This is the MS Agency Podcast #MSAgency
The hosts Donna Nahal and Emma Rogan talk about living with multiple sclerosis and share their strategies for living wi...
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.
Socials
Donna https://www.instagram.com/donna_nahal/
Emma @emmadragon.bsky.social
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18:59
The MS Agency Podcast Summer Shorts: Access and Belonging
The 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🫶🏾
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/
Twitter/X @theMSAgency
Instagram:
Donna Nahal @donna_nahal
Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/
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18:15
F**k MS
Listen 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/
Twitter/X @theMSAgency
Instagram:
Donna Nahal @donna_nahal
Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/
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14:45
The MS Agency: Money, Stress and MS
TLDR; 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 episode is a bit gross as we discuss people's worth by their functionality. 🤮
Check out these resources
European MS Platform https://emsp.org/
MS International Federation https://www.msif.org/
Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/
Insight Timer https://insighttimer.com/
Music
Drop-It by Coma Media
Twitter@theMSAgency
Insta
@donna_nahal
@emmaj_rogan
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28:34
The MS Agency: Bloody Buttons! Dealing with MS changes
Change 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 Agency Podcast
Drop-It by Coma Media https://www.patreon.com/yuriisemchyshyn
Mental health organisation MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/
Mental health organisation MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/
Contact The MS Agency on Twitter/X @theMSAgency
Instagram:
Donna Nahal @donna_nahal
Emma Rogan @emmaj_rogan/
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This is the MS Agency Podcast #MSAgency
The hosts Donna Nahal and Emma Rogan talk about living with multiple sclerosis and share their strategies for living with a chronic illness.
"We named what we do The MS Agency because MS can take so much from the individual and we're about reclaiming that vital aspect of our selves. A person's 'agency' is their capacity to actively and independently choose and to affect change; free will or self-determination.
Being diagnosed with MS can strip away our sense of agency, impacting our lives in ways you never imagined. We are thrown off-track, traumatized, isolated and need support to recover and rebuild our sense of self. We CAN continue with our life, heal emotionally & mentally stronger to deal with whatever changes come our way but we need support, love, medical treatment and care."
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