Before you start cursing me as some kind of insensitive jerk, take a deep breath, and put that defensive judgment aside. I mean it with all the love and sensitivity in the world. Stand up straight. It’s a great way to begin your day, and every time you transfer or move location. It doesn’t really matter if you are fully able bodied, or wheelchair bound. Place your feet firmly on the ground – feel the connection through your feet, up your legs to your butt – activating all the

On a recent trip to San Francisco for the annual IFM conference, I ran into Dr. Terry Wahls as we were both shopping in Whole Foods. For those of you who still wonder if there is truly a drug-free option on their road to recovery, and whether ‘recovery’ is a concept that you can even entertain if you have a diagnosis of MS, Dr. Wahls has definitely become an example of just what is possible. When I asked her how she was doing, she told me that she had run around the block for

Do you remember coming down the hall in your jammies when you were young and that was the first thing out of our mouth – do you still ask you wife or husband? Or are you just so frustrated you have no idea what to eat. What is a gluten-free, grain-free, dairy and legume free, breakfast that is not high in animal saturated fats (like bacon or sausage), honours your food sensitivities, feeds your mitochondria (super important) , is high in fibre, nutrient dense, rich in omega 3

The gastrointestinal tract may not seem like the most obvious player in multiple sclerosis, but research—and clinical experience—suggest otherwise. As someone who’s been living with MS since 1985 and supporting others on this path since 2002, I can tell you: what happens in the gut doesn’t stay in the gut. And when it comes to the foods we eat, especially genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and gluten, we need to pay close attention. Let’s talk about why this matters. Becau

Working with the breath is a simple, quick and highly effective way to begin your foray into the new medicine that connects what goes on in our mind with what goes on in our body – and vice versa. Deep breathing provides measurable results in down regulating the stress response (sympathetic nervous system) to put us firmly in the relaxation response (parasympathetic nervous system) which is where our bodies can work on coming closer to a point of balance – where healing happe