Mind Set |

March 29, 2012

Is Feeding Your Spirit Daily the Solution To Your Symptoms of Depression?

Spirit Daily

Do holidays depress you?

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UPDATE November 30, 2012

Welcome to my blog. It’s been a while since I posted here on Heart Failure Solutions.

I’ve been very busy creating The Life Breath Club and we are in the beginning stages of bringing our online membership to life!

Chris Downs needed a heart transplant when he joined The Life Breath Club.

He credits what he learned from The Life Breath Coach with his healing.

Chris no longer needs a heart transplant!

Awesome healing is happening!

I really love this post I wrote over a year and a half ago now, because it speaks to your need to connect with others in order to find your solutions.

Nobody heals in isolation. Surround yourself with positive support.

Set yourself up for success. Without your health, what do you have?

Now back to the blog post you came to read …

Can holidays really feed your spirit?

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Do holidays depress you?

Halloween can be a rather dark sort of celebration, though my family embraces the fun of masquerading as opposed to the “scare factor”.

I have friends that don’t celebrate Halloween because they feel that it conflicts with their religion. Over the years I have given that quite a bit of thought myself.

For me, it comes down to connection with our community. If we reject the popularity of Trick or Treating, we lose a chance to bond with our neighbors.

Since it really does take a village to raise a child, I feel strongly about taking every opportunity to connect with the busy individuals that make up our Village Family.

Visiting over hot cider while the kids collect their candy is a lot of fun for the grown ups, and the kids love to run around after dark enjoying each others company.

It’s just not something that happens everyday!

When we head home at the end of the evening I always have a happy heart. Connecting with my neighbors really feeds my Spirit!

Feeding your Spirit daily can be a challenge. You can count on your community to be out and about during popular festivities. You know they will be ready for some fun.

All you have to do is be willing to get out there with them!

How will you feed your Spirit tomorrow?

Portia is a spirited red head who has lead a very colorful life. She has raised 3 boys and sent them off into the world.

She considers herself a “part time mom” these days because she just has one child left at home, an easy going sweet heart of a little girl. Any parent of an only child will agree that parenting is a full time job no matter how many rug rats you are rearing!

Portia has had a tough time celebrating herself.

2010 started off a whole lot differently for Portia. She found Healthy Solutions Chat and accepted the invitation to make it her Health Mastermind.

Portia needed encouragement to nurture herself. She always put herself last on her list, and Healthy Solutions Chat was just the inspiration she needed. She rarely missed her weekly Mastermind Call and it became her own personal “Self Care Challenge”.

Portia credits the online support she found for getting her through a Creative Writing Course that she completed this year. Not only did she pass the class with flying colors, she also experienced great healing by writing her life story.

The intense emotions that writing her story brought up would typically have sent her into a downward spiral. Not this year!

All week long she remembered what she learned in Mastermind and the bond she created with her Mastermind Team Members kept her feeling loved and supported.

Self Care started happening daily!

Portia shares her secrets with anyone who will listen:

Spend time in silence daily.

Accept what is, because what you resist persists.

Breathe!

Enjoy activity daily.

Plug in with people who support you.

Be committed to YOU and Masterminding YOUR health!

Get enough SLEEP!

Portia says:

“Feeding my Spirit Daily” is SO much better than drugging my symptoms.”

If you are currently using drugs to deal with depression, please don’t let my message discourage you.

There is a lot you can do to combat your depression and get off of medication. When you medicate the depression, you medicate your Joy, too.

In order to feel the heights of your happiness, you have to allow the processing of all those less than pleasant and even down right painful emotions.

There are some very practical steps you can take to support a new approach to battling your depression.

Food Matters is a well respected nutritional education company, and they say there are 5 reasons you should NOT drug your symptoms of depression.

Are you considering using Anti-Depressant Drugs to treat your depression?

5 Reasons NOT To Drug Your Symptoms of Depression

Reason One: The Journal of the American Medical Association says that SSRI’s like Paxil and Prozac are no more effective in treating depression than a placebo pill.

The article says that SSRI’s may be useful in treating severe depression BUT they don’t have any effect on the routine type of depressions they are most often used to treat.

Using SSRI’s if you have normal, mild, or routine depression is a waste of money, and the drugs have serious side-effects including increased suicidal feelings, aggression, and loss of sexual drive.

Reason Two: In January of this year, MedPage Today cited a study done at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins. The study says that doctors routinely prescribe not one but two or three SSRI’s and other psychopharmological drugs in combination with few if any serious studies to back up the multiple usage.

The reason for these multiple prescriptions is that one drug isn’t working on its own. Two or three of this same type of drug is a better idea? Doctors are performing uncontrolled experiments on their patients!

Drugs have dangerous interactions! Are you willing to be a guinea pig to discover which drugs will react dangerously?

Reason Three: The DSM, diagnostic manual of psychological and psychiatric disorders, which outlines the care pathway in treating disease, is manufacturing new reasons to drug you.

Would you say that you have any of the following “diseases”?

shyness
sadness
restlessness
shopping too much
high sex drive
low sex drive

Increasingly the criteria for inclusion in the DSM, the diagnostic manual of psychological and psychiatric disorders, involves whether the disorder responds to a category of drugs.

We just discussed how the Journal of the American Medical association says that a key class of drugs being used to treat depression for the past 20 years is INEFFECTIVE!!

It is necessary to RETHINK this basis for labeling lifestyle disorders “diseases”.

Reason Four: The future is here, and the social control dreaded since the 1960s is now accepted in the form of a pill.

It may be a whole lot easier to pop a pill than it is to explore the reasons for your distress.

Exploring the reasons for your distress are a whole lot easier than living with side effects such as:

increased suicidal feelings
aggression
loss of sexual drive

You may not have a problem being socially controlled, but the side effect of increasing your suicidal thoughts may be fatal.

Reason Five: The whole serotonin hypothesis is challenged by these findings.

This new information shows that there may be some help using SSRIs if there is a severe shortage of serotonin, but the average person’s depression cannot simply be related to a “chemical imbalance.”

The human brain is complicated and so are we! It is absurd to use the simple, quick explanation that depression is related to serotonin alone.

We have no way of measuring serotonin in the brain of a living person, short of cutting open the skull.

There is no way to accurately say what a normal level of serotonin should be. It can NOT be said that you will be depressed if your serotonin is too low, or that you will be “happy” if you maintain a “normal” serotonin level.

People with high serotonin levels can be depressed and those with low levels can be happy.

Serotonin inducing drugs like ecstasy can make you feel very happy, but so can alcohol and heroin!

The increasing tendency to drug depression is a HUGE CONCERN!

Don’t let anyone tell you that you’ve got a chemical imbalance!

Ask them what they actually mean and where is the science to prove that statement!

“But, how do I get OFF drugs?!”

If you are already on prescriptive drugs for depression this news is devastating!

Getting off the drugs your doctor likely told you are not addictive may be easier said then done!

One secret to getting off drugs is to get connected with people who know how to combat depression naturally!

I got off anti-depressants the hard way! I did not know Sacred Breathing or the arsenal of depression fighting tools I know now … way back then. Psychotropic drugs were prescribed for me in attempt to reduce the mind numbing pain of auto immune issues. I had no idea I was taking a mind altering chemical, AND the little bit of relief I did get from the drugs was not solving my problem!

10 years of suffering through pain before I found relief with Chiropractic Care, Wholesome Food, and Sacred Breathing is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy!

How do you get off drugs?

Portia Rose from New Zealand is determined to stay off drugs!

She credits the things she learned in The Life Breath Club for her awesome success!

“It isn’t always easy to apply every little gem I get from The Life Breath Coach, but I’ve found that when I feel out of sorts I am quickly set right when I get back to the basics.”

Life Breath Club Basics:

Spend time in quiet stillness daily

Honor yourself by visiting with YOU daily.

Be patient and see what thoughts arise for you each day.

Get to know yourself again! Spending time in nature can really make this basic self care more powerful.

Mother nature is very healing.

Accept what is, because what you resist persists.

Refusing to accept what IS … is insanity!

Acceptance is the first step to creating the transition that will take you from what you don’t want into what you DO want!

Enjoy activity daily.

Move it or lose it!

Remember that activity is a powerful way to treat and beat depression!

It might help if you DON’T call it “exercise”.

Get enough SLEEP!

You ONLY create the fuel you burn while you are sleeping.

If you suffer from poor sleep give some attention to nutrition, activity, exposure to sunlight (30 minutes a day at least), hydration, and conscious slow breathing all day long, not just when you are trying to fall asleep. When you focus on your breath, you “Breathe Into Now”.

Breathing into now is a good thing. You only have NOW. There is nothing available to you in the future or the past. The present moment is the only one accessible.

That might sound like some strange sleep advice, but you’ll find that when you prioritize sleep and attend to self care, sleep is not elusive.

Plug in with people who support you.

No man (or woman) is an island!

Your support system will raise you up til your Spirit Sings!

Living your life WITHOUT support is setting yourself up for FAILURE!

Plug in with neighbors or join a local senior group. Get out there and find kindred spirits!

Virtual support is a powerful thing, too!

Portia Rose is half a world away from The Life Breath Coach, but the virtual support she gets keeps her connected!

Click on the link below and find out how The Life Breath Club can benefit you!

Join The Life Breath Club Today!

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Heart Crisis |

May 31, 2011

| by Carrie Tucker

Did You Know That Stages of Dying From Heart Failure Can Happen Without You Even Noticing?

UPDATE March 3, 2012

It’s important to realize that the seriousness of what you are dealing with urgently calls for you to take action.

Your chance to recover from debilitating illness largely depends on your awareness of exactly what it is that you need to do.

The harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs is another possible obstacle.

Since your disease process is very advanced by the time you receive a heart failure diagnosis you have good reason to be concerned. So often though, I see that caregivers are also living with very concerning symptoms that are never addressed until they themselves are facing drastic circumstances!

Heart Failure Solutions offers real answers for Heart Failure and other forms of cardiovascular disease as well as any other disease that might show up on your journey to wellness.

The tools are here for you to utilize. Only you can receive this gift. If your loved one can’t see the value in simple change you can’t want it FOR them.

This is NOT pie in the sky! This is real hope and real solution.

Starting sooner than later is a really great idea, but even if you are already in dire straights, the information you’ll find here is about what you can do RIGHT NOW to help yourself.

What’s done is done. Are you ready to step up for yourself?

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If you are wondering about the stages of dying from heart failure, you or your loved one are probably late in the disease process.

By the time heart failure is diagnosed, you have already been suffering from heart disease for years.

If your doctor says your heart failure was caused from “a virus of unknown origin”, that information is not helpful.

Heart disease IS a disease of the circulating blood.

Bacteria and viruses may very well contribute to the growing disease in your circulating blood, but Continue reading article →

Social Connection |

May 10, 2011

| by Carrie Tucker

Does It Take Mother Nature To Get Your Family To Reconnect?

UPDATE March 3, 2012

It seems hard to believe that almost an entire year has passed since I wrote this post!

Time is so precious!

It slips away before you know it!

The past year has been amazing! As Heart Failure Solutions introduces Your Sacred Breathing Hand Book and “The Life Breath Club” I feel confident that our vision to make SOLUTION available to every person and every family on the planet will be realized quickly and easily.

Tell your neighbors of the help you receive here because your community need this information as much as you do!

Take every opportunity to nurture relationships where you live, because connection is what life is all about AND your relationships with others will bring you ideas and resources you can’t access in isolation!

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The rain has been pounding on the ridge I live on.

I’m talking, a small river has formed!

It really isn’t surprising that a tree fell. In fact, the one I thought would fall next … fell.

I just wasn’t counting on losing my internet connection Mother’s Day Weekend!

The day before Mother’s Day was the very first lesson of “The Increase Your Oxygen Challenge”! (Now The Life Breath Club!)

Taking it all in stride helped. “Whatcha gonna do?”

Thanks to my girlfriend, JoAnn, I was able to relocate and set up in time to get a few hours sleep, and then be live with the Life Breath Club Members at 7am my time!

By the time I got home, I was ready for a long nap. I had more things than I could count to do. But everything stopped and I crawled in my bed.

I respect my bodies need for sleep. It doesn’t mean I don’t take massive action! In fact getting inspired has caused a sleep debt for me personally, many times. I’ve just learned to recognize the need to schedule sleep, as well as clear the schedule when an unexpected need for sleep arises.

Prioritizing your sleep can mean Continue reading article →

Heart Disease |

April 24, 2011

| by Carrie Tucker

Living With Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms; Will Easter Sunday 2011 Renew You?

UPDATE March 4, 2012

Can you believe Easter is coming up again next month?

Where does the time go?

If you or your loved on are living with Heart Failure, time is more precious than ever!

Please take the following message to heart and take ACTION immediately!

You CAN heal from heart failure and absolutely any other illness you are suffering from!

Read on ….

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Congestive heart failure symptoms cloud your perception and leave you without hope.

Easter time brings us Spring and new life.

Will Easter be a time of renewing for you?

Getting stuck in self destructive habits will tear you down. Hurting yourself is depressing!

What will it take to cause a shift to a more nurturing space?

How can Easter Sunday 2011 begin a season of hope and renewing for you?

I have been caregiving for over 25 years.

Caregivers do what they do because of the compassion that drives them. Nurturing others through their darkest hours takes more compassion than most people possess!

Caregivers stand in that compassionate place with such ease that they make it look effortless.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The challenge for caregivers is to prioritize self care.

Burn out will sneak up on you. It happens gradually when you don’t notice that your grooming, social life and physical activities begin to fall away.

My burnout happened without me noticing. I just woke up one day and found myself sick and exhausted. I hurt from the top of my head to the tip of my toes, and I had no idea how I got there or what to do to change the situation.

The journey back to health was a process. Valuing my needs as much as those I cared for was often challenging for me.

Do you have difficulty valuing “me time”?

There are only so many hours in the day, and there is SO much that needs to be done!

My purpose drives me so much that it is easy to devalue my own needs. The world is facing an epidemic of heart failure!

Low oxygen level is one of the most devastating congestive heart failure symptoms, an it is snuffing out life at an alarming rate!

I am passionate about teaching the world to self nurture and beat heart failure BEFORE it beats YOU!

It is so easy to find reasons that you don’t have time to slow down and rest, work usually trumps fun, and running on empty makes exercise feel like torture.

I couldn’t value “me time” until my pain level became mind numbing.

By the time I hit rock bottom, I had lost hope.

I didn’t even look for answers until I lost everything.

I couldn’t work, I couldn’t sleep, and nothing helped the pain, absolutely nothing!

That brick wall of pain turned out to be my saving grace!

The pain made me surrender. It made me be still. I had no answers.

Surrender is the first step to becoming a student. When I was ready, my teachers appeared.

I’ve got to admit that I was very skeptical of the messages I was receiving from the Universe. It was all just too simple.

My doctor was offering me narcotics to fight the pain, so the simple wisdom that kept crossing my path seemed to be insignificant.

Respiratory therapists breathe for you when you can’t breathe for yourself.

It was hard for me to accept that I was not breathing properly and that my pain level would not improve until I improved my breathing.

Un-learning what you think to be true can be impossible.

I am humbly grateful that I was able to receive that message from the wonderful teachers who saved me from myself.

I was set free from my prison of pain when I began to make significant progress with better breathing!

Congestive Heart Failure is a disease process that robs your hope. Continue reading article →

Drug Safety |

March 4, 2011

| by Carrie Tucker

Can Weight Loss Tips Be Dangerous?

Looking for weight loss advice?

You are in good company. So many just like you are hoping for something that will really help. Carrying around extra pounds is exhausting and worrisome.

I mean vanity isn’t the only reason you want to drop weight, right?

You want to protect your health for sure, but what you really need is more energy right now!

Shoot, if you had more energy, you’d have more fun!

If you had more fun, you’d be in a better place to make better choices!

Bring on the weight loss tips! Let’s find one that will work!

You’ve got nothing to lose but pounds …. right?

Wrong!

I started this post asking if weight loss tips can be dangerous.

That is a really good question, one that you should be asking yourself.

How can weight loss tips be dangerous? Continue reading article →