Still in the midst of the flurry of the Christmas season, join us as we consider the roller-coaster of 2024. There has been A LOT GOING ON from taking a big podcast summer break to get through challenging personal stuff to then celebrating the unimaginable joy of freedom, achievement and community support. Take a few minutes over your seasonal holidays to reflect on your own year past & plan how YOU want your next few days, weeks and months to turn out.

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The MS Agency Podcast Summer Shorts: Access and Belonging

How much of your energy goes into planning for going out, university, getting to work, medical appointments, having a social life or making time for friends and family? How easy is it to navigate your society if you use a mobility aid or need more time? Access means belonging, no barriers to being part of your community. but so often, it's a daily battle that wear us down. What can we do? Listen in to Donna and Emma to reconnect with people who know what its like🫶🏾

Check out these resources

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music by Drop-It by Coma Media

Mental health MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/

Twitter/X @theMSAgency

Instagram:

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/

Listen for 15 minutes of pure power! We've had the envy, comparison and awful bitter feeling when we see other MSers doing SO MUCH BETTER than us. It's so unfair. How do we lift ourselves out of the icky swamp of comparison & forgetting OURSELVES??

Check out these resources

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music by Drop-It by Coma Media

Mental health MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/

Twitter/X @theMSAgency

Instagram:

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/

TLDR; Do people with MS 'deserve' support when their health condition leads to loss of mobility and ways to be involved in society?

“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.” Aneurin Bevan, Minister for Health Post-war Britain

Do people with MS 'deserve' support when their health condition leads to loss of mobility and ways to be involved in society? Who pays the price for a society where illness puts people to the wayside? This episode is a bit gross as we discuss people's worth by their functionality. 🤮

Check out these resources

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music

Drop-It by Coma Media

Twitter@theMSAgency

Insta

@donna_nahal

@emmaj_rogan

Change is not always a good thing when it comes to Multiple Sclerosis. When people say things get easier with time, for some it's just that that grief gets smaller and other things take over the space. We are forced to find another way, adapt to find a way through. Today, it's losing out on the nice things because the struggle was too much.

Resources

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music for The MS Agency Podcast

Drop-It by Coma Media https://www.patreon.com/yuriisemchyshyn

Mental health organisation MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/

Mental health organisation MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/

Contact The MS Agency on Twitter/X @theMSAgency

Instagram:

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/

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How was it for you? Dating has never been so easy, one swipe, one ping and you're connected. Right? RIGHT?

We discover the perils mixed in with the pearls. We're on a mission to have conversations that connect with you, our listeners and that matter to people with MS. Today Emma and Donna are getting into the fairytales, tearing them apart and putting their own ending so they match THIS modern dating world. Join us to discover your knight in shining armour!

Check out these resources

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music for The MS Agency Podcast

Drop-It by Coma Media https://www.patreon.com/yuriisemchyshyn

Mental health organisation MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/

Contact The MS Agency on Twitter/X @theMSAgency

Instagram:

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

We all know what it’s like to be told NO- we want IT EVEN MORE!!

MS is like a big "NO" to life’s adventures, a party pooper- Lights on, music off and telling everyone to go home. How do we nurture and repair our mental health and wellbeing after diagnosis? And what about the day to day stuff?

In this episode we are joined by Dr Yolanda Higueras, a Neuropsychologist based in the Department of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain and Department of Cognitive Processes and Speech Therapy, School of Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

We learn together about discernment, some tips on the information we need to know NOW, navigating the fall-out from breaking down & rebuilding your life 🫶🏾

EMSP https://emsp.org/

MSIF https://www.msif.org/

Instagram

Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

Twitter/X

@TheMSAgencyPod

#TheMSAgencyPodcast

In today's episode you're going to learn about finding the small points of joy in your day.

Just what is it about talking with others that can make us feel better? And what is the difference between being isolated and taking some space? From Dr Judith Butler's Points of Joy to the depths of sadness in isolation to those wonderous times when we find a place to rest, peace in the company of people who accept us for who we are.

Donna Nahal and Emma Rogan talk about power of sharing your story and how, when we gain understanding from others, somehow it soothes some of the pain, of the struggle of living with MS.

MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/

European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/

Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/

Music for The MS Agency Podcast

Drop-It by Coma Media https://www.patreon.com/yuriisemchyshyn.

Follow us on Twitter/X @TheMSAgencyPod

Instagram: Emmaj_Rogan and @donna_nahal

May 30th is World MS Day 🫶🏽- a day of solidarity for the worldwide MS community.

This year the theme is 'My Diagnosis'. Being diagnosed is a moment in time that people with MS seem to either vividly recall or blur out. This episode we're talking through the issues, the impact of diagnosis and going into the practical ways to deal with the upheaval.

Here is a list of MS organisations across the world in the MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/about-us/our-members/

The European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/

Mental health organisation MIND has some great information for anyone dealing with mental health problems https://www.mind.org.uk/

Contact The MS Agency on Twitter/X @theMSAgency

Instagram:

Donna Nahal @donna_nahal

Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/

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