ABOUT
I'm Mary Joan Cunningham and I created Thrive with MS. I started this site to share my journey and encourage others in transforming fear into empowerment surrounding any new health reality.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2014, I embrace both conventional medicine and complementary therapies. I'm on a journey, figuring things out, just like you. I've given myself this space to be candid and real. And if that can help others, yay.
I share resources and insights here to serve anyone facing a scary diagnosis.
We got this.
If you’re here for the first time, I suggest reading from the beginning (click here) but —hey, by all means — you do you and read however you want!
A very nice and concerned reader reached out to me a few months ago to ask how I was and wanted to make sure that the lack of posts wasn’t because i was sick.
I wrote him back but it also seems like a fair topic to mention on the blog that I haven’t blogged on for quite some time.
The shortest answer is...
Read MoreTheMighty.com asked me to write a note to a friend having a tough mental health day. Here's that post PLUS what I didn't include - my really truly frank opinions on how we can regain our brain health. Know this - it is absolutely possible to feel better. Read on and let me know your thoughts!
Read MoreLast week, being the week of the move from New York---a week of intense packing, extreme change---thoughts of mortality swirled. Surely because of fear, a deep, nearly hidden swirl that--when it swells--will pull anything and everything in along with it. And with it, I swirled in my mid-sleeping dreams….
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