What Recovery Means to Me Subscribe Sometimes other people with Functional Neurological Disorder will ask me, “So, are you back to 100% then?”. If that means I am back to the hard-driving, multi-tasking, “Wonder Woman” of my pre-FND days, then …
Subscribe Self-acceptance One of the things I love about blogging is that I have the freedom to change my mind. If I wrote a book, and I still might, once it’s out there, you can’t take back your words. With …
Subscribe Stop the Stigma My heart is hurting. This has been a rough couple of weeks in the media for Functional Neurological Disorder. On the one hand, at least FND has gotten some long overdue recognition. Unfortunately, it feels like …
The Zone of Healthy Function Subscribe With Functional Neurological Disorder, the normal function of our nervous system gets derailed. Instead of the usual normal automatic movements most people take for granted, we end up either losing movement, such as paralysis …
Energize your Brain Subscribe As I have learned to live with my Functional Neurological Disorder, I’ve discovered the importance of balancing and budgeting my energy. Do I have it all figured out? Not hardly! However, I am getting better at …
Connect with Nature Subscribe Nature has always spoken to me, from the time I was a little girl playing in the creek and catching tadpoles. There is something about the fresh air and being outdoors that just makes my heart …
Subscribe The Incredible Power of your Mind Do you believe that your mind has the power to heal you? Research suggests that it does.
Subscribe Connecting with our Emotions Trigger warning! -Child abuse discussed, although sensitively and not in great detail. If you think this may be a difficult article for you to read, you may want to read it during an appointment with …
The Struggle to Accept the Diagnosis of FND Subscribe Way back in 2000 when my neurological problems began, I was shocked when the horrible, exhausting, uncontrollable seizures I was experiencing were written off as a psychological problem. The first time …
Subscribe A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day When my kids were young, one of our favorite books was Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. In this book, a little boy named …