Welcome to My MS Podcast. Today, I’m opening up about what it really means to be newly diagnosed with MS. This isn’t another generic medical rundown; it’s an unfiltered, heart-to-heart conversation about the raw truths and emotions that come with hearing those life-altering words. Whether you’ve been diagnosed days ago or you’re supporting someone who […]

Apple Podcasts | Spotify  What does it mean to be healthy, now that you have MS? If you can’t be cured, can you even be healthy? This was something I personally struggled with because when I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I was a nutrition coach, yoga instructor, and personal trainer. I should have been the picture […]

  In my pervious post, Which is the Right Diet for Autoimmune Disease, we talked about which is the “right” diet to follow for autoimmune disease. If you didn’t read it, definitely check it out because it helps guide you through the process of which is right for YOU. Today, I want to share with […]

I received my official diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis on July 7, 2016. On August 3, 2016 I was on a plane out to Iowa to attend the Wahls Seminar. Dr. Terry Wahls a physician who reversed her progressive multiple sclerosis through diet and lifestyle. She was holding a conference to share her protocol and I […]

If you’ve been newly diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, you’re probably sitting there thinking… what just happened to my life? Your mind is racing – Googling MS symptoms, progression, diet, treatment – trying to make sense of it all… and somehow ending up with even more questions than answers. An MS diagnosis is not easy. I […]

The road to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis may have come in a whirlwind of a day or at the end of long, agonizing years. The destination is all the same – a mysterious, unpredictable and unseen disease. When I received my diagnosis Thursday, July 7, 2016, I didn’t know a thing about multiple sclerosis. […]

We all wish we had that one person when we were first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The one who understood exactly what we were feeling. Someone who could offer real-life advice, not just the clinical version you get from your doctor. When I was newly diagnosed, I searched everywhere for her. But no one showed […]

At 8:30 pm on New Year’s Eve I was diagnosed with MS. Yep, we’re getting real-real, real-fast. You in? Because here’s the deal: I realized that from the outside, my life has looked like a series of half truths. And now I’m ready to get a little uncomfortable and share with you the whole truth. […]

When I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016, my thoughts were all over the place. I worried about every decision I made regarding treatment. I worried about the future and whether the worst-case scenarios would come true. And I worried day and night. Of course, all that worrying did not make things better. It […]

Let’s face it, managing finances or following a budget isn’t easy or enjoyable. But when the frequent and often unexpected medical expenses of a chronic illness start piling up, it quickly becomes clear that something needs to change. From co-pays and lab tests to MRIs and sky-high medication costs, the financial burden of living with […]

When I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016, one of the first books that I read was The Wahls Protocol. In it, Dr. Terry Wahls, shares her journey living with multiple sclerosis and how she used diet and lifestyle to reverse her symptoms of Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Today she has an update for […]