Connect with Nature
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 …
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The Incredible Power of your Mind
Subscribe The Incredible Power of your Mind Do you believe that your mind has the power to heal you? Research suggests that it does.
Connecting with our Emotions
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 a Diagnosis of FND
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 …
A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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 …
Making Peace with Confusion
I’m a person who really likes to understand things. It’s why I majored in science in college. If you don’t have a good explanation for what you are saying, I probably won’t believe you. I’m a hard core skeptic. Enter …
Barriers to Accepting the Diagnosis
With most illnesses, we don’t have much of a problem believing the diagnosis we are given. Say you have a sore throat and a fever. You go to the doctor, where you are examined and given a throat culture. The …
The Question of Psychology
Does the word “psychological” make you angry and frustrated? So many people I have met with FND are very put off by any suggestion of a psychological component to this disorder. I’d like to try to change some of the …
Talking to Myself
We all talk to ourselves, but we aren’t always aware of it. It can be really helpful to become more aware of the things that we say to ourselves and change our self-talk to words that are more affirming, confidence-building, …
Detour
Taking a Detour Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam? Frustrating, isn’t it? You know where you want to go, but the road in front of you won’t let you get there. Sometimes that’s how my brain feels …