The PD Coach January 2017
THE PD COACH Discoveries made along my Parkinson’s journey Exercise and Parkinson’s. If you have PD you have been bombarded since diagnosis with the message that you need to exercise. Whether it’s dance or walking, running or resistance training, swimming or boxing,...
India, Elephants and Parkinson’s
When the trip was first announced I came home and immediately said to my wife, Sheryl, ‘I want to go on this trip’. The trip was to India. It was a service trip where individuals from our church were invited by churches in India to assist them in their work. Their...
A Lesson in Live Your Best (or The Popsicle Parky)
Frozen. But not in the way you would think. He's a born and bred Winnipeg boy so the fact that the mountainside was a brisk zero degrees Celsius, or thirty two degrees Fahrenheit, had little to do with the fact that he could not move. He had pushed just a tad bit too...
Shakin’ It Up at #WPC2016
We are live in Portland, Oregon at the 4th annual World Parkinson's Congress! What an incredible opportunity this is for Sheryl and me, along with a number of friends from Winnipeg, to rub shoulders with Parkinson's fighters from around the globe. The World...
Live Your Best…In the Mud!
It has been an incredible summer as I have worked at learning new ways to realize the full meaning of Live Your Best! Having left my nursing career due to Parkinson's last December I have been experiencing how to refocus my energies as a Parkinson's advocate,...
Contentment – A Peaceful & Happier You
I have always loved spring. Especially as a boy back in KC (Kansas City). The thunderstorms were to die for! I loved the heat and the humidity that would roll in to create mighty clashes with the cool air setting off tremendous thunderstorms and, often enough,...