Five Things To Do Everyday When Living with Epilepsy
I have lived with epilepsy for nearly a decade now. Wow, how fast time goes. Time opens your eyes and imparts wisdom, if you let it. Epilepsy is a complex…
Epilepsy Quirks
The journey in living with epilepsy hasn’t always been without its stumbles and trials. Regardless, I’ve learned quite a bit throughout the years. In having developed a tougher skin, absorbing…
5 Things To Remember About Someone With Epilepsy
Epilepsy can be a challenging tribulation, not only for an estimated 3 million Americans such as myself who battle each day, but in addition for all of the people in…
What Epilepsy Did
Along my epilepsy journey, I’d come across a profound poem that most know of, titled “What Cancer Cannot Do.” This powerful poem proclaims statements such as, “it cannot silence courage,”…
6 Things About Having Epilepsy That Aren’t Terrible, Horrible, No Good.
There happens to be this common misconception among some of those who battle epilepsy that, the moment the condition has tipped its hat to your brain and your life, that…
Lessons Learned From Epilepsy
It took a crash. A what could have been a fatal car crash and the diagnosis of epilepsy in order to open my eyes. To assess my entire life. The…
To Be A Wife With Epilepsy
When we were engaged to be married, we were on cloud nine with love for one another, goals and dreams for our future together as husband and wife coming together…
Why I Am Open About My Epilepsy
There is still to this day such a stigma attached to the condition of epilepsy. It is viewed at as a literal disease by some. Something that you can catch…
Anxiety and Epilepsy: How To Put A Stop To It Before It Puts A Stop To You
“Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest.” Unknown Anxiety. A faceless beast that affects us all at some time or another.…
5 Ways I Stay Positive Living With Epilepsy
Epilepsy has one job, and one job only. To attempt to make our lives a living hell. We have one job too as epilepsy fighters. To return the favor. You…
If I Have A Seizure: A Call For Compassion
“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love,…
Thank You Epilepsy
“Trust the timing of your life.” I strongly believe with all of my heart, that everything happens for a reason. That my epilepsy diagnosis was holding hands with a much bigger, grander plan…
Positive Affirmations To Rise Above Epilepsy
“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” Collecting positive thoughts and affirmations, and storing them in your mind,…
Epilepsy In Relationships
“No trial is so large we can’t overcome it together.” Elder Neil L. Andersen Having a medical condition such as epilepsy, it can have an effect on even the greatest of relationships. The one who is…
How I Explain What A Seizure Feels Like
Sure there’s “getting used to” seizures after having the condition for so long, but there really is no getting buddy-buddy with them I’m sure we can all agree to that.…
Five Reasons I Love My Life Even More Because Of My Epilepsy
“Inhale the future, exhale the past.” I have read quite a few articles about the difficulty of depression and the possibility of losing ones identity after becoming diagnosed with epilepsy, and how…