You are more than what happened to you.

I was diagnosed with YOPD 6 years ago. In 2020 at age 45. Something I have learned about myself is that I live better when I separate MYSELF from the DISEASE. I talk to my Parkinson’s like it is the unwelcome squatter I picture it to be. I tell it to stop. To leave....

At 23, Parkinson’s Changed My Life. It Didn’t End It.

When I was 23 years old, I walked into a neurologist’s office looking for answers. I walked out with Parkinson’s disease. Those words changed everything. I didn’t just grieve the diagnosis. I grieved the version of myself that existed before it. I grieved the future I...

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