Mary Atkins

In ‘A Journey of Creative Healing’ Mary Atkins writes, that as a young widow with two small babies, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis having suffered debilitating symptoms for four years. Doctors told her she would be wheelchair bound within months. Instead she returned to full health by acting upon a powerful intuitive message that came to her as she was meditating. ‘I need to put my focus on being creative. I need to create something new each day. It doesn’t matter what – I simply need to focus on the planning and joy of creativity.’

Now in remission for over 50 years, she had many times tried to explain to others the steps that were important in her recovery and her story was seen as inspirational but there was no science at that time to give it credence. But within the last few decades, exciting medical scientific frontiers opened up. New research was showing her six steps of returning to health was not just a fanciful conviction. The time was right to compare her six-step-journey to wellness as well as those of other survivors’ stories with contemporary scientific studies and evidence.

Mary was an airhostess in the golden age of flying late 50’s and early ‘60’s. Her first date with Robert, her first love, was to the London opening night of My Fair Lady starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. The magic seemed to go on forever with them waltzing the streets of London singing I could have danced all night. They were together for five years before they married. Two weeks before their second anniversary Robert was killed in a plane crash leaving her with their two infant children to raise alone.

Mary grew up in war torn England. She was toddler when her family survived the bombing and loss of their home and everything they owned in the London blitz in WW11. She has memories of the woeful pulse of air raid sirens mixed with snatches of damp air raid shelters and tiered bunks in London subway stations, all of which provided refuge for Londoners as the armadas of planes droned overhead. She remembers her mother’s anguished face as they heard the sounds of the distant crump and thud of bombs hitting their targets. But equally, she remembers, the amazement and joy of finding silver-foiled wrapped chunks of chocolate lying in a laneway from spilled food parcel dropped by the Americans forces. She was 6 years old and had never tasted chocolate.

Today she is luxury cruise ship lecturer, enriching passengers’ cultural and historical knowledge of the South Pacific.

She is married and lives in a beachside gem of a coastal town in Queensland. She is a mother to 3 talented children, 8 gorgeous grandchildren and 2 sweetest little great grandchildren.