Stress Affect Your Overall Health Testimonial

When Does Stress Affect Your Overall Health?

So, you are wondering when does stress affect your overall health? The fact that you are even asking the question about how stress is impacting you is probably your answer…NOW.

To more clearly assess if your stress is having an affect on your overall health is to honestly answer these questions:

Physical Awareness

  • Do you have chronic headaches?
  • Do you have chronic back pain?
  • Do you have chronic muscle tension?
  • Do you have heart disease?
  • Do you have heart palpitations?
  • Do you have decreased immune function – sick more often?
  • Do you have stress stomach problems?
  • Do you have sleep insomnia?
If you answered yes to a number of these questions, you may be realizing how stress affect your overall health.

I think one of the things that is so hard in managing stress is that most people think that they can just will themselves through all the stressors in their lives. While that may be an option for awhile, eventually the body starts to wear down from chronic stress.

It just does.

And, the body wears down because it is not designed to function in a healthy way in a state of chronic stress. There is an honest to goodness physiology of stress that will eventually catch up to even the strongest of people.


When does stress affect your overall health?

Another practical way to look at this question is to assess what kind of help you find yourself needing in coping with stress of your day?

  • Do you need help with anger management?
  • Do you need drugs or alcohol to manage your stress?
  • Do you smoke more often to cope with stress?
  • Are you experiencing an increase in social anxiety symptoms?
  • Do you want to cry more often?
  • Are you eating more or eating less to cope with your stress?
  • Are you having more problems with relationships?

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Life does not have to just be endured

I honestly can say to you that you DO have control over how to relieve stress. Many of the stress solutions you seek ARE within your control.

I can teach you how to connect with the BEST of who you are in a way that will not add to the stress in your life.

I can teach you some stress relaxation techniques that you can use throughout the craziness of each day. You don’t have to wait until you get home, or go to the gym to use them.

When stress affects your overall health is when you find yourself asking the question…and, now you have access to some stress solutions that will make a difference to you as you regain control over your life.








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Testimonials

“Ms. Churchill is the unique health care worker everyone hopes to encounter, but rarely does. She has an extraordinary gift that allows her to do much more than diagnose and treat.”
Abbie K. – Minneapolis




K., age 45, is a long term chronically PTSD disabled patient. She has had daily headaches for 20 years. Two weeks ago she reported that she had had 4 days of pain free time, and was having the exceedingly odd sensation of "smiling all the time". She and Cathi have made extraordinary fast progress together.
Dr. Cole




I referred C.L., age mid-forties, to see Cathi after a life of suffering the post traumatic stress disorder of parental sexual abuse over many years of her childhood, with major dysfunctions of alcohol and drug abuse, and with the disabling symptoms of migraine that have for more than twenty years become chronic.

She has lived with daily headaches that have not responded to any of the several drugs which have benefited many such suffering patients. She has needed chronic opiate treatment of her chronic pain syndrome.

In the few weeks that Cathi has worked with her, C.L. has begun to experience days without pain, periods of happiness, and a reduction in her opiate dosage requirements that represent a breakthrough in her stalled-out life as a single mom raising a teen-age daughter with only social security income resources.
Dr. Racer








“I first met Cathi Churchill eight years ago when she effectively helped my work unit through the stress of a hospital-wide layoff. I was impressed with her clear-minded approach and willingness to listen.”
Andy R.




N., age 60, is a hard driving attorney twenty year patient of mine who hit the wall with chronic fatigue four years ago, and began to realize she had to learn to rest. She recovered enough to return to her workaholic lifestyle when she was stopped by a herniated cervical disc and resumption of her chronic colitis.

Working with Cathi, she is discovering "the way she does life" and learning to make choices about it. She came in last week, having "danced until dawn". She is learning to dialogue with her body in effective ways.
Dr. Cole




“I stumbled upon Cathi after my recent heart attack that was brought on by stress. I was scared of having another one, and didn’t know what to do. I had lost hope. Working with her has changed my life. I’m so grateful."
Debbie – Canada




M.S., a woman in her late forties with progressively more and more disabling rheumatoid arthritis since childhood, whose most recent problems have arisen over the last two to three years as complications of immunosuppressive therapy for her disease. The complications have been associated with the severely disabling chronic pain of recurrent herpes neuralgia for more than three years, and for the past 15 months, recurrent osteomyelitis in her right lower mandible.

The second, more alarming (even life-threatening) problem has caused months of diagnostic and therapy confusion among her many consultants, three successive resections of the bone over the last six to eight months, and the still ongoing threat of more relapses of the smoldering bone infection and chronic pain only made bearable by chronic, massive doses of opiates.

In the few months since M. began to work with Cathi with several modalities: stress management, therapeutic touch, guided imaging, and others, her life has become more livable, as she has become able to bear the pain and the discouragement of unresolved disease.

She has relied on many of the methods for maintaining hope and getting through overwhelming discouragement by using the inner resources she has learned with Cathi.

My hope as her primary physician, is that Cathi and M. will be able to continue to work together to maintain that inner strength and hope as she faces yet more months of pain, and further repeated surgery.

Thank you for the healing guidance you've been able to give her thus far.
Dr. Racer




“I sought out the help of Cathi during my divorce, and found her to be an insightful and compassionate coach. Her ability to see deep into the heart of an emotionally stressful problem is, I believe, unique and I would highly recommend her service to anyone.”
P.R. – Brooklyn Center




S., age 48, is a Laotian patient of mine with 15 years of chronic abdominal pain. She has had an extensive medical worked up, and nothing ever worked. Cathi saw her over several months.

S. has improved! Cathi established a trusting relationship with her, and helped her to effectively break through her wall of silence and grief about her son's mental illness, and taught her how to "change her thinking".

S. now comes in smiling, notes some unusual continued symptoms, but no longer has chronic abdominal disabling pain.
Dr. Cole




“Control My Stress is so amazing. I want to thank you, again, for such a valuable resource.”
Tony.


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