This document provides advice for coping with life when it does not go as planned and offers strategies for developing resilience. It emphasizes the importance of communication within relationships, prioritizing needs, utilizing healthcare professionals, and maintaining flexibility. Developing resilience involves challenging oneself, committing to goals, feeling in control, self-awareness, optimism, and effective coping strategies. While the beginning cannot be changed, it encourages starting from the current situation and working to change the outcome.

1. LIFE’S NOT GONE AS
PLANNED
&
THAT’S OK
Marie & Stuart Nixon MBE

3. 3 IN A BED: YOU, ME & MS

6. COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION

7. COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION

8. FOCUS ON PRIORITIES
Accepting where we are
Discussing things between us & our family
Use our professionals
MS Nurse, GP, Neuro, Physio
Learn to love our equipment & adaptations
Keep our goals flexible

10. Life’s the
racetrack
Healthcare’s
apitstop

11. Making it all happen: Living by the P’s
Plan
Prioritise
stay Positive
be Persistent & stay flexible
build Partnerships

12. DEVELOPING RESILIENCE
• Challenge
• Commitment
• Personal Control
Susan Kobasa
• Self awareness
• Optimism
• Coping Strategies
Juliet Heaton

13. You can’t go back & change the
beginning but you can start where
you are & change the ending…
C.S. Lewis

15. IT’S JUST WHAT WE
DO…