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| As a
doctor, writer and teacher, MJ Bovo believes that instead of being
victims,
we have the power within to be victors. We need to take responsibility
for the here and now, instead of blaming others. Responsibility is a
necessary
ingredient of health and happiness. We make our life what we choose. In
her private Manhattan practice, she treats the whole person. This
positive
approach to life is also reflected in her writing.
The Family Pregnancy: A Revolutionary Twelve Month Holistic and Medical Guide to Maternity, Dr. Bovo's first book, began gestating while her own daughter was pregnant. At the urging of her patients and daughter, she wrote an innovative book which answers the questions people have, but also teaches Moms and Dads how to get in touch with their unborn child. In keeping with her philosophy, she feels that if parents bond with their unborn child, there is less likelihood of family abuse. The Second Edition is due in December, to be packaged with On the Road to Motherhood, a Personal Pregnancy Journal for the Mom-to-be. Her newest pregnancy book, Do You Have Any Question: A Woman Doctor Answers the 100 Most Asked Qustions About Pregnacy, is in bookstores, or available from Newport Books. To extend her avenues of disseminating information, she began writing fiction. From the Ashes shows the survival of childhood incest, a still taboo subject, and the impact on the lives it touches. Taking Chances deals with the choices we make as adults as a result of childhood emotional abuse and reveals how one can overcome this to establish self-empowerment. She believes people need to learn from each other. Her novels reveal how relationships between men and women can flourish instead of flounder. Women see others in the same, all too common, situations. Men see what they can do to strengthen their own relationships. In 1997, she extends her reach for overcoming abuse with a hard-hitting, non-fiction book, Breaking the Chains that Bind: How to STOP Being a Victim and Become a New YOU. Previews of her newest book, A Child Betrayed, can be seen and ordered on it's own web site. Earning a B.S. degree in two and a half years, she began medical school with her twelve year-old daughter in tow. An aspiring heart surgeon, her plans changed the day she walked into the gynecology clinic. Medical treatment of women had not changed in twenty years. Dr. Bovo decided to change it. She graduated from medical school two weeks before her daughter's high school graduation, then completed residency training on her fortieth birthday. Called the "Ann Landers of the Gynecology World", she wrote a definitive Contraceptive Guide for Modern Brideand has been quoted in numerous publications including Glamour, Mirabella, Woman's World, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, Redbook and First for Woman. She has written a health column for Modern Bride, Healthlineand a regular feature, Doctor-on-Board, for Living Aboard boating magazine. Dr. Bovo has lectured nationally and at The Learning Annex. |
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