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In this INSIDER newsletter: Cradle2Cradle launched on the Alinker Family Farm, BE's hive - BE's article 'Food and Pharma', LIVING PROOF - Mathew Embry, Catherine with a powerful share, Troy and the Alinker Academy, Alinker review by Dave Bexfield - ActiveMSers, The mother of all campaigns just launched.
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BE's hive
This newsletter has a lot of focus on MS, because neurological diseases are on the rise, and there is more to it. I am not against medication, sometimes that is needed and sometimes it works, but the drive for medication while not supporting health and what people can do for health, is a sickcare focus that might undermine our wellbeing.
Back in 2019 I wrote an article 'Food and Pharma' and published it on LinkedIN. I wrote the article inspired by Mathew Embry's documentary 'Living Proof'. Here is an excerpt of my article:
... The cure for MS has already been found, yes MS has been cured! But in rats only and this does not translate to the human brain, so perpetuating the research with animal testing causes a lot of trials and medication that actually does not work on humans
People pay $2000-$6000 per month for medication for which no proof of effectiveness exists! Though the “other effects”* of most MS medication cause a lot of harm, pain, discomfort, depression and the need for other medication to treat these “side effects”...
You can read my article HERE
There is a lot we can do for our health... Mathew Embry shares his journey
and...
Mathew Embry will be our special guest on one of the next ZOOM calls.
Watch for the announcement of date and time in the next newsletter!
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LIVING PROOF
Mathew Embry is a Canadian actor, filmmaker, Director and
the founder of MS Hope
Watch the full documentary on LIVING PROOF
When a young man is diagnosed with a debilitating autoimmune disease with no cure, he and his father go on a journey to find answers and hope.
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Catherine
"The Alinker has not only changed my life it has changed the lives of my children too. It is not lost on them the difference it has made!"
My 8 year old son, Gus, says as we are making the mile and half hike to see the white cliffs, "I love your Alinker, without it we could never have done this." He's 100% right. So thank you. 💛
Conoy in Bainbridge, PA.
"understanding differences"
Maggie's entire 5th grade class was assigned an "understanding differences" project. Some of the students, like my daughter had to write a realistic fiction story utilizing the knowledge they gained from a chosen person (me, it's me!) and some of the students had to design something that would make their chosen persons life easier.
Maggie's dear friend Emma asked if she could interview me to better understand MS and my needs. Yesterday she presented me with her problem solving invention, a holder for my cane on my Alinker!! First, not only is it yellow, my favorite color and impeccably decorated it is beyond useful and heart warmingly thoughtful.
Emma really took the time to better understand what it means to live with MS. She listened when I explained that as much as I LOVE my Alinker that it offered me no place to put my cane and sometimes, like when I attend Maggie and Emma's basketball games I need my Alinker to navigate the school but I also need my cane to navigate the bleachers. Problem solved! 💛
I love that my daughter's school devised this project and that the girls teachers (ahem, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Hammond and Mrs. Stone!) inspired compassion and love. At the end of the day I feel like all of us regardless of our abilities just want to be understood. Maggie with her amazing story and Emma with her thoughtful invention gave me that gift.
I wanted to share this with you. My daughter, Maggie's entire basketball team has embraced me and my Alinker. All 10 of these girls have the best heart so it came as no surprise that my Alinker was an integral part in both Maggie and Emma's understanding differences project. In Maggie's realistic fiction story a teenage girl is diagnosed with MS and receives a highly coveted Alinker and as you can see here Emma problem solved and designed a simple attachment for my cane. The Alinker has changed my life and prompted a young generation to ask important questions. Thank you. 💛
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Troy has MS
For more than 10 years now, but the Alinker is changing the way he moves, how he feels, his access to community, how it makes him a lot more independent. Troy is also one of the participants in the Alinker Academy online classes they filmed over the summer. Two days a week they went to the RA centre in Ottawa and filmed all the Alinker specific classes so you can do them at home, on your Alinker!
The Alinker Academy has more than 20 hours of yoga, range of motion, gait, strength, stretch and more classes, uniquely developed for the Alinker.
Troy does not like the camera, but what he wanted to share with you was important enough for him to get over his own unease of talking to the camera.
Here is how you Enroll in the Alinker Academy
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We are reposting a review of the Alinker by Active MSers brilliantly written by Dave Bexfield. Subscribe to his blog and newsletter, he shares so much amazing information and storytelling in relation to living with #MS
Please note, for the proper size Alinker, refer to the website
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The mother of all campaigns
We just launched our third collective campaign, these are the collective campaigns that allow for larger donations and sponsors. These campaigns are supporting the individual campaigns, 172 campaigns completed to date! Imagine!
People who do a campaign often live at the receiving end of the 'sickcare' system that drives people into poverty. When you don't experience this, you don't even know this is happening to people, so the people who do their campaigns are in fact generous enough to share what it is like. In return we can collectively show up and make sure they get their own Alinker. These 2 campaigns just launched. Read their stories!
 
Want to start your own campaign?
There is no waitinglist at the moment!
GET STARTED
and we have a new partner / sponsor on our collective campaign
Check it out
Women Thriving with MS is launching the weTHRIVE membership for women who want to connect and discover how to thrive while living with MS and Fatigue. This membership is for women who are no longer able to work (full-time) or have retired early due to MS symptoms and fatigue.
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