get hurt, I don’t care if you can touch your toes or not. That’s not what yoga is about. It’s about being able to tune out the outside world and focus on the inner part of yourself, so don’t worry what you look like in class. 6. I loved reading your book, Love Sick and found it to be full of HOPE, sharing your story from a normal girl’s perspective with honesty and openness. What is the message of HOPE that you would like to share with other women through your story? My biggest message to any reader is that we are all lovable no matter what. I think we, women especially, tend to let the external things that happen to us define who we are and there’s always something about that thing that makes us wonder if we’re still lovable. For me, it was the worry that no one would ever want to take me in sickness and health because I knew that the sickness was inevitable. What I found was, yes, there are people out there they may choose not
to love me because they fear what my future holds, but there are far more people who love me because of who I am at the core. Not who I am because of a diagnosis. So whatever your thing is that holds you back from feeling lovable, know that it doesn’t matter and that you are truly lovable. 7. What has been your biggest challenge or set back of having MS? I think the biggest challenge I’ve faced is the emotional part of the disease. I’m very fortunate that all of my symptoms are manageable, but there is nothing to take away the fear that comes with the uncertainty and unpredictability of MS. I said earlier that no two MS cases are alike, which is very true, but the emotional journey of the disease is pretty universal. Even though my symptoms are completely different than someone else’s I have many of the same fears others do – and I imagine that this doesn’t just apply to MS, but probably to most diagnoses as well.
"My biggest message to any reader is that we are all lovable no matter what."
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