HELP ME WITH MY EPILEPSY: Recent Episodes

Discover the Possibility of Zero Seizures with Epilepsy Best-Selling Author and Epilepsy Coach Stacey Chillemi and Natalie Boehm, founder of Defeating Epilepsy Organization.

Stacey and Natalie have created a series of videos and podcasts to tackle the common issues and obstacles people endure with epilepsy. Topics that are not talked about but need to be addressed.

For example...

1. Coping with epilepsy and depression
2. Coping with epilepsy and anxiety
3. Suicide and epilepsy
4. Importance of eating healthy
5. Why you need to create a personalized healthy lifestyle to help you control your seizures
6. Epilepsy medications - Everything you should know
7. Epilepsy and mood disorders
8. Power of positive thinking
9. Epilepsy and healthcare
10. Communication with your epileptologist or neurologist
11. How to get through the rough patches
12. How to accomplish your goals and dreams living with epilepsy
13. What common conditions and illnesses tend to be related to Epilepsy
14. How to boost your self-esteem
15. Advice to help control or decrease the number of seizures you're experiencing
16. Coping with the emotional pain you struggle with inside
17. Coping with the physical pain of epilepsy (bruises, broken bones, concussions, etc...)
18. Epilepsy and Pregnancy - 2 moms share their view of going through a high-risk pregnancy
19. Raising children with epilepsy
20. Teaching your child about epilepsy
21. And much, much more...

We will be posting weekly. Subscribe or follow us to receive updates when they are posted.

ABOUT NATALIE BOEHM

Natalie was diagnosed with epilepsy at two due to a traumatic brain injury. Despite developing epilepsy, Natalie completed her education and found gainful employment. Natalie strongly feels that despite having epilepsy, there is no reason for her not to be productive and wants others with epilepsy to see that they can do the same.

Website: https://www.defeatingepilepsy.org/

ABOUT STACEY CHILLEMI

I am a # 20 TIMES BOOK AUTHOR, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, HEALTH & LIFESTYLE & EPILEPSY COACH, & HOLISTIC EXPERT. I am also the founder of https://thecompleteherbalguide.com

HOW IT BEGAN FOR ME

My mother woke up because she heard unusual noises coming from my room that sounded like I was choking on my saliva. She entered my bedroom to find me in my bed, turning blue and having a grand mal seizure. This was the first time I ever experienced a seizure.

During the seizure, I fell to the floor, my eyes rolled to the left, and my whole body began to shake. My teeth began to chatter, and I started to foam at the mouth and choke on my saliva and my skin color began to turn bluish because of the lack of oxygen I was enduring.

My mother ran to the phone to call the ambulance and had me rushed to the hospital. They brought me to the emergency room and hurried me to the isolation ward. They had no idea if any type of serious or contagious illness brought on the seizure.

They administered many tests to try to diagnose the cause of the grand mal seizure. The doctors finally concluded that the grand mal seizure came from a virus. This was not an ordinary virus. It was a virus known as encephalitis.

The doctors told my parents that the bacteria from the ear infection had traveled to my brain and the virus was still in my brain. They were told that the viral encephalitis had to leave my brain naturally on its own. I was in an induced coma for four days. After the 2nd day, my parents were told that if I survived, I would probably have severe brain damage or I could become paralyzed and paraplegic.

My parents were devastated, but they never gave up hope. On the fourth day, while I was in a coma, my father lay by my bedside and began praying to a saint in Greece. As he prayed he was visualizing the statue in front of his old church. In Greece, water would roll down this saint’s eyes. As my father raised his head and opened his eyes, he looked directly at me to...