Dealing with an incurable disease is an incredibly personal journey, and the best approach depends on your emotional, physical, and spiritual needs. Here are some key strategies that might help: 1. Accept and Adapt Acceptance doesn’t mean giving up—it means finding ways to live fully within your new reality. Focus on what you can control, […]

There’s a unique kind of grief that comes from being handed pain you didn’t cause. You didn’t make a bad choice. You didn’t ignore warning signs. You didn’t mess up. You just… got sick. Your body betrayed you before you ever had a chance to live the way you imagined. That kind of grief doesn’t […]

While doing research for my book More Person Than Patient, a woman in Great Britian living with multiple sclerosis shared something with me that hit so close to home, I could almost feel the echo in my own chest. She said: “The hardest emotional challenge—still, after all this time—is how the fear comes rushing back. […]

One of the things I’ve come to notice about caring for my health over the course of my life is that sometime . . . I just get tired of being the good girl. The one who follows the rules. The one who drinks the sparkling water and skips the wine. Who meditates in the […]