Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis

Welcome the Living Well with MS podcast, and we are joined by Erika North. Erika was diagnosed with MS in 2008 and is now happy to put a spotlight on the trials and tribulations her condition brings, with a trademark sense of humor listeners of the BBC will be familiar with!  Topics and timestamps: 01:52 Could you tell us a bit about yourself?  03:10 Can you tell us a bit about your own MS journey...

Welcome to the Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we welcome Roy Bartlett as our guest! Roy is the ambassador of the Aukland, New Zeland circle and has lived with MS since 1988.   Topics and timestamps: 01:16 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, and your life?  03:30 When were you diagnosed with MS and how long have you been following the Overcoming MS Program?  14:47 What is...

Welcome to the Living Well with MS podcast, where we are joined by Jack McNulty. Jack has followed the Overcoming MS lifestyle since 2009. He has actively worked on providing recipes and information to the Overcoming MS website and was the contributing editor to the Overcoming MS cookbook. Jack is currently operating his own subscription-based website providing instruction and recipes supporting a...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we welcome Rowan Baker as our guest! Rowan is a UK-based nurse who follows the Overcoming MS Program. She enjoys yoga and running, crafting and cooking up Overcoming MS feasts. She’s currently training towards a half marathon, on the back of a long-distance walk for an MS charity last year. She has written a number of blogs for Overcoming MS.  Top...

Welcome to  the Living Well with MS podcast, where we are joined by Trevor Wicken. Trevor is the founder of The MS Gym, the largest and most comprehensive platform for movement and mindset training for those living with MS and other neurological conditions. Since its inception, it has transformed the lives of thousands of people throughout the world.  Topics and timestamps: 01:28 What is The MS Gy...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #8, where we turn the tables and welcome Geoff Allix as our guest!   As you now know, we decided to do something a little different in expanding the range of content we produce here at Living Well with MS. To honor the community that forms the beating heart of Overcoming MS, this special series called Coffee Break features short interviews with members o...

On this episode of the Living Well with MS podcast, we welcome Grazina Berry the new CEO of Overcoming MS. Grazina is passionate, driven and committed to making a positive difference to the lives of all communities and helping Overcoming MS achieve its goal to reach everyone diagnosed with MS around the world.  Topics and timestamps: 01:10 Can you tell our audience and the Overcoming MS community...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we welcome Trishna Bharadia as our guest! Trishna is an award-winning patient advocate who lives with multiple sclerosis and was featured on Strictly Come Dancing.  Topics and timestamps: 01:41 Can you tell us a little about yourself and your personal experience with MS?  06:48 What does your work as a health advocate and patient engagement consul...

Welcome to Living Well with MS podcast. We’re proud to welcome back Dr Brandon Beaber to the guest seat. Dr. Beaber is an American neurologist specialising in multiple sclerosis. He offers a neurologist’s point of view on the Overcoming MS program, and how to achieve better health through lifestyle intervention approaches.  Topics and timestamps: 01:25 What’s your specific clinical philosophy as a...

Welcome to the latest Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we travel to Berlin to join Overcoming MS community member Johanna Lahr to hear her story. Johanna is an admin of the popular Overcoming MS Lifestyle Support Facebook group and an ambassador for her local circle.  Topics and timestamps: 01:30 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, your life, where you live and anything ab...

Welcome to Living Well with MS podcast, where we are joined by Alison Potts. Alison is a meditation coach, wellbeing mentor, meditation teacher-trainer writer and teacher in self-care, meditation, and wellness. Largely due to her own healing journey with MS, she is passionate about teaching the power of cherishing our individuality and intuition, sharing practices to connection to our innate state...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where straight from Cornwall, U.K. we welcome Sean Kressinger as our guest! Topics and timestamps: 01:14 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, your life, where you live and anything about yourself, you’d like to share?  02:09 When were you diagnosed with MS and how long have you been following the Overcoming MS 7 Step Program?  03:42 Can...

Welcome to Living Well with MS podcast, where we are joined by Vickie Hadge, who serves as an Overcoming MS Ambassador in Connecticut. She was officially diagnosed with MS in 2017 but had her first discernible symptoms in 2011. She lives well with her MS by following the Overcoming MS program and encourages others to do the same through her Overcoming MS Circle.    Topics and timestamps: 01:37 Ple...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we welcome community member Natalie Cooper as our guest!   Topics and timestamps: 01:11 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, your life, where you live and anything about yourself, you’d like to share?  03:58 When were you diagnosed with MS and how long have you been following the Overcoming MS 7 Step Program?  06:56 What is your f...

Welcome to the Living Well with MS podcast, and we are joined by Caroline Clarke, who is a trustee of Overcoming MS and the 2020 President of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the representative body for finance staff in healthcare.  Topics and timestamps: 01:34 Why did you choose to follow Overcoming MS and your MS journey?  09:31 So how does having a high-profile job or hig...

Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we travel to the San Francisco Bay Area to welcome Sarah T as our guest!   Topics and timestamps: 01:23 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, your life, where you live and anything about yourself, you’d like to share?  02:11 When were you diagnosed with MS and how long have you been following the Overcoming MS Program?  05:45 What...

On this episode of Living Well with MS podcast, and we are joined by Kim Venter, a trained teacher, professional psychological counsellor, and nutritional consultant who thoroughly enjoys working with people and helping them overcome various challenges in their lives. Kim is particularly interested in Health Psychology, which is to say exploring the impact on the mind of what is going in the body....

Welcome to our second installment of Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we welcome Vicky Argyle as our guest! As you now know, we decided to do something a little different in expanding the range of content we produce here at Living Well with MS. To honor the community that forms the beating heart of Overcoming MS, this special series called Coffee Break features short interviews with members...

Bio:   Mari L. McCarthy is an award-winning and international bestselling author whose books Journaling Power: How to Create the Happy, Healthy Life You Want to Live and Heal Yourself with Journaling Power have introduced people around the world to the power journaling has to help heal the body. After losing feeling and function in the right side of her body in 1998, Mari was diagnosed with MS. Un...

Welcome to our first Living Well with MS Coffee Break episode! We decided to do something a little different in expanding the range of content we produce here at Living Well with MS. Since our community forms the beating heart of Overcoming MS, we are commencing this special series called Coffee Break, which features short interviews with members of the OMS community talking about their personal j...

Whether one has MS or not, the world is going through an unprecedented and difficult time. So, we have created this special episode of Living Well with MS, featuring Dr. Jonathan White , to better understand the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic and how it affects people with MS. Please be aware that knowledge of this virus is changing rapidly, and we are presenting the best information that we h...

We all know that exercise is a key component of healthy living, and particularly important too if you have MS, which is why it plays such a prominent role as one of the steps of the OMS 7 Step Recovery Program . But did you know that when you’re exercising your body, you’re working out your nervous system as well? Our guest on this episode of Living Well with MS, Dr. Gretchen Hawley, will explain...

Living Well with MS is proud to welcome back Dr. Aaron Boster , an Ohio-based neurologist specializing in MS, whom we featured last season on an episode exploring how to make the right medication choices when you have MS. Now we tap his expertise to help us understand the complicated calculus of how the lifestyle choices we make might impact MS and our overall health. We are surrounded by temptati...

Thanks for listening in to our second season’s second episode. Deuces are wild, so we are breaking with our usual format and setting the stage for two podcasters to have a frank and intimate conversation about their respective journeys. Joining Geoff for this episode is the talented Jessie Ace – blogger, illustrator and host of the DISabled to ENabled, a podcast that aims to inspire people living...

We are pleased to welcome Dr Valter Longo to this episode of Living Well with MS. Dr Longo is the scientist behind the Fasting Mimicking Diet. He is a bio-gerontologist and  cell biologist who serves as a professor at the  USC Davis School of Gerontology  and as the director of the  USC Longevity Institute . He is the creator of the fasting-mimicking diet, a program that claims to mimic the effect...