1,2,3... Stress Free

By Dr. Jacqueline Chambers

A candid look into the personal life of someone who on the surface, seemed to have had a charmed life, but behind the mask struggled with turmoil common to so many of us.

In 1,2,3 Stress Free, Dr. Jackie shares her personal struggles on her journey through depression, financial failures, suicidal thoughts and marital discord to a life worth living, filled with faith, hope and pure joy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Jacqueline Chambers
• Release date: Nov 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502279514

Dr. Jacqueline Chambers

Dr Jacqueline (Jackie) Chambers received her medical training at the University of the West Indies at Mona Jamaica. Her deep interest in, and independent study of Philosophy, Spirituality and Mysticism have had a profound impact upon the 'spiritualized' form of Medicine she practices. Dr Jackie strongly believes that our failure to manage stress makes a huge contribution to why we become sick.

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MY JOURNEY TO PEACE

As 1998 dawned, I was sure of only one thing....this is the year I would kill myself.

I had it all planned out....it would be clean and simple. Several options for my method of suicide had presented themselves to my feverish mind and, for various reasons, quickly rejected.

Believe it or not, there were distinct criteria for my impending suicide: it should be achieved with the least effort, be relatively painless and not leave a mess for others to clean up.

Take some pills... No, I might vomit & not complete the job.

Walk into the sea and take a deep breath... No, I don’t want my body to be on public display. This would be private... no gawkers allowed!

Hanging was out of the question... too painful, and it could get messy.

In the end the choice was clear...I would inject myself with a lethal dose of insulin and just sleep away....then I would be free of the chaos that was my life.  With this decision an eerie sort of calm settled over my mind... soon the pain of the world would be over... I would be finally free.

Finally free of all my tormented thoughts of FAILURE... and, to my mind, there were many!

On the surface of things, my life up to this point was a great success story... the kind that is made into Sunday afternoon made-for-TV movies.

When I was born my parents and four of my six siblings lived in a little two-room house in a poor section of Montego Bay called Coombs Lane.

So eager was I to come into the world, that I was born before the midwife arrived. My mother, with the help of a neighbor, delivered me, her seventh child, in the backroom of that little house in Coombs Lane.

My mother was a good home manager. She trained us in etiquette, hygiene and simple good manners. She had a vision for us which did not include ghetto life! So while my father toiled at his job as a hotel bartender, she gradually moved the family into better and better physical surroundings, until, by the time I was seven we were living in a four bedroom house in a middle-class neighborhood.

To my mother’s credit, she decided that education would be