Sunday Conversations - January 19, 2025

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Last Updated: 01 January 2025 01 January 2025

Sunday Conversations has a new schedule in 2025

Events will be held every other month (starting in January)
Some months will have guest speakers.
Others will be community conversations about a topic important to the community

“Going into the new year, what are your hopes and dreams?”

A community conversation focusing on positive visions for the coming year.

Sunday, January 19, 2025, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Join with others to generate a positive outlook for the future. Hopes are always with us; dreams can be for things big or small. Hopes and dreams can bring us joy. Let’s imagine together and be inspired!

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Sunday Conversations - November 2024

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Last Updated: 30 December 2024 30 December 2024

“Your Doctors are Human Beings, Too!”

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time

Ruth H. Axelrod, MHSA, PhD

You may find it easy or challenging to relate to each of your doctors and other providers in ways that help you get what you need from them. Both doctor and patient contribute to that relationship, usually in different ways, based on our personalities, roles and expectations. This presentation and discussion aimed to offer you some tools that can help make that relationship both effective and fulfilling. The discussion was led by Ruth Axelrod, who drew on her career in healthcare and academia, as well as her personal health journey, to facilitate conversation.

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2024 Annual Event: A Powerful Paradigm for Living with Chronic Illness - Recording Available

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Last Updated: 06 November 2024 06 November 2024

2024 Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Annual Event

A Powerful Paradigm for Living with Chronic Illness 

Guest speaker: Patricia Fennell, MSW, LCSW-R, clinician, researcher, educator, and author

Recorded: October 26, 2024, 1:00 pm ET

Living with what was then commonly referred to as Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (or its popular pseudonym, “Yuppie Flu”), Patricia had experienced the disbelief, dismissal, fear, and isolation familiar to many of us. Drawing from her professional experience, she developed strategies and solutions for “taking back her life,” and then shared them.

In her work as research scientist, clinician, and educator, Patricia describes a powerful paradigm for understanding how ME/CFS challenges one’s very sense of self and role in society and, more importantly, how to go about accepting and managing those challenges.

We spoke with Patricia about her experience applying her methods to her clients, her experience teaching other health professionals in a variety of disciplines to use these methods, and how things have changed in the last three decades for those living with ME/CFS.

If you find this recording, or others on our channel, helpful, please support MassME: https://massmecfs.org/giving

Young Adult Support Group - Oct/Nov/Dec 2024

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Last Updated: 16 October 2024 16 October 2024

 Click here for full details and to register for the Oct/Nov/Dec session of our Young Adult Support Group