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    A Letter To My Younger Self: I Couldn’t Have Gotten Here Without You

    by Christiane Northrup, M.D. May 10, 2020 4 minutes
    A Letter To My Younger Self: I Couldn’t Have Gotten Here Without You by Christine Northrup, MD. Photograph of an envelope with flowers bursting out of it by Carolyn V
    Photograph by Carolyn V

    Reflections from a trailblazer of women’s health looking back — a personal letter of love and gratitude to her younger self

    —

    Dear Chris (circa 1994), 

    I have just finished watching episode 2 of Kelly Turner’s Radical Remission docuseries produced by Hay House. And I have found myself cheering, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” These are the types of healing stories that your pioneering work spoke of so many years ago when very few people were listening.

    Even then you knew that people had the power to heal themselves — that our bodies know how to heal. 

    And now (finally), many more people are ready to listen.   

    As I look back at

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