What if when your neurologist diagnosed you with MS, he handed you a book? The book contained 100 detailed profiles of MS patients who were unique, who defied the status quo, who believed deeply and fervently that they could get well, explored various healing modalities (many of them outside Western medicine’s approved treatments for...
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What would you do if you were 29 and found you only had a few years to live? Stephen Heywood was forced to ask himself this question when he was diagnosed with the nerve disease ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Yesterday I watched his heartbreaking but inspiring story in the documentary film So Much So...
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Recently I’ve received several comments that suggest that what I’m encouraging with this blog is “thinking positive” and that doing so will keep you asymptomatic. I’ve also been told that if I were more disabled than I am, my attitude would be different. People have said things to me like “Well I’ve been thinking...
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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...
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Two shoe salesmen were sent on a mission to Africa in the 1900s to find out if there was any opportunity for selling shoes. They wrote telegrams back to Manchester. One wrote “Situation hopeless! Stop! They don’t wear shoes!” The other one wrote “Glorious opportunity! They don’t have any shoes yet!” Now I’m sure...
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