Looking for a way to overcome your chronic illness? Fuggedaboutit!

Seriously. Forget about it.

Easier said than done, right?

Jennifer recently reflected on this when she wrote:

“I am aware of my Multiple Sclerosis every single day. The disease cannot be avoided, as it is everywhere in my life, from its treatment, symptoms, and progression. It’s easy to let disease be our focus, but it is important and valuable to distract ourselves from it too.”

Join us for this episode of A Couple Takes on MS Podcast as we explore the importance of engaging in activities that distract your mind and prevent the disease from consuming your every thought.

Whether it’s listening to music, reading a book, or going out for the night to watch a baseball game with our beloved Great Lakes Loons, MS is no longer front and center in our lives.

And we found comfort in knowing that we aren’t the only ones who feel this way and are not letting MS control our minds.

Keynote speaker and best-selling author Mike Robbins has explained that the goal of this kind of thinking is "... to choose to ‘distract’ ourselves (i.e. get out of our heads, let go of our negative worries, and take a conscious break from the day-to-day stress of life) in a truly healthy way. When our motivation is positive (we're not avoiding anything, but choosing consciously to take a break), the outcome and experience of our ‘distraction’ is more likely to be healthy and beneficial.”

Let our conversation be a distraction of sorts to find ways to get it out of your head from time to time.

Here are links to sites to help you continue this conversation:

• 60 Healthy and Uplifting Distractions – Delaware Psychological Services article highlighting the positives to distracting ourselves  

• Distracting Yourself in Healthy Ways – HuffPost essay by Mike Robbins that gets to the core of the hows and whys behind purposely distracting ourselves.

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