Happiness is the Key to Getting Well!

Many of us wander aimlessly yet are fiercely determined looking for reasons why we have anxiety and panic.
Aimlessly because we look in all the wrong places but get oh so close.
Fiercely determined by never giving up the search for answers to the why and for solutions we desperately need so we can feel normal again.  Some of us go years with small intervals of time feeling normal. Some of us very rarely feel anxiety and some of us never feel normal. Fight or flight is our normal.  And it is exhausting.

But we continue to live with it because we have no choice.
We want to be free and happy.  We want to know there is an end in sight.
We want our friends and families to stop telling us it's all in our head and that we can stop it like we really want to be this way and are doing it for attention.
And for them to see it as a real medical condition that is debilitating a lot of the time.

It dictates how we live our lives, how safe we make our lives, how much we can work, where we can work, if we get sick a lot, if we can sleep, if we can make it to the very important meeting for work, if we can get through the grocery store line or the line at the bank without stopping and turning to run. Some of us create a world within a 5 mile radius of where we live and we don't go to the movies and we don't sit in the middle of a room full of people because we feel we can't get out.  Most of our family and friends just shake their heads not understanding the pain we feel is very very real.

But the world is a place of love if we let it be.

I had a very interesting experience the other night that made me feel like I have been divinely led to some very powerful tools that just might be the answer to our prayers and I couldn't wait to share it with you.
My God, my angels, my intuition, my spirit and soul have all been working to lead me to someone who has been in the business of healing and did a lot of research for us.
I have worked very hard to be able to listen and to be led to the tools that can make me whole again. What seemed like out of the blue (knowing now it was destined for me to hear it) I found myself listening to a wellness guy I follow on Facebook who does radio shows on all kinds of health issues.

You know how we all think we have the disease we just read about or might have a brain tumor because we have a headache that just won't go away or is the worst ever. I am always looking for ways to be healthy without medicine.

This day he was interviewing a woman called Lissa Rankin and the more I listened the straighter I sat up.  To say the least I was very intrigued by what she was saying and was most intrigued by the science behind her findings.

I became so excited that I decided to read her book. I think I may have stumbled onto some insightful information we should consider and take seriously. It offers hope for an end to our never ending battle with panic and anxiety. And it offers scientifically based evidence of medical and physiological explanations for it.

Lissa Rankin is a medical doctor who grew weary of conventional medicine not healing people.  And panic and anxiety is one of the conditions she was discussing.

I feel like I am about to embark on the journey to freedom from a woman who found her calling to heal the sick without drugs and without a desire to get rich from her discoveries. She does write a book but her intention is pure. She is a true healer and wants to heal the sick. I feel it in my bones and hope and pray you will too. We deserve deliverance and I believe she offers it.  We will have to do our part.  Get ready to have your mind blown.

I will emphasize we have heard some of this before but not in the way that we could truly believe it and implement it.  It made sense but we couldn't quite get to the how.

There is science behind everything that is wrong and has plagued us for so long.

I am a science person and needed to hear this in this way to get it, to have the light bulb go off and really see how it is possible.  The science validates everything we feel and can also help our loved ones understand what it is and they may still say, well it's still your weakness, but who cares what they think.

We are the strongest people and will always persevere. We will understand and have each other to feel association with.  We are a tribe and will support each other and love each other through this process.  And we will be happy again if we do the work and have the faith needed to do it.  Our happiness will help to heal us physically and emotionally, ultimately minimizing if not delivering us from the bondage of anxiety and the damage it does to our bodies.

The credit belongs solely to Miss Lissa Rankin. Her willingness to research tirelessly to find out how to use her medical background and access to medical journals backing up her findings is nothing short of selfless.

I think she would want me to spread the word. She doesn't want us to be sick and I hope this helps you and me.

I will go over what I think is very important to us in particular but I want to first tell you the name of the book that revealed this to me and then tell you to go to her webpage and see everything for yourself.  She is the healer.  I am someone who believes her and thanks her for her sincere desire to heal.  The book is Mind Over Medicine.  Google her name and go to her website. A wealth of information is there for you to peruse and use what will help you individually.

I praise God for Lissa Rankin MD.

Moments In Time......: A Season of my Soul

Moments In Time......: A Season of my Soul

A link to my other blog that is related to my panic and anxiety.

The Nature of Panic Disorder

Wow! It's been a year since I posted here. I really can't believe it but yes I guess I can. I have been so busy tending to surviving the daily battle of panic attacks. I feel like I've been running a marathon for a solid year. I have journaled on my IPad during the tough nights and sporadically during the day.  I wasn't able to focus on an actual blog post.

I know I am not alone in this. I know that when I tried to join a stress and anxiety support group that we sufferers had to attend at a given date and time, inevitably attendance was 1 to 5 people depending if that person could make it from their house to the meeting that day.  Traffic may have been unbearable, the time slipped our mind, depression took over. You understand, I know you do!

So here we are a year later. I survived and am here to tell the tale that we are survivors. We fight and we push and we are constantly exhausted from the fight but never giving up we make it to the time when things finally break through the dark cloud into the blue sky where we can actually see the leaves on the trees, see past the tunnel that is our vision, see to the right and to the left of the thing we are able to strenuously focus on. We can breathe better and we can write to encourage those in the middle storm that it does stop for awhile.

We are strong. My son says I am the strongest person he knows, fighting while working, raising him, caring for my elderly mother...all things most people do but those things plus my struggle makes me the strongest person he knows. I am blessed to have his words of wisdom and encouragement in my head daily. I remember what he said and I keep going!

My year post will be long and maybe boring but hearing and reading will help you know you are not alone and maybe give you ideas of how to deal with the things I went through because they may be your things now or later and you will relate.