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The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency Podcast: Goodbye 2024, hello 2025!Still in the midst of the flurry of the Christmas season, join us as we consider the roller-coaster of 2024. There has been A LOT GOING ON from taking a big podcast summer break to get through challenging personal stuff to then celebrating the unimaginable joy of freedom, achievement and community support. Take a few minutes over your seasonal holidays to reflect on your own year past & plan how YOU want your next few days, weeks and months to turn out.
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The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency Podcast Summer Shorts: Access and BelongingThe MS Agency Podcast Summer Shorts: Access and Belonging
How much of your energy goes into planning for going out, university, getting to work, medical appointments, having a social life or making time for friends and family? How easy is it to navigate your society if you use a mobility aid or need more time? Access means belonging, no barriers to being part of your community. but so often, it's a daily battle that wear us down. What can we do? Listen in to Donna and Emma to reconnect with people who know what its like🫶🏾
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The MS Agency PodcastF**k MSListen for 15 minutes of pure power! We've had the envy, comparison and awful bitter feeling when we see other MSers doing SO MUCH BETTER than us. It's so unfair. How do we lift ourselves out of the icky swamp of comparison & forgetting OURSELVES??
Check out these resources
European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/
MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/
Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/
Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/
Music by Drop-It by Coma Media
Mental health MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/
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The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency: Money, Stress and MSTLDR; Do people with MS 'deserve' support when their health condition leads to loss of mobility and ways to be involved in society?
“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.” Aneurin Bevan, Minister for Health Post-war Britain
Do people with MS 'deserve' support when their health condition leads to loss of mobility and ways to be involved in society? Who pays the price for a society where illness puts people to the wayside? This...2024-07-1928 min
The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency: Bloody Buttons! Dealing with MS changesChange is not always a good thing when it comes to Multiple Sclerosis. When people say things get easier with time, for some it's just that that grief gets smaller and other things take over the space. We are forced to find another way, adapt to find a way through. Today, it's losing out on the nice things because the struggle was too much.
Resources
European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/
MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/
Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/
Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/
Music for The MS...2024-06-2844 min
The MS Agency PodcastDating, boundaries and a whole lot more!How was it for you? Dating has never been so easy, one swipe, one ping and you're connected. Right? RIGHT?
We discover the perils mixed in with the pearls. We're on a mission to have conversations that connect with you, our listeners and that matter to people with MS. Today Emma and Donna are getting into the fairytales, tearing them apart and putting their own ending so they match THIS modern dating world. Join us to discover your knight in shining armour!
Check out these resources
European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/
MS International...2024-06-2142 min
The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency Podcast: Mental Health with Dr Yolanda HiguerasWe all know what it’s like to be told NO- we want IT EVEN MORE!!
MS is like a big "NO" to life’s adventures, a party pooper- Lights on, music off and telling everyone to go home. How do we nurture and repair our mental health and wellbeing after diagnosis? And what about the day to day stuff?
In this episode we are joined by Dr Yolanda Higueras, a Neuropsychologist based in the Department of Neurology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain and Department of Cognitive Processes and Speech Th...2024-06-131h 07
The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency Episode 2: Joy, Loneliness and ConnectingIn today's episode you're going to learn about finding the small points of joy in your day.
Just what is it about talking with others that can make us feel better? And what is the difference between being isolated and taking some space? From Dr Judith Butler's Points of Joy to the depths of sadness in isolation to those wonderous times when we find a place to rest, peace in the company of people who accept us for who we are.
Donna Nahal and Emma Rogan talk about power of sharing your story and how, when we gain understanding from...2024-06-0644 min
The MS Agency PodcastThe MS Agency, Episode 1: Multiple Sclerosis DiagnosisMay 30th is World MS Day 🫶🏽- a day of solidarity for the worldwide MS community.
This year the theme is 'My Diagnosis'. Being diagnosed is a moment in time that people with MS seem to either vividly recall or blur out. This episode we're talking through the issues, the impact of diagnosis and going into the practical ways to deal with the upheaval.
Here is a list of MS organisations across the world in the MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/about-us/our-members/
The European MS Platform https://emsp.org/contact/our-members/
Mental health organisation MIND has some great...2024-05-3135 min