"Where Life Meets Parkinson's." A blog for Parkinson's education, research advances, treatment strategies, and personal reflection. The goal is to provide support and resources to anyone either with Parkinson's disease or with any neurodegenerative disorder.
"Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much." Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche **Introduction: Recently, I wrote a blog post entitled "A Checklist for Supporting Someone with Parkinson’s" (to read it click here). Briefly, I had been meeting people who had friends with …
"Exercise: you don't have time not to" George A. Sheehan "It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor." Marcus Tullius Cicero A Mantra for Prescription for Parkinson's: Exercise is Medicine"With Parkinson’s, we need Dopamine.From Exercise, we make ‘Hopeamine.’If this is true, pick exercises you enjoy.Try to maximize your daily …
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"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." Jon Kabat-Zinn "Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves." Thich Nhat Hanh 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 7 posts from April-•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month (Part …
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"How long should you try? Until." Jim Rohn "Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel." H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 6 posts from April-•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month (Part 2)- Exercise• April 11 is …
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“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Plato “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Anais Nin 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 5-posts from April- •2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise •2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month (Part 2)- Exercise • April 11 is …
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"Because you are alive, everything is possible." Thich Nhat Hanh "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 4-posts from April- •2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise •2019 …
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"Hope is passion for what is possible." Soren Kierkegaard "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." Emil Brunner 2019 Parkinson's Awareness Month: To help support the month of Parkinson's awareness, here are 3-posts from earlier in April-•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month- 12 Rules of Life With Exercise•2019 Parkinson’s Awareness Month …
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.“ William James "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." Jim Ryun Part 2 of Parkinson’s Awareness Month is Dedicated to Exercise:Introduction to Parkinson's:What is Parkinson’s Disease? Parkinson’s usually presents as a motor system disorder that results from the loss …
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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." Hippocrates "Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health." William Osler Introduction: April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. I am convinced …
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"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." Victor Hugo “Never, never, never give in!” Winston S. Churchill Perseverance Defined: <per·se·ver·ance /ˌpərsəˈvirəns/ noun> I really like the description given by vocabulary.com, "Perseverance is not giving up. It is persistence and tenacity, the effort required to do something and keep doing it till the end, even if it's hard. With …
Journey with Parkinson's 