by user | Mar 30, 2017 | Meet The Users Of MCP
This video is the second of three in our series of sharing what we’ve learned by interacting with the communities on MyCounterpane since 2013. It picks up where the last one left off and goes into some powerful choices for healing: Visualization and silver linings....
by Kate Milliken | Aug 9, 2016 | Hearing Is Healing, Meet The Users Of MCP
MSPals co-founder Mary Pettigrew was diagnosed with RRMS in 2001 and quickly turned to art therapy as a way to cope with her new diagnosis. Mary wrote poetry that was, in her own words, dark, yet therapeutic. “Art therapy meant so many things besides the fact I...
by Kate Milliken | Jun 30, 2016 | Hearing Is Healing, Meet The Users Of MCP
If you are someone with MS who believes you can’t find love, this post is for you. When Jen first met Dan, she had just lost the ability to walk. She didn’t think she’d ever find a man who’d want to be with a woman in a wheelchair. We’re...
by Grace Jeffress | Jun 6, 2016 | Hearing Is Healing, Meet The Users Of MCP
When MyCounterpane first embarked on building a blog for MyCounterpane users to visit, we began by asking a question we knew you would want to answer: What Was The Best Thing A Neurologist Ever Said To You? And your responses were impassioned, empowering and inspiring...
by Diana Frustaci | Apr 19, 2016 | Meet The Users Of MCP
Writer and Disability Advocate Liz Jackson was diagnosed with idiopathic neuropathy in 2012 after waking up one morning and, quite literally, falling out of bed. Now forced to wear glasses and use a cane to walk, Liz found that she had no choices outside the cane and...
by Kate Milliken | Dec 7, 2015 | Hearing Is Healing, Meet The Users Of MCP
When MCP user Darla Vaughan was diagnosed with progressive MS, her life opened up to a new set of struggles, questions and emotions. Like any person diagnosed with illness, Darla quickly began researching, the illness itself, but also began to seek support options...
