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ALS and Wellness Blog - Index of Articles


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About Me
Welcome - About Me
"Align, Lengthen & Strengthen Your Resilience - While Living with ALS" (My free book)
ALS and Wellness Voted Best Health Blog (2016)
"Living Well with ALS" (direct link to my columns at ALS News Today)
My Memories Teaching Wellness & Complementary/Alternative Medicine
Why I Bounce! (2015)
I'm Still Bouncing! (2016 Update)

ALS Awareness
MAYDAY-MAYDAY! (2015 ALS Awareness Month)
ALS Awareness: Minding Me While Minding the Message (2020)
How I Learned to Speak Up for ALS Awareness 
Looking back on the progress (really!) in ALS awareness


Alternative Medicine/Treatments
My Memories Teaching Wellness & Complementary/Alternative Medicine
Auntie A. Ellis Gets Cured!

Breathing Tips
How Blowing Bubbles Helps Me Breathe Better with ALS

Body Changes... and Adjustments
What I Thought Was My ALS - - Was Actually an Imposter Symptom

Caregiving
Finding the Funny Moments in Caregiving
How to Coach Your Caregiver: Make it a Ham Sandwich

Cures
Friends Don’t Tell Friends How to Cure Their Disease
Auntie A. El-ess  Gets Cured

Decluttering for ALS
Mental Space (and closet space)
How I Socked It to ALS

Dentist
Surviving the Dentist with the New Normal of ALS

Diagnosis & ALS Clinics
Conquering the Gap Between ALS Diagnosis and Acceptance
My Visit to the ALS Clinic
1 Thing to Always Bring to the ALS Clinic
My New Version of the ALS Functional Rating Scale
Date of Diagnosis - - Is This One of Your ALS-related Mental Potholes?  
Reframing Our Approach with a New Kind of ALS Diagnosis
Musings About the Language of ALS
I Treat My ALS Clinic Like an Olympic Challenge
My ALS prognosis affects how I wrestle with making decisions

Eating/Drinking Tips
Enjoy Dining Out; with ALS
When Swallowing Becomes an ALS Issue
How my breakfast routine helps to smooth out my mornings
Sorting out the sometimes confusing advice on ALS and diet
Lessons learned from the dysphagia symptoms that come with my ALS

Exercise Tips
A Healthy Sit
Why I Bounce
I'm Still Bouncing!
Do You Rock & Roll? (using RESET movements from Original Strength)
From Outer Space to Inner Ear (Balance Tips)
How I Use Crawling and Original Strength for My Exercise Routine
Keep Moving with Chair/Seated Exercise
Move Along with Me: My ALS Exercise Videos
Moving Matters
The Power of Just ONE Chair Squat
Discovering How to Move Again
My Tricks for Adding Movement to My Day
Here’s how Iuse a chair to safely do floor exercises

Feet/AFOs (Ankle-Foot-Orthotics) Tips
How I Learned to Like My AFOs
Slowly But Surely, My AFOs Taught Me These Valuable Lessons

Friends & Family Tips
How to Help Your Friends When They Ask How to Help You

What (Not) to Say to a Friend Who Has ALS

The View From (Down) Here

Friends Don’t Tell Friends How to Cure Their Disease


Home Safety/Modification Tips
Do You Work Around?
How I Made My Shower Safer
Plan and Prevent: My Personal Strategy for Living with ALS

My Success with Grab Bar Acrobatics 
2 Things That Make My Life with ALS a Little Safer


Humor
A Visit to My Local Gym
Abundant Laughing Situations
Auntie A.L.S. Gives Advice
Behind Closed Doors
I Was a Bag Lady
Laugh on Down the Road... Traveling with ALS
My 'Go Along' Adventures Add Humor to Life with ALS
ALS Is No Laughing Matter but a Little Humor Helps
Living Loudly and Laughing with Dysarthria

Mindfulness Tips
How to Focus and Pay Attention  Mindfulness for pALS & cALS
How to Use Mindfulness to Live Better with ALS
Mindfulness to Improve Your Memory
Using Active Mindfulness for ALS
How to Spend More Time NOT Thinking About Your ALS
Time Matters when Living with ALS
How I Fine-tune the Voices in My Head, So I Can Live with ALS
How I use 'checking in with myself' to improve how I’m living with ALS

Mobility Tips (Rollators, Scooters, Cell phone, etc.) 
Learning How to USE a Walker/Rollator
Learning How to Roll Through Life with My Rollator
Give a Mobility Scooter a Try - It Can Be Wheelie Fun (Part 1)
More Mobility Scooter Adventures (Part 2) 
ALS and My Hardly Mobile Phone

Motivation & Attitude Tips - - Daily Routines & Mind Games
These 5 Things Keep Me Motivated
How I Use 'Showing Up' to Help Me Live with ALS
The ALS Game Board of Life
How to Revive Your Daily Life Routines
My Superhero Goal is To Be Stronger Than My Clothes
How My Daily Routine Helps Me Live with ALS


Motivation & Attitude Tips - - Mindset & Misc. Tips
Always Learn Something (Book, video, and blog recommendations)
The Common Cold and Staying Positive
How to Apply Optimism While Living with ALS 
How to Use Your Mind to Boost Your Immune System
How to Outsmart the Winter Blues
Words Also Matter   (The words we use can influence our mind)
How to Reset Your ALS Mindset
Tap into Your Inner (ALS) Astronaut
Are You Stuck in the ALS Waiting Room?

New Year's Resolutions & Goals

How setting an intention to ‘simply be’ became an ALS goal

The Power of One Resolution


Read & Learn (Resources)
Always Learn Something (Book, video, and blog recommendations)
Lean Into ALS with These New Videos for ALS Patients 
How I made my own resilience checklist to live with ALS

Self-care
With ALS, Self-Care Isn't Selfish, It's Essential
How 'Self-care Minis" Help Me Through a Busy Day
Changes to My A.M./P.M. Routines that Made My Life with ALS a Little Safer

Speaking & Voice Tips (Dysarthria)
ALS Dysarthria? Use These Innovative Strategies to Keep on Talking!
Do You Speak A-L-Sky?
How Echo Show Became My Personal Voice Coach
Listen! Can You Hear Me Now?
Why am I Singing Through a Straw, You May Ask?
Living Loudly and Laughing with Dysarthria
Translating the Talking Boxes at the Drive-thru
I’m still talking! … and sharing my strategies that help my ALS speech

Stress Management Tips
ALS Stress Management Made Easy
Adapt-Learn-Survive
Checking In: A Strategy to Help You Manage ALS Stress
Do You Work Around?
Feeling a Little Burned Out Lately?
How to Apply Optimism While Living with ALS 
I Have ALS - - So Why Should I Be Happy?
Rituals
The Small Stuff: ALS Stress Tips
How I Avoid the Sticky Points in My Day
Banishing My ALS Thought Loops and Living One Day at a Time
How I C.H.A.R.M. Myself Through the Holidays
Knitting My Way to a Solution for the Chills

Wisdom from Champions to Silence My Inner Judges 

ALS got you stressed? Try connecting the dots to calm 

Having all the facts helps me live with ALS


Videos
Move Along with Me: My ALS Exercise Videos

My Presentations (to past conferences & workshops)
How to Focus and Pay Attention (Mindfulness)
ALS Wellness Life Dimensions: Parts 1, 2, 3
Checking In: A Strategy to Help Manage ALS Stress


 I hope the information and personal stories I've shared here will help you on your own journey living with ALS. If you have any comments, or questions, or would like to see a particular topic covered please feel free to use the comment section below.

Dagmar Munn
ALS and Wellness Blog
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