a book called What's Up Down There? Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, which I loved, and so I went to author Dr. Lissa Rankin's website called Owning Pink. Lissa was a gynecologist for years until she became fed up with what she considered an incomplete system. She felt the medicine she was trained to practice was missing something, so she quit her job and spent some time coming up with a new, more holistic model that I think makes much more sense.
I'll be honest and say that if I had come across Owning Pink without having read Lissa's book and not knowing her background, I probably would have dismissed it as touchy-feely crap that somebody made up 'cause they don't like going to the doctor. That's not what this is. Dr. Rankin has extensive medical knowledge from being a physician for 8 years, and she had the courage to give up a secure job and stable life because she knew the system in which she worked was not quite right. It didn't jive with her picture of what it meant to be completely healthy.
Her view on "whole health" is not just about physical health, it includes spirituality, sexuality, relationships, financial issues, life purpose, and environment, among other things. The idea is that all aspects of your life need to be healthy in order for you to be "wholly" healthy, and if any of these parts are crumbling, your physical health deteriorates, showing signs of this unhealthiness. It's really very logical. I recommend you take a look at Lissa's own explain on her website. (The theory applies to both men and women, but most of the Owning Pink website is aimed at women.)
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