MS.UNDERSTOOD

Happy New Year! Are you wanting to make positive changes in your life this year but don't know where to start? Join me as I talk with Lacey from the Center For Mind Body Medicine. We'll discuss the work she does to lead a wide variety of groups through powerful experiences that are truly life changing. She'll share a few with you here that you can try on your own immediately! You'll also hear about a special opportunity for YOU to learn from Lacey in a virtual group setting with other folks living with MS. Take a listen - and begin your journey to a new mindset.

The end of the calendar year is a natural time for self-reflection, and yet, so many of us struggle with following through on our New Year's resolutions. In this episode, I'll take you on a powerful reflective journey to look back at all that we experienced this year - and then we'll plan to move forward into the new year with more clarity and focused intention as far as how we can live our best lives with MS. Carve out of your day a gift of time for yourself - grab a notebook, a hot cup of tea, and take a reflective journey with me as we exercise our reflective muscle together. You won't regret it!

Join us this week to learn about TRUE Medicine, the non-profit MS health education virtual program that I've been building with Dr. Susan Payrovi and Ann Marie Trione. In this episode you'll learn more about how TRUE Medicine came to be, our unique approach to healing, and how YOU can participate in our FREE pilot program starting January 2021. Space is limited - register soon!

Join us, while we learn about the many ways hypnosis can help us learn to better manage our MS symptoms - or really - ANYTHING we want to change in our lives. For this episode, we're joined by an extraordinary woman, Sonjali Di Guida, who will share her own experience of healing through hypnosis, as well as her journey to becoming a hypnotist to help others!

In this episode, we'll look at what's recommended in terms of exercise and movement for those of us living with MS, as well as a wide range of options for exercise programs and resources, so we can find what works best for each of us. We'll also hear from guests Karen & James about the awesome MS Gym program and how it has helped them both on their unique MS journeys.

Want to learn about ways Essential Oils can help us live well with MS? In this episode, we learn a bit about the history of essential oils, how to identify high quality essential oils, basic ways to use essential oils - and most importantly, specific oils we can use to help us better manage our most common MS symptoms.

In this episode, we take a look at the most common MS symptoms that are caused or exacerbated by colder weather. We'll look at a wide range of strategies to combat these winter woes as well as recent research regarding seasonal patterns of MS activity.

In this episode, we'll look at how to best support someone you love who is living with MS. Do YOU have MS and don't feel like you're receiving the support you need? Or, are you someone who loves someone with MS and either wants to learn more ways you can support them - OR don't understand why your loved one doesn't respond well to your current attempts to support? This episode is for ALL of us - and shares many ways we can work together as a team to best support each other through the challenge of living with MS.

In this episode, we'll look at everything sleep! We'll explore the many benefits of sleep, and the most common sleep disorders. I'll share many tips for establishing healthy sleep routines. We'll also look at something called revenge bedtime procrastination and mantras as a tool for better sleep. Are you ready to learn how to maximize your restorative sleep for healing? Take a listen!

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Payrovi about the best Nutritional practices for those of us living with MS. We'll talk about WHY nutrition is the first thing to consider working on to better manage our symptoms, what she believes are the most important strategies to implement, and how important it is for each of us to listen to our body when we try a new way of eating. We'll also talk about food sensitivities, supplementation, and some great strategies for making eating healthy sustainable over time.