Category: Epilepsy & Neurological Health
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What Living With an Invisible Condition Teaches You About Trust
You learn to disclose an invisible condition by doing it wrong a few times and watching what happens. Eventually you get good at it — which turns out to be its own quiet cost.
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What Chronic Illness Costs During Adolescence
At sixteen I got my driver’s license. Then epilepsy took it back. Then I got it back. Then it took it again. Here’s what a chronic condition actually costs during the years when independence is supposed to be forming.
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What a Diagnosis Actually Does: Reflections on Getting the Word ‘Epilepsy’ at Fifteen
A diagnosis is usually just one word. Somehow it’s supposed to hold years of things that never made sense, plus everything that comes after. I was fifteen when I got mine.
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Why Community Matters More When You’re Navigating a Serious Neurological Condition
I started an advocacy organization because I needed something that didn’t yet exist to provide. This is a reflection on why community matters for anyone navigating a serious neurological condition, what being in service to others gives back — and where to start looking if you don’t have that community yet.
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PTSD and Chronic Illness: The Neurological Connection That Explains Why You Can’t Just ‘Think Positive’
Trauma doesn’t live primarily in thoughts. It lives in the body, in the measurable physiology of a stress response system that got stuck in an alarm state. Understanding that changes how you approach healing.
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Cannabis and CBD for Seizures: My Experience, and Where the Research Stands Now
The FDA approval of Epidiolex was a landmark moment — the first cannabis-derived pharmaceutical approved for epilepsy. As someone who has tried more than 26 medications for seizure control, I found this development worth understanding closely. In this post I share what this approval means, the concerns it raises, and my thoughts on pharmaceutical CBD…
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Navigating Cancer Between Hope and Hype: Finding Clarity, Making Better Decisions, and Living Well Amid Uncertainty — Why the Crisis Isn’t Information, It’s Navigation
Nearly two million Americans received a cancer diagnosis in 2025. The crisis they face is not a shortage of information — it is the absence of a framework for navigating it. After two years of research, writing, and testing every idea against lived experience, my new book addresses exactly that gap.
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Tick Season Is Here: How to Protect Yourself from Lyme Disease, Alpha-Gal Syndrome, and Other Tick-Borne Illnesses
A clear, evidence-based guide to Lyme disease, Alpha-Gal syndrome, tick prevention, and the latest HHS initiative — so you can enjoy the outdoors safely.
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What Does It Actually Mean to Be Healthy?
Modern culture has become obsessed with appearance, optimization, and performance, but real health is often revealed through the quieter signals most people ignore. From digestion and sleep to nervous system balance, recovery, emotional regulation, and daily function, this article explores what genuine wellness actually looks and feels like beneath the surface.
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Carnivore Diet Controversy: Why People Thrive, Why Critics Worry, and What the Internet Gets Wrong
The carnivore diet has exploded online because many people genuinely feel better after escaping processed-food chaos. But visible transformation, weight loss, and improved short-term markers do not automatically settle deeper questions about long-term cardiovascular health, microbiome diversity, nutritional adequacy, and dietary extremism.