Every year at this time, the heat and humidity can become your worst enemy if. It doesn’t seem to matter where you are in the world, it just keeps getting hotter… and then, add the humidex! For people living with multiple sclerosis heat sensitivity, this seasonal change can be particularly challenging. But don’t worry, first […]
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What Happened When You Were Diagnosed? When you were diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), how did you respond? How did others react? That moment likely changed who you were, didn’t it? Did your anxiety increase? Did you start to doubt yourself? Panic about the future? Worry about your job, getting married, having babies, or what […]
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At Harvard Medical School during my first formal Mind-Body training, Dr. Herbert Benson shared something he learned in medical school, “that the greater part of what you was learning about the human body would be obsolete in five years.” That was 15 years ago, and guess what? Everything has changed! Neuroscience, Nutritional Science, Exercise Science […]
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A lot of the press study touts “Exercise therapy is one of the most promising treatment strategies in MS rehabilitation.” Since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1985, it is good to see this turn-around on the topic of exercise and MS. We have come a long way from being told by neurologists to take […]
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One of our biggest obstacles in, first, believing we can live a full and complete live with Multiple Sclerosis and, second, actually doing it, is that silent self-critic that makes anything less than perfect a problem. Perfectly imperfect. A diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis automatically makes us feel less than perfect and it’s never something we […]
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