Tripping Through Treacle Stumbling Through Life with MS

How to support your child emotionally, when you have a chronic illness or disability

Updated on March 15, 2018March 15, 20186 CommentsSpoonie Parenting

Supporting Children When a Parent is Chronically Ill

My children might not need me as much physically anymore – they can get themselves dressed, make their own breakfast …

Updated on December 17, 2018March 9, 20182 CommentsMS Life

What People Need to Know in MS Awareness Month

This is an update on a post I wrote last year about MS Awareness. The thing is, many people don’t really know …

Updated on March 6, 2018March 1, 2018Leave a CommentSpoonie Parenting

Snow!

Just a quick blog post from me today, but one that I thought was important to write due to the …

Updated on April 2, 2019February 27, 201810 CommentsHealthy Living with MS Mental Health

Tell Us About… Mindfulness

I am pleased to say that, following my Meditation Challenge, I have managed to maintain my meditation practice, making sure …

Blog post for trippingthroughtreacle.com on word finding strategies for those with chronic illness. There is a picture of the top of the man's head standing in front of a blackboard with lines drawn in chalk above it to show that he's thinking the blog title is written in a square above his head and trippingthroughtreacle.com written to the left of his head

Updated on November 1, 2021February 19, 201838 CommentsMS Life

Word-Finding and Chronic Illness

‘Your sandwich is on the sofa’. Just this morning, I managed to confuse my son with thinking that I had …

Hi! I'm Jen. I am a 40-something Mum to teens, living with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. I love coffee and cocktails and use meditation, yoga and healthy eating to help manage my health. Read on to get a peek into my MS-life!