When we traveled to India, we had a very different experience when we were out in public and that gave Andy the courage to embrace for himself that he could be a teacher, instead of a spectacle. When we arrived at the orphanage, we were […]
Category: Intuitive Clarity
Andy With Parkinson’s in America
Changing the World’s Heart: Traveling With Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s Isolation
People living with chronic and often incurable disease cannot will their condition away. It’s up to those without those challenges to notice, step up, offer, be willing, engage and support those brave enough to come out of isolation and grace our world with their presence. […]
Living Well and Having Parkinson’s
Risky Behavior
Parkinson’s is both a movement disorder AND a neurological disease and this twofold simultaneous condition creates a set up for risky behavior to occur. Risky behavior and wellness don’t go together. I don’t know if Parkinson’s disease by itself actually causes a patient to engage […]
Lack of Purpose
New Wave Treatment for Bradykinesia
Many Parkinson’s patients experience a symptom called Bradykinesia- or slowness of movement. The cause of this symptom is a lack of dopamine but the effect I’ve seen in Andy is frustration and a lack of tolerance both in himself and in people interacting with him- […]
Negative Thinking
We know a spell of negative thoughts can occur in any person’s life, but a tendency towards negative thinking is actually part of the symptom menu that gets triggered with Parkinson’s disease. Looking back, I can identify negative thought patterns in Andy that presented a […]