Are you running of healthy things to snack on in your Multiple Sclerosis diet makeover? Getting closer to that bag of chips or have you already fallen in? Don’t fret! Here is one of my favourite snacks that keeps my sweet tooth happy and lots of good fats and protein. Make a big batch and keep them in the freezer Ingredients: ½ cup sunflower seeds and/or pumpkin seeds ½ cup sesame seeds or hemp hearts ¼ cup honey, or swerve, molasses etc. (optional) ½ cup nut butter (almond w

While the Internet has made “binge watching” a fairly common past time, it definitely comes with it’s consequences! At the top of the list is the impact of watching for 2+hours on sleep. SLEEP. The most important aspect of healing! It also takes a mental/emotional toll. It is a HUGE distraction and addiction! Now, wanting a distraction for a short period of time is not a problem but when that distraction becomes an escape for hours on end it definitely takes away from being p

Ouch! Have you ever noticed that by the end of the day your feet ache – or are even down right painful? Or is foot pain something you deal with on a daily basis? MS foot pain can be muscular in nature, it can be the result of spasm or it can just be nerve pain. Sometimes it can make the heels ache, sometimes it is in the sole and arch of the foot like a plantar fasciitis and it can even be be a dull ache it the toes. Over the years I have tried many things for my own aching f

It looks like spring is trying to nudge its way in – it really does – brilliant sunshine here in southern Ontario. Overall people’s moods are up but just when you want to step out into the warmth that should accompany that sunshine – POW – there it is again…the cold. Do you know that Spring is known as a time of increased MS diagnoses and relapses? Brain lesions (as shown on MRI) are 2-3x higher from March -August. Think about it, an unpredictable health condition that is inc

It was some time ago that I realized that health, and healing, and recovery and everyday life maintenance were much more than searching for an external answer and following whatever the crowd was doing. That at the end of the day, beyond the papers and studies, the prescriptions, supplements and diet – the single most powerful resource on my journey to live an extraordinary life despite the diagnosis of MS, was just me. Me and the thoughts, patterns and behaviours that kept r