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Heroes are Selfish

February 23, 2010
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Heroes are Selfish

Today has been one of those ever-so-familiar days in which my ex-husband has chosen to go on an email rampage, attacking my character, threatening me and assuring me that my four-year-old daughter will know what a horrible person I am someday. In other words, it’s been one of those days when I need to dig in and remind myself that it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing with their energy or vibration, it only matters what I’m doing. If you want to be healthy, you need to be selfish. You need to put...

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Don’t Go There

February 22, 2010
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Don’t Go There

A few nights ago I was having dinner with my very wise friend Kiela. During the meal I was telling her about a heated disagreement I had with a friend, let’s call her Melissa. I was telling her the story, and when it came time to quote myself, I raised my voice, sped up my words, scrunched my face in anger and jutted my head forward to mimic the fast-paced and furious tone I had used with Melissa when we were arguing. Kiela listened quietly, and when I was finished, she said, “How do...

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The Era of The Leafy Green

February 22, 2010
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The Era of The Leafy Green

Leafy greens. The phrase haunts me. I know that if I want to be healthy, my diet should consist of as much as 70% organic leafy greens. This is commonly agreed upon advice according to well-educated nutritionists, anti-aging doctors, naturopaths, and the like. But I don’t like leafy greens. So I don’t eat them very often (at least not yet), even though I know I should. And so, the phrase haunts me at every meal. You see, every time you put something in your mouth, you are either increasing the health of your body,...

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Connection Heals

February 7, 2010
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Connection Heals

I woke up this morning with a pounding headache, which is very rare for me. The day before I had eaten half a bagel when I found myself at a cafe with a client, starving and light-headed,  having run out without breakfast. Poor planning on my part, and I forgot – as I sometimes do – the extent to which gluten reeks havoc in my body. Anyway, this morning as I woke up to the pain in my head I was immediately cranky. My 4-year-old daughter Gwendolyn, who was cuddling next to me, asked...

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My Big Toe

January 31, 2010
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My Big Toe

I never told anyone about my big toe. I don’t mean the nail, or the padded bottom, but right at the tip – the part that sometimes stubs itself on a wall, that part. Sometimes it feels like a thin needle is pricking that part, entering the skin, and that the needle is maybe hooked up to some electrical device that is sending a tiny shock through. It’ll happen a bunch of times inside of a minute, and then it’ll go away, but what remains is a strange awareness of the tip of my...

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The Story of Your Life

January 28, 2010
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The Story of Your Life

What were the stories that your parents and family told about you when you were young? What’s the very first story you can remember? Now, how did those stories make you feel about who you were in the world and what your life was about? Your Personal Mythology Everyone has a story about their life. It was informed when you were young by your family, and as you grew, you continued to create this story for yourself based on the experiences you had in the world. This story or stories (let’s call it your...

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Stress Is a Decision

January 24, 2010
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Stress Is a Decision

Stress. The perfect precursor to a relapse. If you are living with MS, then you have likely had the experience of a stressful situation leading to the onset of symptoms, or at worst, a full-on flare-up. Any neurologist will tell you that stress lands patients in his exam room every day. But the fact is we live in the world, not on a mountaintop, and it’s a modern, chaotic, fast-paced, unpredictable, ever-changing world at that. So how do you manage your stress so that you can stay healthy and symptom-free? Well let’s start by...

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Wanna Eat Well But Don’t Wanna Cook? Look No Further.

January 22, 2010
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Wanna Eat Well But Don’t Wanna Cook? Look No Further.

As far as I’m concerned, art is meant to be hung on walls, not digested. That’s why I spent the last ten years working as a professional photographer and not a chef. I had been quite happily avoiding kitchens my entire life…until I was diagnosed with MS. That’s when I learned that my recovery was hinging in large part on my ability to eat a really clean, healthy diet. And apparently, McDonald’s did not have food to grow a healthier me on their menu. Nor did most places. So, as fate would have it,...

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You Are What You Eat

January 19, 2010
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You Are What You Eat

I remember when I was a child, and naive. I thought if foods were in our supermarkets and served in our restaurants, it must mean they were okay to eat. I remember understanding that an apple might be a better choice than a bag of chips, but I didn’t understand that the bag of chips had chemicals in it that were absolutely not for human consumption. I didn’t know there was an FDA and I definitely didn’t know that this governing agency, employed with the task of protecting me from harmful foods, was failing...

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The MS Symptom Nobody Told You About

January 16, 2010
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The MS Symptom Nobody Told You About

It was July of 2007 and I was waiting for the most important results of my life. I had had my first MRI two days before I was scheduled to leave town for a training in California with Dr. Joseph Riggio. The results I was awaiting  would either confirm or not that I had Multiple Sclerosis, as my neurologist at the time suspected. As you can imagine, I was anxious to hear from her. I called before I left for my trip, but the results weren’t in yet. So I called the following day,...

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