Making Peace With Herpes
Making Peace With Herpes by Christopher Scipio, RH (AHG), is the original guide to living well with herpes, first published in 2006 and revised and improved over twenty years into the 20th Anniversary Edition. It is about living well, thriving, and overcoming the stigma of herpes — and it is the first of a three-part series with The Scipio Diet and Thriving With Herpes.
This book took twenty years to write. Not because I was slow. It took twenty years, and thousands of conversations with people living with this diagnosis, to understand what I now understand. About herpes. About the people who carry it.
The 20th Anniversary Edition is heavily rewritten. It carries everything in the original, and twenty more years of experience on top of it. What I know to be true after sitting with people in the hardest moments of their lives.
You and I will look at the full picture. The biology of the virus. The Scipio Diet. Outbreak management. The emotional and psychological work. The stigma and the shame. Telling a partner. Relationships. Planning a family. Rebuilding self-respect. And the long path toward genuine peace with the virus.
I have lived with herpes for thirty-six years. I have herpes, but herpes doesn’t have me. I wrote this book so you can say the same.
The series
The series begins with Making Peace With Herpes, about ending the war: laying down the weapons you’d been using against your own body and making a real, sustainable peace with the virus. The Scipio Diet is about the body: food and daily habits, tending it so the peace has somewhere to live. Thriving With Herpes completes the series and is about what people started asking me once the crisis passed: “I’m okay now. So why don’t I feel happy?” Peace is not happiness; peace is the end of the war, and happiness is what you build in the country the war used to occupy. Two companion books sit beside the series: Your Partner Has Herpes, written for the person who loves someone with herpes — not to alarm them, not to lecture them — and The 100 Questions About Herpes, which answers what people have brought me across twenty-three years of practice, directly and without hedging. Neither is for sale: readers of Making Peace With Herpes write to ask for them, and every request starts a conversation.
What readers say
Raw and real. A credible, courageous and compassionate introduction to the unique and multi-faceted healing journey called herpes. Christopher Scipio’s non-ordinary message and methods are congruent and sorely needed. Potent medicine for empowering more conscious living and loving.
— S.M.
The first book I have read that truly approaches herpes from a holistic stance. This book is about emotional intelligence: rediscovering truth, the earth and our sacred selves. A must read regardless of your herpes status.
— A. Bacon, Sex Educator
The author speaks to you directly with compassion and understanding. You will come to understand that it IS possible to manage this condition and come to peace with it.
— Anonymous, IT Technician
It offers a spiritual and emotional approach to dealing with the often devastating news. The author’s personal experience is something we can all relate to. There are no quick fixes for this and our emotional and psychological health is extremely important.
— C. Devine
It is warm and caring and full of wisdom. I’m grateful to Christopher Scipio for helping me understand this virus and learning how to deal with it without shame and as part of being a human being despite misplaced social stigma.
— Arize
It showed me a way to live with herpes holistically. It taught me to think positively about something that was making me very negative. I have given the book to several family members and friends who have herpes and they have loved it too.
— Charlotte in San Diego
This book helped me change for the better and move on with my life. It contains suggestions for veggies, juices, other foods, vitamin supplements and exercises that are very simple, inexpensive, and accessible — and that actually work.
— Anonymous, Horticulturist
I’ve lived with this disease for 15 years and this book is the first place I’ve found any real comfort or understanding. He’s actually offered hope! The education he provides about herpes is unmatched.
— Anonymous
About the author
Christopher Scipio is a Registered Herbalist, RH (AHG). He has worked as an herbalist for thirty-nine years and has specialized in herpes for twenty-three. He comes from ten generations of African-Caribbean herbalists and bush doctors. He has lived with herpes himself for thirty-six years.
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