Sunday Conversations - November 2024

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Last Updated: 19 November 2024 19 November 2024

“Your Doctors are Human Beings, Too!”

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Ruth H. Axelrod, MHSA, PhD

You may find it easy or challenging to relate to each of your doctors and other providers in ways that help you get what you need from them. Both doctor and patient contribute to that relationship, usually in different ways, based on our personalities, roles and expectations. This presentation and discussion aimed to offer you some tools that can help make that relationship both effective and fulfilling. The discussion was led by Ruth Axelrod, who drew on her career in healthcare and academia, as well as her personal health journey, to facilitate conversation.

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Sunday Conversations - September 15, 2024

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Last Updated: 19 September 2024 19 September 2024

Dr. Jill Crista Answers Your Questions About Mold

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Dr. Jill Crista is a pioneering Naturopathic Doctor and renowned educator on complex chronic illnesses including mold sickness, Lyme disease, post-concussion syndrome, and PANDAS and PANS. She's the author of the highly acclaimed best-seller, Break The Mold: 5 Tools To Conquer Mold and Take Back Your Health.

Dr. Jill spent an hour with us answering our questions about mold illness: diagnosis/symptoms, treatments, and relation to ME/CFS.

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Sunday Conversations - August 18, 2024

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Last Updated: 01 September 2024 01 September 2024

“Body of Water” - Performance and Community Conversation with Sara Nesson

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Body of Water is a chronology of love, loss, and reconciliation that follows Sara’s journey as a landlocked distance swimmer struggling to find the way home. Set on the rugged coastline of Northern California, the 25-minute monologue weaves lyric storytelling, myth, and sacred text. Playful and poignant, it is an homage to Sara’s aquatic nature, her passion for the wilderness, and a life altered by ME/CFS.

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Sunday Conversations - June 23, 2023

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Last Updated: 28 June 2024 28 June 2024

“Improving Pain Care Through Education and Policy”

Sunday, June 23, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Cindy Steinberg

Jackie Orent-Nathan

Michele Matthews

In this edition of Sunday Conversations, we continued our series on comorbidities with a focus on pain. A panel of three presenters from the Massachusetts Pain Initiative (MassPI) presente on the work their organization does to improve the lives of people suffering from pain through knowledge, education, and policy reform. Cindy Steinberg discussed her role in past and current legislative actions, both locally and nationally. Jackie Orent-Nathan talked about pain neuroscience and about solutions that use neuroplasticity to influence the reorganization of neural networks. Michele Matthews focused on medications and provided the "Ins and Outs of Medications for Pain and Symptom Management".

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