Cognitive Symptom Help: Living with Brain Fog and Memory Problems
Cognitive symptoms can make everyday tasks surprisingly difficult. I share the practical strategies I use to manage brain fog, memory problems and concentration while living with MS.
Overcome Brain Fog: How Learning Spanish Helped Me
I decided to overcome brain fog by learning Spanish. Several years later, my Spanish may still need work, but the improvement in my mental clarity has made the experiment worthwhile.
Staying Positive: 7 Powerful Ways to Lift Your Mind
Staying positive isn’t about ignoring life’s challenges—it’s about learning to live alongside them. Through small habits, shifting perspective, and quiet resilience, it becomes possible to find steadiness even when life feels uncertain.
Spoonie: 7 Powerful Insights into Life with Limited Energy
Spoonie is a small word with a big story behind it. Born from a moment of human connection, it became a way to explain invisible limits without diagnosis or advice.
Fables in the Fog: 7 Inspiring Tales to Lift Your Spirit
When you live with MS long enough, everyday moments start to feel like fables in the fog — soft-edged, shifting, carrying messages you can’t always see until later. My mind…
Pruritus Capitis: 7 Gentle Insights for an Itching Scalp
Some discomforts shout.Others whisper until you can’t hear anything else. Pruritus capitis belongs firmly in the second camp. It doesn’t announce itself with drama. It doesn’t force a pause the…
Mental Fog: 7 Bright Ways a Blundering Bat Escapes Brain Fog
In this Fable in the Fog, a blundering bat loses his way in the mist, circling the same tree again and again. Like him, those living with mental fog in MS, long Covid, or anxiety find their thoughts looping without clarity. Yet the bat’s journey reminds us that pausing, resting, and listening can reveal the path forward when effort alone cannot.
MS Fatigue: 7 Powerful Insights from a Tortoise and a Teacup
MS fatigue is more than simple tiredness — it’s an invisible weight that drains both body and mind. In this fable of the tortoise and the teacup, we explore how fatigue from MS differs from regular exhaustion, what causes it, and gentle ways to manage daily life with resilience.
Optic Neuritis: 6 Bright Insights from the Lamp That Forgot to Glow
Optic neuritis can dim vision like a lamp that forgets to glow. This fable in the fog explores its causes, symptoms, and treatments, bringing light to an often unseen MS symptom.
MS Paraesthesia: 7 Powerful Truths from a Spoonful of Socks
A spoonful of socks and a dash of delight — it may sound like nonsense, yet it captures perfectly the strange reality of ms paraesthesia. For many people with multiple sclerosis, this altered sensation feels like tingling, numbness, or even relentless pins and needles. In this fable, we explore how these curious signals of the nervous system can shift from mild annoyance to meaningful teachers, reminding us that even the oddest sensations deserve attention. Just as the lamp forgot to glow and the blundering bat lost its way, here too is a story where symptoms whisper in riddles, offering both challenge and unexpected delight.