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If you're sad," French fashion designer Coco Chanel famously said, "add more lipstick and attack." The effect is less powerful, however, if your application is more Picasso than empowering. Painting [...]

Raven Henderson remembers the time she had to use her cane on the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Snowmobile Tour bus because her multiple sclerosis was upsetting her balance. A [...]

In springtime, you can find Astrid Baran on her hands and knees in the dirt among a tiny forest of 50 pepper plants, delicately dabbing the center of a dime-sized, [...]

Pretty much everything Julie Gaines says, touches or does is funny. Her humor is her superpower. She can't not be quirky, or self-deprecating, or just charmingly, infectiously, funny. Owner of [...]

Tim and Betty Walker sat waiting on a phone call from a neurologist about their daughter, Kelly. High school sweethearts, the couple attended the University of Colorado together, married in [...]

Sarah Quezada's kids, Lola, 10, and Julian, 8, were frustrated, disappointed and angry. One summer day a few years ago, the family was at the town fair in Ontario, California, [...]

Bryan Rodriguez was just 16 years old when his mother, Luz Loeb, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A single mom of three who balanced family, education and career, Loeb moved [...]

When I still had the use of my hands, I used to load up my paintbrush and hurl a glob of paint against my studio wall, as a way of [...]

New Yorker Yulia Steshenko lives steps from North America's largest public transportation system. Operated by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), it includes 472 subway stations and 418 bus routes, [...]

Teresa Eichner was at a backyard Christmas party in 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida, when she asked her long-time pal Andy Goethe if he would help her host a small bourbon [...]

It was 6 a.m. on a Saturday in October 2021, a beautiful fall morning, the first of the two-day, 150-mile-long Bike MS: Arizona fundraiser. And Laura Leigh Birdwell was ready [...]

Back in 1995, Blake Scheider met three guys at an 'UGLY ('Understanding, Generous, Lovable You') bartender contest in Pennsylvania who had been raising funds for multiple sclerosis. Together, they came [...]

Sarah Addison remembers feeling terrified when she found her mother, DeLeon Addison, paralyzed in bed while visiting her maternal grandparents at their home in Huntley, Illinois. It was 2020 and [...]

When members of the Finding Your Voice writing group turned in their first assignments, the instructors saw a disaster: run-on paragraphs, poor grammar, incorrect verb tenses. But they also saw [...]

Tom Bellas has a gift for words. He describes himself as 'a casual writer,' but there is nothing lackadaisical about his prose. He has three unpublished novels under his belt, [...]

No way Fred Schwartz should be skydiving. No way. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1994, and since then, the disease has not been his friend. Neither of his [...]

People with MS get a lot of questions. Here's how you can answer--or not. People living with multiple sclerosis face all kinds of questions--some serious, others out of left field. [...]

Rosa Ynez, 37, participated in her first Walk MS in 2022 in Los Angeles. 'It really opened my eyes to a world of support I didn't know existed,' she says. [...]

Kate Perkins had tried everything--from medication to warm wheat bags--to relieve the multiple sclerosis pain wracking the right side of her body. Defeated, exhausted and overwhelmed, she kneeled in front [...]

The MS movement remains resilient. The winners of our 2020 Inspiration Awards went above and beyond to keep us moving forward during challenging times. Dawnia Baynes sees obstacles as opportunities. [...]

If there was one philosophy that drove the late Sylvia Lawry, founder of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, it would be the framed quote that hung in her office: 'Never [...]

Scroll through Christina Roach's @mybalancedstyle Instagram and Facebook pages, and at first, you may think it's simply a place to discover ways to harmonize your wardrobe, beauty routine and home [...]

Summer can be the perfect season to travel to locations far and wide. However, health issues, safety concerns, limitations imposed by the pandemic, financial considerations and a number of other [...]

Recently divorced after a 25-year marriage, Bruce Ungar was at a loss. His teenage daughter had just moved in with him, and Ungar wanted--needed--to find a way to spend their [...]

As Leigh Krauss climbed the last of the 1,215 stairs to the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City during the 2019 Climb to the Top, she [...]

When Josh Shipley was just 4 years old, his dad took him to the Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona, to watch the car races there. The youngster immediately fell in [...]

As days grow shorter and temperatures drop, the urge to hibernate through the winter months might seem appealing. Cultivating and maintaining social connections, however, is critical to wellness. And while [...]

Warren Torrence started supporting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 1998 when he and his father first participated in Bike MS: Breakaway to the Beach, riding 150 miles from Rockingham, [...]

Making things better for others is second nature for 36-year-old Diane Kramer. Growing up, she spent Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, pitching in at the USO and brightening the holidays [...]

When Andy Rafferty was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis at age 22, he made a conscious decision not to have children even though he'd always wanted them. He recalls thinking [...]

Among the things that residents of a Dallas apartment complex see when they look out their windows is a 28-year-old woman with a radiant smile, wearing plush knee pads and [...]

MS symptoms can cause mobility and coordination issues but there are ways to modify activities to fit your abilities. Here are a few. * Gardening. Whether you grow a few [...]

Four months after giving birth to her second child, Kimi Deyarmond woke up with cloudy vision in her right eye. By noon, she couldn't see out of it at all. [...]

J.R. Hardenburgh and Nick Bryan-Brown take the motto 'embrace the challenge' to heart. The two met at a multiple sclerosis support group in 2014 in Boston and became friends when [...]

Imagine this: Before you, slice upon slice of melt-in-your-mouth beef brisket beckons. Ridiculously tender pork ribs that basically shimmy off the bone. What's more, plump smoked sausages compete for your [...]

Fundraisers in the Midwest frequently focus on golf tournaments or dinners. But a group of people in Indianapolis decided to take a different approach. 'We wanted to do something that [...]

The battle lines were drawn early on the playgrounds of Forest Trail Elementary School in Austin, Texas. Batman, Wonder Woman and their allies huddled on one side. A determined squad [...]

I experienced my first clear multiple sclerosis symptoms when I was 13 years old. I was diagnosed in 2010, at the age of 15. Due to the 'invisible' nature of [...]

It's Spring! Time for Walk MS, the largest gathering for people affected by multiple sclerosis in the world. When it launched in 1988, we had 42 sites across the country [...]

You might know him as 'The Blinking White Guy', but Drew Scanlon--as he's known in real life--is using his hilarious meme to raise serious funds and awareness to benefit people [...]

Brandi Denton Gatewood got lost but found resilience. Brooke Simon met llamas. C.B. Dushane climbed higher. As cyclists who participate in I Ride with MS know, it's not the destination. [...]

I created this piece in honor of my late father, Robin Flowers, who lived with multiple sclerosis for many years. Throughout his life, he had many creative talents. He wrote [...]

When actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler publicly disclosed her relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis diagnosis last January, she really wasn't sure what to expect. 'I woke up that day in tears, feeling vulnerable, exposed [...]

When I was a teenager, I received a watercolor set. I didn't know it at the time but that gift would become my saving grace. To me, crying is considered [...]

Summers have always been miserable for me with fatigue and tingling pain in my legs. I was always told that these symptoms were due to allergies ever since I was [...]

Though it was still autumn in Orange County, California, the whoosh of winter winds and rollicking Bavarian accordion music filled the air. An abominable snowman roared among the palm trees, [...]