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Over the past ten years or so I’ve been able to attend a number of the MS Ireland National Conferences held in different towns and cities across the country. I’ve always found the talks and topics really interesting and enjoyed getting together. If a talk wasn’t relevant to my specific MS experience, I liked having the opportunity to meet other people to learn how they deal with MS and share notes.

This Christmas, it is time to gather your family and friends, work colleagues, school pupils and youth groups, or you local club members, and don your best (or worst!) festive Christmas Jumpers!

There are the parts of Christmas I love, like time with family, winter walks, twinkling lights and evenings by a cosy fire. But the parts I like don’t always gel well with my MS. As a result, Christmas can turn into something of a marathon for me and excitement tends to quickly give way to dread when I realise there is no way my body will cope with all the festivities.

This week from the MS & Me blog archive Joan Jordan shares how she is *learning* to have a stress free Christmas.

Happy New Year! What is it about the turning of the year that has us reviewing everything? Planning, making arbitrary promises, our social channels flooded with infinite numbers of articles about changing habits or ‘living your best life’ (??).