Books and courses for women’s health

I’m Dr. Gina Nelson, a board-certified OBGYN since 1994. My books and courses share practical lessons from more than three decades of caring for women in private practice.

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Newly Released online course!

Women’s Health Foundations: Mindset

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Build the mindset that makes healthier choices easier to sustain

Most of us know what we’re supposed to do for our health. Knowing, however, isn’t the same as doing it consistently.

Women’s Health Foundations: Mindset explores how your beliefs and thought patterns influence the everyday actions that shape your health. In this practical, physician-guided course, you’ll learn to:

  • Recognize your health mindset and limiting beliefs

  • Identify real-life barriers to healthier choices

  • Reframe beliefs that no longer serve you

  • Turn supportive beliefs into small, achievable actions

  • Use SMART goals without falling into all-or-nothing thinking

  • Track progress with curiosity rather than perfection

A downloadable Mindset Workbook will help you apply these ideas to your own life.

This course isn’t about rigid programs or changing everything at once. It’s about understanding yourself, choosing where to begin, and creating meaningful change through small, repeated actions.

Mindset is the first course in the Women’s Health Foundations series, laying the groundwork for future courses on nutrition, fitness, sleep, and other important areas of women’s health.

Currently Published:

in ebook format, print, and audiobook format

This book is a read through or a reference for anyone in women’s health care. This means medical assistants, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and resident physicians.

Written with over three decades of experience in women’s health, it captures the specifics and the spirit of outpatient health care for women.

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Other books coming soon:

This is the cover of a book entitled "The gift of difficult patients". Is features a female doctor wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope. She is reaching out to touch a rose but hesitates because of the thorns. This symbolizes our patients.
This is the cover of a book titled, "The Gift of Difficult Patients". It shows a healthy woman wearing a swimsuit and sunhat eating a strawberry.

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