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The good news first: one month after my blood clot and surgery… I’m officially clot-free! Enormous relief doesn’t even begin to cover it. The fatigue is still hanging around, though I can’t tell if that’s courtesy of the clot or just my ever-lingering MS. Either way, I’ve been given the green light to slowly ease back into normal activity, as long as I listen to (and respect) the very loud and very opinionated voice of my body. So while the blood clot has taken a well-earned

What does the future hold for me? It's what many of us with MS ask ourselves. It’s a terrifying question, and it’s the one that’s been clouding my vision.

Think you’re the only one backsliding on your “new-me” routine? Same here—until I realized awareness (not perfection) is the real power move. Tap in for a perfectly imperfect progress report.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them...

I had a whole “get-back-in-the-arena, mind-over-matter” post ready for Monday—bootstraps, grit, the works. But when the alarm went off, I...

It isn’t the mountain that changes; it’s our perspective. Our blessings—quiet and steadfast—are always there, even when they slip from view behind life’s dense canopy.

There will be setbacks and days you’ll want to slip out of the arena. Stay. And when you’re standing on the cliff’s edge, remember: that’s where you learn to fly.

The truth is I’m not always brave, I’m not always smiling, and some days the weight of this disease (and life) pins me to the mat.