JOY THRU MS

  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • COACHING
  • BLOG TOPICS
  • READ
  • CONTACT
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • COACHING
  • BLOG TOPICS
  • READ
  • CONTACT
Picture

WILD BLUEBERRIES SUPERFOOD

4/14/2025

0 Comments

 
Picture
Wild blueberries have been growing in Maine, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island for over 10,000 years and are naturally resistant to many native pests and disease. They are not to be confused with ordinary blueberries, a larger berry grown in several parts of the world and domesticated around 1900 in New Jersey from a native species for commercial development. 
Both ordinary and wild blueberry offer great health benefits such as being loaded with vitamin C, improves memory, helps manage Diabetes, rich in antioxidant’s, improves mental health, low in calories and tastes great.

Wild blue berries are different from the “ordinary” blueberry starting with their size. Wild
blueberries are much smaller than cultivated berries and come in a variety of colors. Their tiny
berries range in color from light to dark blue with a very intense blueberry flavor. They grow low
to the ground on bush like plants as most of the actual plant is underground in a rhizome root
system, this is how the plant spreads. These plants have not only survived in acidic soil and challenging winter conditions for thousand of years but have also evolved to adapt and thrive in
areas that experience wildfire conditions. After a wildfire the soil becomes enriched with nutrients from burnt vegetation, the plants adapt to utilize these nutrient deposits to their benefit making them stronger and healthier. Their ability to adapt to harsh environments gives them “GENETIC STRENGTH” which we benefit from when we consume them. Their adaptogenic nutrients gives us the ability to adapt to the stress and challenges improves brain related health, and cancer prevention.
read full article
0 Comments

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER BUT WHAT IF IT IS?

4/1/2025

0 Comments

 
Picture

​“THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD SO IRRESISTIBLY CONTAGIOUS AS
LAUGHTER AND GOOD HUMOR”

CHARLES DICKENS

​
OUR STORY IN A NUTSHELL
When you’re sitting in a hospital waiting to find out why your 20-year-old daughter had no feeling in half of her body, nothing seems remotely funny. As Joy (my daughter) endured endless days of tests with no idea of what was going wrong I realized I started morphing into an alter ego. I go from strong crisis mom to someone who is standing on a cliff so far out of my comfort zone that all I want to do is drink. (and I’m a recovering alcoholic) I am desperately looking for something to help me cope. That’s when my alter ego takes over that laughs at the most inappropriate moments, I was so bad that the nurses moved my daughter to a private room that up until then had been unavailable. Well at least one good thing came out my bad behavior. Once we got to the private room, we instinctively started looking for something fun to do, something that would take our mind’s off of what was going on around us and make us laugh. On the hospital TV (this was almost 20 years ago, no media on phones) we found this crazy show in Japanese called wipeout, we laughed at that stupid show for a week and it seemed to shift the heaviness of her situation. If you ask her about that week the first things she tells you about is that silly show, not 
how it felt to be told you had Multiple Sclerosis. That’s my memory too, that’s when I really experienced the POWER of Humor. I have always loved to laugh but never knew the power it had to transform me until then.
read full article
0 Comments



    ​Author

    Certified & Licensed Health Coach,
    Cathy O'Brien

    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All

    Archives

    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025

Picture
HOME   |   ABOUT   |  COACHING  |  BLOG TOPICS  |   READ  |   CONTACT
Picture
​​Connect with other MS survivors, follow us and stay in touch!
​​Copyright © 2026 JoyThruMS. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy. Accessibility & Terms
Site powered by Engerer Enterprises​​