The Calm App – The Best Money I Spent in the Past Year!
Lack of sleep is one of my biggest triggers for seizures and one of the most common triggers for a lot of people living with epilepsy. For many years, I suffered with insomnia brought upon…
Pill Organizers – They Don’t Have to Be Boring!
For approximately 70% of people living with epilepsy, they control their seizures through a variety of medications. Missed doses of medication are a very common seizure trigger. When you take medication every day, sometimes it’s…
Books for Dealing with Stress
The BC Epilepsy Society recently launched a book club where we are reading the book Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. I read this book right after I was diagnosed with epilepsy and it had a…
Sleep and Epilepsy
Did you know that doctors and scientists have long observed a relationship between sleep and epileptic seizures? In fact, Aristotle observed this connection in antiquity, with doctors in the late 19th century recognizing that most…
How Practicing Yoga Helps with Epilepsy
I have spent hours looking into the connection between yoga and epilepsy, spending time on my computer trailing down the depths of the Internet, looking for research that links the usefulness of yoga and dealing…
Three Ways to Make Eggs Without Using Your Stove!
f you are a person living with epilepsy who is living on your own and you want to cook for yourself, the stove can seem daunting. To me, having a hot pan on a hot…