Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis
Calming the Chaos – in Conversation with Mattie Cummins | S4E57
Bio: Mattie is a counselor, brain coach and CEO of...
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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