A Day without Intention is a Day Wasted
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To create an intention is to clarify what you want. ...What you want to achieve in a yoga class, in a day, in a lifetime.
This act is deceptively simple but deeply powerful.
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RISE ABOVE ANY DIAGNOSIS
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!
Shifts in perception that rock our world.
/There are moments that completely rock your world, turn it upside down and spit you out with a new perception forevermore.
Like when you find out that the doctors who you entrust with your care don't actually know everything about the human body. (Like you so hoped they would.)
But similarly, there's a shift in perception that can empower us. Change our world. Change our lives...
Read MoreReversing Brain Damage Like a Boss
/I hope the more I share my story, the more that everyone will realize that we can reverse damage to the body.
I did.
Read MoreBody: Get those endorphins going!
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Moving the body helps our bodies and brain.
Because when we move, endorphins (neuropeptides that are natural pain and stress relievers... I like to call them magic happy juice) start to flow through us once we do.
Here's how I got back into working out after taking a year off after my MS diagnosis. (Complete with silly video.)
Read MoreMS Mental Health Research Study Results- Good Stuff!
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Two studies show that simple lifestyle factors make a big difference in your ability to rock with MS.
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Health Update: 10 Months Living with MS
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The most common question I get is, How are you feeling?
Thank you for asking! And with that in mind, here's my video health update.
Read MorePress: Thrive with MS Q&A on MOGUL
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My thanks to the lovely and talented, Mollie Binkley for her write up about my mission, and how it can, and will!, help others.
Read More4 Reasons I Give Thanks for My MS Diagnosis
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It might seem pretty crazy, but I give thanks for my MS diagnosis. Here's why….
Read MoreWhen in doubt, dance.
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Shake it to this high vibe playlist.
Cue this baby when you need an infusion of good vibes, and share with anyone who could use some bright energy in their day. Click here to listen in Spotify or copy the songs into your favorite music machine.
Read MoreI'm Paying Off Energy Debt -AKA- How To Start Thriving with MS
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I feel tired. Not just superficially, but deep in my bones. But it's going to be okay...
Read MoreFiring My Doctor
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Highlights
- "A diagnosis does not define who we are."
- "We can take control of our health and be the living cure, but a "cure" might not look like we thought it would."
- "There are so many health improvements that occur in the hands of the patients themselves."
- "Let's use a diagnosis to shift the course of our lives."
- "The MS of the past is not the MS of our future."
My 4 New Health Rules for Thriving with MS
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File this under: getting out of my own head and doing the REAL work to support my body and soul...
Feeding. Eating. Nourishing. It's pretty much the most important thing ever and yet I feel like I got by for many years by not doing it very well.
Read MoreThoughts of Death and Unraveling Fear
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Last 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….
Read MoreMy First Note to Friends About My Diagnosis (The Creation of Thrive with MS)
/So this happened...
I was just diagnosed with MS. Two months ago. Shocker.
I didn't expect it and didn't know a thing about MS, other than something about wheelchairs.
The morning I woke up for kundalini meditation training was the beginning of a full-on nerve freak out that, within two weeks, left me unable to walk and see straight, and rendered half of my face numb.
Read MoreMy MS Diagnosis Story
/My MS diagnosis story, and the tools I used to transform fear into love.
I hope it can help others.