Host: Sheryl Glick
Guest: Mary Heath (http://www.maryheath.co.uk/)
In today’s episode of “Healing From Within”, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication, healing energies, miracles and ways to go within to find your Higher Self, welcomes Mary Heath author of Get Your Life Back, a book which can help readers step out of the stress cycle and regain balance in their lives.
Mary Heath, who has 30 years experience in the Private Sector and the British National Health System as a Stress Management Consultant and is a trained Yoga teacher who has embraced other therapies such EFT- Emotional Freedom Technique.. CBT- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and NLP- Neuro Linguistic programming and energy field healing will show how building awareness through mindfulness can help us understand what causes stress, how to handle it and find solutions for managing anxiety and panic attacks.
Since we are not born with stress, anxiety or depression, why do so many people suffer the unpleasant symptoms. Mary suggests that we live in a very fast changing technological world today and stress war disease and other problems are rampant creating an unstable environment and elevated levels of unrest in the body and mind. Life and the ups and downs and strains allow us to collect as it is said…BAGGAGE… that can weigh heavily on our bodies hearts and minds…. Anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, depression, fear and anger, low confidence, and disorders such as OCD and Phobias are exaggerated by these challenging events. It is estimated that between 75% and 90% patients visiting their doctors are suffering from stress related ailments leading to conditions such as headaches, high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, arthritis and digestive and skin problems. A great deal of research has now proven and it is now recognized that the mind and body are not 2 separate entities but the body and mind are ONE.
Mary wrote “Many people think that stress is not a mental health condition and in many cases it isn’t. It is perfectly normal to feel stressed at the end of a busy working day and if after some rest relaxation and a good night’s sleep you recover and have little or no problem doing it all over again, that is normal. However, when stress turns into something that completely overwhelms you and you begin to suffer physical mental and emotional symptoms that don’t get better, then it becomes more serious. For example Depression often starts at a young age and affects women more commonly than men. One to two out of ten mothers have depression after childbirth and this affects the person with depression and affects their loved ones as well. Almost 1 million people worldwide take their lives each year. Suicide rates have increased over 60 percent over the last 45 years. Suicide occurs across all ages and in 2012 was the second largest global cause of death among 15 to 29 year olds.”
Mary describes her own experience with post-natal depression at the age of 23 after the birth of her first child. “It was quite severe and debilitating, I did eventually recover but continued to suffer occasional mild bouts of depression. When I had my second baby I suffered post-natal depression again. It wasn’t quite as bad but it went on for a long time and although I continued to take medication it didn’t help at all. I also suffered quite a few physical and psychological problems most of which were diagnosed as psychosomatic illnesses…illnesses of the mind..Trying to hide how I felt from my family put even more pressure on me. I wrongly assumed that it was best to keep as much to myself as possible. Of course looking back now I recognize that my body was reacting to the stress that I wasn’t dealing with either mentally or emotionally. One day when I was feeling low and in despair a concerned friend suggested that I start to take yoga classes.
