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When you live with MS you can build pathways in your brain that connect you with joy. You can change your life energy. It starts by finding joy and hidden places.

Finding Joy in Hidden Places While Living with MS

Often, when you think of your life with MS, do you equate that with struggle, frustration or discouragement?

These are the kind of words, the emotions that come to mind when people often think of MS in their daily life. The reality is these words then become connected with multiple sclerosis. What we want is we want to connect other words also with MS; like courage, curiosity, tenacity and resilience, the power words.

I remember the last time I was at my sweetie's family cottage, there’s a grassy backyard with beautiful yellow and red flowers popping up. In the wild garden are raspberry...

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Jen DeTracey shares what she does about MS fatigue and what you can do too. This includes seven ways that she manages fatigue for multiple sclerosis.

How I Deal with MS Fatigue in 7 Ways

I'm going to share what I do about MS fatigue and what you can do too with seven ways that I manage fatigue.

Here's why we MSers burn energy faster. This information comes from Dr. Timothy West. It comes down to inflammation with the demyelination in the brain. This is when the MS in the brain attacks the coating on the wires (myelin). It chips or breaks the myelin sheath.

As a result we burn more energy to do the same tasks that people that don't have MS. The fact is that 80% of people living with MS have some sort of fatigue.

Even when we're resting burn more energy, more sugar than those that don't live with MS. Very...

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Welcome to the MS Simple Meditation Technique. Jen DeTracey walks you through the steps and the benefits of meditation she's been since living with MS.

MS Simple Meditation Technique

Welcome to my MS Simple Meditation Technique. I'm going to walk you through the steps and talk about the benefits of meditation as well as my journey with meditation since living with MS.

I actually was doing it long before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. However, when I came home from the hospital and my diagnosis, I was a big, hot mess. I had never been really consistent about meditation before living with MS. So for me, I had that big question, mark. You ever had that? The big question mark saying, like, where is my life at now? It's just horrible.

I don't know what I'm going to do. The end of the world is coming....

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Jen DeTracey shares her experience with having a lumbar puncture. What happened for her afterwards. This video and blog below also share the Don't and Dos that are important to follow to have the best recovery from this procedure. 

MS Lumbar Puncture Procedure – Don’ts and Do’s

Let's talk about the MS lumbar puncture procedure and the do's and the don'ts.

Note: I am not a doctor or medical professional, I'm sharing my own experience as a woman that lives with MS and the research I have conducted.

The combination of the lumbar puncture and the MRI are the golden standard to determine whether you are living with MS or not. However,  lumbar puncture results will only show up for 85 to 95% of all people that live with MS. It doesn't always show up on the lumbar puncture report...

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Jen DeTracey shares 5 key methods plus bonus tips on how to manage heat for MS so  you can fall asleep at night. These are methods she using during the summer months. Jen also shares research on how heat causes brain inflammation. 

Manage Heat for MS so You Can Sleep Best

Let's talk about managing heat for MS, so that you can sleep your best. I'm going to share a five methods, but before I do, let's look at the concept that managing heat for MS is an inside job. Now, what do I mean by that?

Well, I'm talking about the penthouse suite, your head, keeping it cool and the first floor, your feet, keeping them cool.

Read this post all the way until the end because I'm going to share bonus tips!

I have a feeling that heat can cause inflammation of the brain so I did a little digging and here's what...

This is episode one of the Striving to Thrive Podcast [Women with MS].  Jen DeTracey tells her story about dealing with loss and MS. Then she shares a six step process on how to move through loss while living with Multiple Sclerosis. 

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6 Step Process - How to Deal with Loss and Letting Go [with MS]

1. Recognize the loss
2. Identify the feelings that arise. Allowing yourself to feel them fully.
3. Embracing the reality. i.e. no longer able to run
4. Accept the loss or change knowing, you don't have to like it
5. Asking what is possible instead? Inviting other ideas, option and alternatives?
6. Giving your brain the opportunity to provide you the answers.

Full Transcript

This is the women's Striving to Thrive with MS Podcast. And I'm Jen, DeTracey the founder of Women Thriving with MS. And today I'm going to tell you a story about how I've dealt with loss, as well as share with you a...