At 3 AM on a July 2012 morning, I lay helpless on an emergency room cot, unable to experience any emotion other than fear and the physical sensations that racked my body. My extreme levels of anxiety did not cease; my body showed me no mercy, perhaps because my racing mind did not extend that courtesy to […]
“There is this moment where I was in the middle of New York City, I really imagined myself as the person at the cocktail party where somebody would say there is Kate Milliken in the corner. She’s single, she’s 35. It just didn’t work out for poor Kate.” Kate Milliken, Founder and CEO of MyCounterpane.com, […]
“Why is it that dad keeps saying that you’re my daughter?” reflects a stunned Stephanie Levenston about a conversation with her mother Joanie. Dementia changes relationships. All of a sudden relationship bonds as strong as mother and daughter are frayed in the dementia disconnect. Tuning in to this podcast will give you strategies for communicating […]
“How you deal affects how you heal” is the mantra that author Yvonne DeSousa has lived by since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. During our podcast, Yvonne deSousa’s reveals details of her multiple sclerosis diagnosis and how it motivated her to write her memoir, MS Madness: A Giggle More, Cry Less Story of Multiple Sclerosis. My […]
“You cannot have a physically fit body, if you don’t have a physically fit mind,” author David Lyons advised when asked about going back to the gym after injury and illness. David discusses strategies and techniques for getting back into a fitness routine safely and shares resources to help in the decision-making process. If you […]
“Bear with me – I plan to be moody, cold, indifferent and angry, and oh yeah, occasionally friendly over the next six months as I adjust to this illness,” Dr. Rapaport declared as a strategy to talk to friends about being diagnosed. Learning to live with an illness is scary. Doing it alone is impossible. […]
“PTSD is an amputation of the soul. There is a certain way about you that is no longer there,” proclaims Marc Raciti in our emotional interview about living life with PTSD. In this interview Marc and Sonja Raciti discuss what it is like to live with PTSD and be the partner of someone living with […]
Have you or anyone that you know been diagnosed with oropharyngeal (head and neck) cancer? If so, you need to listen to author, Michael Becker, discuss his cancer journey. Michael shares his inspirational cancer journey, plus share his lessons on how to navigate the health system. This deeply personal story will motivate, educate and inspire […]