Category: The healing story
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The Victim or The Creator
There are many things that happen in our daily existence that are outside of our control. These experiences usually elicit some type of emotion. Think about your day so far. Have there been experiences that have altered your mood – either positively or negatively without you consciously choosing that emotion? When someone cuts you off…
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New Year, Same Me
As we get ready to bring in a new year, many of us take the time to reflect on the prior year and embrace the prospect of new beginnings/possibilities for the future. I have always used the new year to set goals for myself through resolutions. I quit smoking cigarettes on a new year, began…
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Body, Spirit & Mind
Someone contacted me recently, asking me to talk to a friend of theirs who is newly diagnosed with MS about the healing lifestyle I have embraced. I’ll be honest, I panicked at the thought because I wasn’t sure how to put into words the methods I am using/have tried. Pretty ironic considering I’ve spent the…
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From a Journey to a Lifestyle
According to Google, a journey is “the act of traveling from one place to another.” (This signifies that a journey has a destination and will eventually end.) When a journey is over, one normally returns to where they started. A lifestyle is defined as the way in which a person or group lives. When I…
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Fill Your Bucket
Since my last post (3 months ago) I have been dealing with a lot of negative emotions. I don’t know if starting therapy in March unearthed some things I need to deal with, if these feelings and thoughts stem from my MS and its constant battle against my body or what spurred this episode. I…
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Toxic Positivity
PSA: If you are offended by foul language, you probably want to skip this post. I have always smiled – a lot. Sometimes I don’t even realize it and my face just naturally goes to that position. Some people suffer from RBF (Resting Bitch Face). I guess I was blessed with RNF (Resting Nice Face).…
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Redefining Independence: My Journey with MS and Support
Learning to Ask for Help I’ve never given much thought to how I feel about asking for help—until recently. Probably because, before my disease progressed, I rarely had to ask. Or, more likely, I just didn’t ask even when I probably should have. Now, asking for help is an everyday—often many-times-a-day—occurrence. And even so, I…
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Finding Me Again: A Journey to Self-Love
On this Valentine’s Day, I feel it’s important to give love to myself. I’ve spent so much of my life trying to be who I thought everyone else wanted me to be—trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, a good wife, a good mother, a good employee…the list goes on.…
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Finding Source: A Personal Encounter with Unconditional Love
What Does It Mean to Be Connected to God? Throughout this blog, I often talk about God, Source, the Universe, and getting “connected.” But what does that actually mean—or feel like? The purpose of my journey, I believe, is to discover these truths for myself. And what a journey it has been. I am a…
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The Healing Power of Acceptance
Learning to Let Go: My Journey Toward Acceptance For the past 17 years, I’ve felt like I’ve been perpetually mourning because of Multiple Sclerosis. I’ve cycled through all the stages of grief at different points in my journey—except for the last one: acceptance. Each time a new symptom has appeared or I’ve lost another function,…