When forming a treatment plan for an illness or disease it is helpful to understand your own nature, your doctor’s nature as well as the nature of the disease you are facing. This question is important to answer before making big decisions. I learned from […]
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One Step Leads to the Next and so on…
One step is all you need to take and that step will lead to another. There is value in recognizing that what your life has been up until now, still is. The life you have created doesn’t just disappear or evaporate. All the good you’ve […]
Everything Feels Up In The Air
After a diagnosis of a disease or illness, whether one had an inkling that something was wrong or it came as a total shock, everything in life can feel uncertain, confusing and “up in the air”. Plans already made might need to change. Lifestyles, routines, […]
Medicine Is Poison
Poison is defined as, “Anything that kills or injures through its chemical action.” The fact that medicine is poison used for healing is not unknown and is the reason why doctors are rigorously trained to determine dosages and risk versus reward balancing in all treatment. […]
Release from Constraint of Fearful Thinking
Awareness, awareness and more awareness. Every person has the ability to use their conscious mind to step back, assess the situation and find their path forward. Yet we are all human and thus we can imagine much more than just our present circumstances. If I […]
Fearful Thinking
When Andy taught twelfth grade behavioral special education at Molokai High, in Hawaii, he discovered a simple and profound truth. Success makes way for more success and failure makes more failure. Slowly, but surely, he set the conditions that allowed the students minds to conceive […]
Introducing a new column and blog
by Michele Potter Andy and Michelle met in Aspen, when she was a 17-year old ski instructor. Andy and his friend spied her and drove her to work in his vintage Porsche. The rest is history, as they say, but in this case, an incredibly […]
Your Wildest Dreams: A Parkinson’s Love Story
Adult Creative Nonfiction This is the story of the adventurous life embraced by Andy and Michelle Heath. I’ve written a creative nonfiction book that chronicles how the extraordinary life we lived before Parkinson’s, informed, inspired and made possible our successful approach to living with Parkinson’s. […]
The Boy and The Crow
Middle Grade, ages 8 to 14 The island is almost another character as the mystery unfolds. Twelve year old Will befriends Tom, the elusive old man who is the camp caretaker, when Will has to spend one entire summer on the island. During one of […]
Mindamoon
Early Readers, ages 7 to 10 In 1674, children’s birthdays were not often celebrated, but magic was often afoot. In the midst of her family’s preparations for Queen Elizabeth’s visit to their village, young Anne receives a surprise gift on her natal day. The gift gets […]