Recovery

Musician Podcasts

No Dip Without a Rise #146

I'm not the sharpest knife in the musician drawer. Disheartening. I wish I were better.…

Danny van LeeuwenOctober 24, 2021

Advocate Clinician Leader Podcasts

Crises: Opportunity for Children to Cope #142

Some people pull hand-over-hand for strands of hope and opportunity in the quicksand of tragedy.…

Danny van LeeuwenSeptember 19, 2021

Caregiver Clinician Consumer ePatient Family man Written Only

From the Inside Looking Out

At the #PCORI2017 Annual Meeting, Alan Alda showed us a simple mirror improv exercise (remember…

DannyNovember 5, 2017

Advocate Caregiver ePatient Written Only

The Personal Health Journey

The metaphor, Personal Health Journey, works for me. We're heading somewhere for health whether on…

DannyAugust 13, 2017

Caregiver ePatient Family man Written Only

Re-calibrating – Finding Balance

So, I have new MS lesions. I'm weaker, less stamina. A 3-days of IV SoluMedrol…

DannyDecember 29, 2016

Advocate Family man Written Only

Nowhere We Can’t Get to in an Hour

In our 30's we lived in West Virginia - very rural, back-to-the-land hippies, eight miles…

DannySeptember 4, 2016

Clinician ePatient Leader Written Only

The Thorny Thicket of Feedback and Advice

When I was diagnosed with MS, people came out of the woodwork with advice and…

DannyAugust 7, 2016

Advocate Caregiver Consumer Family man Written Only

I thank you God for this most amazing day

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of…

DannyNovember 8, 2015

Caregiver Consumer ePatient Family man Written Only

Belonging – a matter of perception

During the inevitable ups and downs of life, I feel better when I belong. The…

DannySeptember 21, 2015

Caregiver ePatient Family man Leader Written Only

Finite disappointment, infinite hope

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”― Martin Luther King, Jr. Mutual disappointment…

DannySeptember 13, 2015