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Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis

Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis

25 Episodes • By Overcoming MS • www.overcomingms.org
Welcome to the Overcoming MS | Living Well with MS podcast. Our family of podcasts includes our flagship, Living Well with MS, where In each episode, your host Geoff Allix will explore a different aspect of the OMS Program in greater depth. Other programs in our podcast family include Coffee Break f ...more
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In conversation with Associate Professor Michelle O’Donoghue |S5E3
Welcome to Living Well with MS, the Overcoming MS po... more
Jan 25 2023 33m
Use Diet to Improve MS
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Webinar highlights from The Overcoming MS Handbook: Roadmap to Good Health | S5E2
Welcome to Living Well with MS, the Overcoming MS po... more
Jan 18 2023 54m
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Functional Medicine with Magic Barclay | S5E1
Welcome to Season 5 of Living Well with MS, where we... more
Jan 11 2023 31m
Using Essential Oils and Crystals for Healing
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Building Resilience with Dr Rachael Hunter | S4E67
  Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, G... more
Dec 21 2022 41m
Researching Multiple Sclerosis Treatments
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Disrupt Move and Transform – in Conversation with Kathy Chester | S4E66
Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, Geo... more
Dec 14 2022 25m
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Coffee Break #37 with Dave Jackman | S4E65
Welcome to Living Well with MS coffee break #37, whe... more
Nov 30 2022 47m
The Outcome of MS
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Introduction to Overcoming MS with Dr. Jonathan White (webinar highlights) | S4E64
Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, we ... more
Nov 16 2022 47m
Low Saturated Fat Diet for MS
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Ask Jack - Soups | S4E63
Welcome to your next “plating” of Ask Jack, featurin... more
Nov 2 2022 45m
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10 minutes with George: Learnings after following the program for years and the future | S4E62
Welcome to Living Well with MS. We are pleased to we... more
Oct 19 2022 14m
Living Well With MS
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10 mins with George: Defining ‘overcoming’ MS and ‘recovery’ | S4E61
Welcome to Living Well with MS. We are pleased to we... more
Oct 12 2022 11m
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10 minutes with George: The importance of mindset and support | S4E60
Welcome to the third episode in our short series '10... more
Oct 5 2022 13m
Exercising Three to Five Times a Week
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10 minutes with George: Exceptions to following the program | S4E59
Welcome to Living Well with MS. This is the second e... more
Sep 28 2022 12m
Chapter 1 2 mins
“Your health in 20 or 30 years’ time will reflect the whole range of things you've done and your daily activities over all that time. And that's true, in general, in any illness. The occasional slip up in that context is essentially mostly irrelevant.”
Chapter 2 2 mins
“If there's an inner struggle going on around [sticking to the program], then trying to get some help and understand what that struggle is about is useful... Is it related to not valuing oneself, not valuing one's health? [Or] because of perhaps the way we've been brought up? There are all sorts of different reasons why not placing yourself and your own health as important in your life would manifest in not doing everything that you can to try and stay well.”
Chapter 3 2 mins
“When partners came to the retreats, we would often find that their highly sceptical attitude at the beginning of the retreat was replaced with a total commitment by the end. Not only to support their partner but to do everything they could for their own health, because they would come to realise how important it is to stay well for themselves.”
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10 minutes with George: Getting started with Overcoming MS | S4E58
Welcome to Living Well with MS. We are pleased to we... more
Sep 21 2022 20m
Approaches to Optimal Health
Chapter 1 5 mins
“The OMS book is obviously a must-read. And that gives you the credibility and the science behind the whole program. This isn't something that has just occurred to me in the middle of the night or anything like that. It's taken quite a bit of work and a fair bit of time, and the right sort of background to understand the science to really put it together.”
Chapter 2 2 mins
“The whole basis of OMS isn't to tell people what to do. We've never, never sought to give rigid guidelines for people or anything like that. This is all about providing choices for people, choices [so] that they're able to look at the range of what's on offer and choose what's most appropriate for them. For some people, that's all of the program for some people, there will be parts that don't feel appropriate for them.”
Chapter 3 8 mins
“Quite apart from the health benefits, there are enormous benefits to one's whole life in terms of the insight aspect that comes with meditation practice, [and] the improvement in one's inner landscape and emotional life that that comes along with that. You develop and learn the skill of tolerating difficult thoughts and situations.”
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The 100th episode with Dr. Jonathan White | S4 E57 bonus
Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #36, whe... more
Sep 14 2022 29m
The Living Word With Ms. Podcast
Chapter 1 4 mins
“I've always thought of the main OMS book as being a textbook, almost like a reference guide. Whereas the, Overcoming MS Handbook is a lovely light and easy [book] that you could dip in and out of. I loved reading it and I picked up lots of tips. And it was great to hear from the community itself.”
Chapter 2 7 mins
“I think [the OMS charity] has been paradigm shifting and groundbreaking. That message of hope, of us giving people a sense of mastery. That the traditional description of this condition and how it affects people doesn't have to be that way through relatively simple things that you can do for yourself. And I think that [message] came at a time where it was so needed. In fact, now it's needed more than ever.”
Chapter 3 4 mins
“[The Overcoming MS Community] fills the bucket completely for me. It's been a wonderful privilege professionally, as well, to be able to spend some time with people, like myself, living with MS. And to hopefully give them a little bit of information, to clarify some things for them and to maybe steer them in the right direction. And then to see the amazing changes that they implement in their lives. It is so gratifying professionally to be able to help someone like that.”
Chapter 4 3 mins
“Dame Deborah James, who was a phenomenally passionate cancer campaigner, … sadly passed away in June, 2020. But her very last Twitter post....just spoke to me and I thought she's put this so beautifully. This is exactly how I feel about OMS [Overcoming MS] and MS generally. So I'm going to use her quote
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Calming the Chaos – in Conversation with Mattie Cummins | S4E57
Bio:   Mattie is a counselor, brain coach and CEO of... more
Aug 24 2022 20m
Chapter 1 1 min
“We do a mindfulness practice around breathing or visualization to calm down the brain so that you can then begin to, to hear what's happening in your brain so you can actually change the cognition.”
Chapter 2 3 mins
“There are all these layers of the reason why we live in chaos. And that can be lack of sleep. That can be grief from the MS. That can be just changes in our relationships because that happens too. And that's going to affect the way that we feel.”
Chapter 3 5 mins
“Life changes anyway, I mean, but when you have autoimmune disorders, life changes drastically sometimes at the drop of a hat. You have the, like, I call it a toolbox. You have a toolbox that you go, Hey, life's got more stressful. I'm going to pop open the top. I'm going to pull out the tools that work for me. And we're just going to add in some different tools for this particular situation.”
Chapter 4 2 mins
“Thriving to me is living in the joy of life and being present. When we have the capacity to be present, understanding when we don't have the capacity to be present, but that we actually walk through every day with a calmness that today is going to be whatever day it is
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Yoga Moves | S4E56
Bio: Mindy Eisenberg, MHSA, C-IAYT is the Founder an... more
Aug 10 2022 49m
Chapter 1 8 mins
“This is a big issue that people are fearful of yoga or they think they can't do it. It's in the forefront now, it's a mission of mine to help people understand that anyone can do it. And yes, yoga does lend itself to adaptation because the idea is that you are not forcing your body into a pose. The pose is supposed to benefit you.”
Chapter 2 3 mins
“Yoga is called a practice for a reason. And the practice is every day you get on your mat or you sit in your chair and you have a breath practice and that is going to change on a daily basis. It's not about getting the A or, nailing the pose... It's not a pass fail. 99% of yoga or meditation or Tai Chi is actually showing up and doing it for yourself. I feel strongly about that.”
Chapter 3 10 mins
“The idea with yoga is it's actually making friends again. You know, some people say that they're at peace with their body when they do yoga and the idea with the adaptive yoga is you're not identified by your MS. You know, that your MS isn't you, that's not who you are.”
Chapter 4 17 mins
“The other measurement we use in yoga is the breath. And so you always have that barometer, if you will, where if your breath is fast and rapid and shallow. That is a really good indicator of fatigue. If the breath is non-existent meaning holding the breath, that is also an indicator of either fatigue or fear or a need to back off.”
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Marijuana and MS | S4E55
Bio:   Dr. Mikhail (Misha) Kogan, MD, ABIOM, RCST is... more
Jul 27 2022 56m
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Coffee Break #34 with Leah Tsirigotis | S4E54 bonus
Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #34, whe... more
Jul 25 2022 47m
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Demystifying Gluten | S4E54
Bio:   Dr. Colin Bannon is a retired medical doctor ... more
Jul 20 2022 34m
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Ask Jack #8 | S4E53 bonus
Welcome to your next “plating” of Ask Jack, featurin... more
Jul 6 2022 51m
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Ask Jack #8 | S4E53 bonus
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Jul 1 2022 51m
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Coffee Break #33 with Geoff Allix | S4E53 bonus
Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #33, whe... more
Jun 27 2022 49m
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Laughter is the Best Medicine | S4E53
Bio:   Shari Short is a patient advocate, a professi... more
Jun 15 2022 28m
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Coffee Break #32 with Regina Beach | S4E52 bonus
Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #32, whe... more
Jun 6 2022 29m
Chapter 1 2 mins
Geoff Allix
Chapter 2 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 3 9 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 4 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 5 28 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 6 17 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 7 7 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 8 2 mins
Regina Beach
Chapter 9 12 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 10 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 11
Geoff Allix
Chapter 12
Regina Beach
Chapter 13 14 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 14
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Chapter 15 37 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 16 1 sec
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Chapter 17 32 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 18 47 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 19 5 sec
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Chapter 20 10 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 21 26 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 22 46 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 23 12 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 24 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 25 13 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 26
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Chapter 27 37 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 28 13 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 29 41 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 30 30 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 31 20 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 32 2 mins
Regina Beach
Chapter 33 13 sec
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Chapter 34 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 35 21 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 36 33 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 37 2 mins
to a much gentler, more yin, more long hold, more floor-based yoga
Chapter 38 9 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 39
Regina Beach
Chapter 40 24 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 41 1 min
Regina Beach
Chapter 42 7 sec
Geoff Allix
Chapter 43 1 sec
Regina Beach
Chapter 44 1 min
Geoff Allix
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Walking on Pins and Needles - Managing Chronic Pain with Tai Chi | S4E52
Bio:   Arlene Faulk has had a passion for writing fr... more
May 25 2022 34m
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