Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis
Health & Fitness:Fitness
Welcome to Living Well with MS Coffee Break #19, where we are pleased to welcome Joia Lewis as our guest!
Our Coffee Break series is your chance to get to know members of our diverse OMS community. In each episode, you’ll join Geoff Allix for an intimate chat with a different member of our global community. Our guests will share their personal stories and talk about their challenges and victories, large and small. We hope you find common cause and a source of inspiration from the stories of these very special people.
As always, your comments and suggestions are always welcome by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. We hope you enjoy this episode’s conversation with Joia, beaming to you straight from the Estoril in Portugal.
Bio:
Joia Lewis was born in Portugal to missionary parents and lived there for 10 years until the family returned to the United States. In college she studied violin at the Boston Conservatory and Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, before spending a year traveling throughout Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East. Seeking to continue studies in both the humanities and sciences, she completed graduate work at Indiana University for a PhD in the Philosophy of Science. 30 years of teaching scientific reasoning, logic and medical ethics also include raising her daughter in California and working for a software company there and in Minnesota. She was diagnosed with PPMS in 2009 and taught 5 more years until full medical retirement and disability in 2014. Her symptoms were fortunately stable enough to allow for moving back to her birthplace in Portugal in 2018, where she currently lives near Lisbon and works on her many writing projects.
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Coming up on our next episode:
Tune in on July 21, 2021 for the third installment and special summer edition of Ask Jack, our special 5-part series where certified OMS foodie and professional chef Jack McNulty answers cooking- and food-related questions from you, our OMS community. This episode is all about picnics and grilling, so have a listen and you’ll be sure your summer meals are both tasty and OMS-friendly. And remember, you can submit your questions for future Ask Jack episodes by emailing them to podcast@overcomingms.org.
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