Bick Wanck - Mind Easing: The Three-Layered Healing Plan for Anxiety and Depression

Praise for Mind Easing

Dr. Bick Wanck unveils a remarkably safe and effective approach to the relief of both soft and hard versions of anxiety and depression that empowers the natural flow of healing. Mind Easing offers a simple, powerful, and actionable healing plan that will help millions on their road to mental health wellness.

Mark Hyman, MD, director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

Dr. Bick Wanck has written a clear, thoughtful, and well-reasoned guide to healing the troubled or injured mind. Unlike either/or approaches to emotional distress, Mind Easing brings together the best medical, psychological, and spiritual approaches in a well-integrated, holistic framework. Dr. Wanck emphasizes the minds natural healing abilities and how best to augment them with judicious use of mindfulness, exercise, diet, and stress managementand in some instances, with talk therapy or medication. I recommend this very helpful book to anyone who is searching for a path to emotional and physical wellness.

Ronald W. Pies, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry, lecturer on Bioethics
& Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; editor-in-chief, emeritus,
Psychiatric Times; author, The Shepherd of Lost Children and Psychiatry on the Edge

Diverse lifestyle and therapeutic modalities, so often presented as mutually exclusive, are incorporated in Mind Easing into an approach aimed at not just temporary treatment but long-term healing. Author Bick Wanck, MD, encourages sufferers to create a fluid healing plan that adjusts to changing conditions in their lives to maximize healing and safety, not just relieve symptoms. This is a very helpful addition to the literature for those with depression or anxiety and likely for their caregivers as well.

COL (ret) Arthur Brown, MD, former science director, Armed Forces
Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand,
and contributor to The Oxford Textbook of Medicine

This is just what the doctor ordered: a ground-breaking, eye-opening, mind-opening book that provides a pioneering, perceptive, provocative, practical, positive, powerful plan for healing. It is filled with impactful, innovative, intriguing ideas, insights, and inspiration that will engage and enrich the lives of people facing anxiety and depression as well as their health care practitioners, helping professionals, and caregivers.

Dr. Joel Goodman, founder of the HUMOR Project, Inc. in Saratoga Springs, NY,
and author of Laffirmations: 1,001 Ways to Add Humor to Your Life and Work

From the moment you open this book, you will feel Dr. Bick Wancks caring, professional, and trustworthy nature. His words are soothing, and his effective multilayered plan is easy to adopt. With his kind and encouraging style, Dr. Wanck helps you weave a powerful healing plan that will guide you out of the tangles of distress and into a state of comfort and clarity.

R. Keith McCormick, DC, author of The Whole Body Approach to Osteoporosis,
founder of OsteoNaturals, ten-time world championship competitor, and Olympian

Mind Easing is an extraordinary book. It swiftly guides you to the core tasks that will rebuild your strengths. Im thrilled that my clients will now have this powerful resource in their recovery.

Reid Wilson, PhD, author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head:
The New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry

Each layer of Mind Easings personal healing plan incorporates simple, effective, and doable approaches that will motivate and empower readers to play an active role in their healing. Dr. Bick Wanck provides a much-needed guide to relieving anxiety and depression that will help readers discover how resilient they truly are.

Patricia A OGorman, PhD, consulting psychologist,
speaker, author of The Resilient Woman

Mind Easing reminds us that sometimes the gut holds the key to emotional wellness. With his recommendations for diet, including the use of psychobiotics, Dr. Wanck shows readers how a diet that is good for the gut can also be good for the mind.

Vincent Pedre MD, Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, Faculty,
Institute for Functional Medicine, bestselling author, Happy Gut: The Cleansing
Program to Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Eliminate Pain

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is available through the Library of Congress

2019 Bick Wanck, MD

ISBN-13: 978-07573-2154-2 (Paperback)

ISBN-10: 07573-2154-2 (Paperback)

ISBN-13: 978-07573-2155-9 (ePub)

ISBN-10: 07573-2155-0 (ePub)

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

HCI, its logos, and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

3201 S.W. 15th Street

Deerfield Beach, FL 334428190

Mind Easing is a self-help guide of suggested wellness and treatment approaches designed to assist the way your mind naturally heals from anxiety and depression. It does not take the place of wellness and treatment recommendations by trained professionals. Be sure to consult with your prescriber, therapist, or wellness professional before you try any of the suggestions in this book. It is especially important to consult with a professional before incorporating any of the suggestions in this book if you have a medical condition or a genetic predisposition to one, or if you are or think you might be pregnant. Be sure to review your healing plan with professionals before you put it into action.

All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this book as of the date of publication. The author and the publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects arising from the use or application of the information contained herein.

The author has no financial relationship with any manufacturer of a pharmaceutical, herbal remedy, or dietary plan or supplement, nor with any competitor of a pharmaceutical, herbal remedy, or dietary plan or supplement mentioned in this book.

The characters, events, and places portrayed in this book are fictional. Any similarities to actual people, events, or places are entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Larissa Hise Henoch

Interior design and formatting by Lawna Patterson Oldfield

Author photo by Tom Stock of Stock Studios Photography

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