12 Days of Christmas Self-Care

I’ve been listening to Christmas music a lot the last few weeks – I do wait until after Thanksgiving, but then it’s pretty much all I listen to for the month. Hearing a few versions of The 12 Days of Christmas made me think about a little extra care that I’m going to do starting […]

Combatting Holiday and MS Stress

It’s officially a week into the 2023 holiday season. While I have seen some heartwarming stories about giving and the true spirit of the holiday and humankind, I also am a little amazed at how many stories I am seeing about stress and the fact that people are so stressed out that they can’t enjoy […]

Advocacy in Action

When others learn that I am a MS Activist, the question I often get is what kind of work do you do? For me, it’s taking action to highlight a wide range of issues that impact people with multiple sclerosis and their families. One of those ways is through writing opinion pieces and getting them […]

The Oxygen Mask Rule

Traveling can be a slog whether you have MS or not. Last week I flew a few times, traveling to a couple of different cities – Madison WI and Washington DC. The airplane safety run-through at the beginning of the flight stuck with me more while I was traveling this time than others, or so […]

Mindful Thoughts about Moving MS

Welcome! It’s taken me a year since starting my Zoom classes – which I originally called MindOverMS – to get this web site off the ground. It’s kind of scary to push publish and put yourself out there, but here it goes! I live with multiple sclerosis, and was diagnosed in 1998. Right now, the […]