About Your Stress Management Coach Melody Haines

After earning my Bachelors degree in Marketing at ASU, I spent the first 10 years out of college as a Purchasing Agent in the Aerospace industry.

I left that career to raise my daughter, but also started a small metaphysical publishing company, as well as several other small businesses along the way. It was a lot of fun, and I loved being home with my baby!

About 20 plus years ago, I developed chronic pain due to nerve damage from car accidents years before. This was only made worse when I finally gave in and had cervical fusion surgery for herniated disks in 2000.

Prior to the surgery I had tried every conventional and non-conventional modality for pain relief without result, and after surgery, I was truly desperate.

The pain was still so intense and so constant that I didn’t believe I could endure it, and I didn't want to live. I was terribly conflicted because I very much wanted to be here for my sweet daughter and husband, and I didn’t want to be dependent on prescribed medication or a burden on them either.

Out of this ‘trial by fire,’ my passion and purpose emerged, and my company, Mind Over Matter was born.

I had been a student of meditation and a spiritual seeker all of my life, so I in the past I often turned to meditation as a way to bring brief periods of relief.

But as a culmination of my research, study, and personal experience, I eventually found a way to eliminate suffering throughout my daily life, not just for those brief periods.

I developed my system, Emotional Peace, and discovered the wonderful bonus is that it works just as well for pain and stress reduction.

Emotional Peace mainly consists of the vigilant practice of conscious awareness in daily life. It is taught in a clear and simple way, that can be and should be done mostly while doing other life tasks. Sometimes it is combined with specific meditation techniques and other optional breathing and relaxation training. The more of the system you use, and the more you use it, the more results you will get. You can also just use the basic system and still get amazingly wonderful and life-changing results.

It was birthed directly out of the desperation I felt from the chronic pain I had experienced for so long, and although that was the strong motivation driving me to find the answer, clients tell me that this is was their "way out" of whatever stress, anxiety and depression they were experiencing before the Emotional Peace System, and that's the kind of thing I live for hearing from clients!

When these skills are developed and practiced consistently, changes actually take place in the practitioner’s brain, and a “re-wiring” occurs which changes ones’ perception of all life experience. Participants learn how to drop resistance, allowing a reduction of suffering and an increase in energy and fulfillment. Of course, I was my own first and best client.

Over the past 6 years, I’ve had the joy and privilege of helping many clients who were suffering with both stress and chronic pain, in private sessions as well as in group classes. I have coached these clients at first in my home, and in other people’s homes, as well as at “Millennium Healthcare” in Dunwoody, A Wellness Center by Dr. Patricia Cohen in Acworth, and the Herb Shop * Healing Center in Canton (all in Georgia).