Healing & Music - Heidi Cox

Oct 26, 2014, 06:34 AM

Is there a song or piece of music that lifts you when you're feeling ill or down? The BBC has put together a list of the top 10 songs that make you feel better when things aren't going so well. It's all part of the BBC's Faith in the World Week. We've also been speaking to people who have either been inspired by music or it has helped them through a particularly difficult time in their life. Heidi Cox, has two young sons, and is a member of Salisbury Plain Military Wives Choir. She says singing in the choir kept her going when her husband was away serving in Afghanistan. During one tour of duty Heidi was feeling particularly low and she found salvation and spiritual inspiration from composing her own song. BBC Wiltshire's Rebecca Rooney has been to find out how music helped her through one of the toughest periods of her life.