Self-management

Retrain Your Brain, Retrain Your Mast Cells

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O'Brien's talk 'Retrain Your Brain, Retrain Your Mast Cells'. We don't often think of our body's cells or our physical brain when we think of the word resilience. Typically, we think of resilience in terms of our emotional ability to bounce back after a jarring event. Resilience, however, can also be applied to our physical body and its ability to adjust to challenges and changes that we may experience. Our brains continue to develop throughout our lifespan. Join us as we explore what retraining our cells, especially mast cells, and retraining our brains might mean when it comes to mast cell activation reactions and our strategies to support brain health and body health when managing mast cell activation reactions.

Foods and Inflammation

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from live Well with Chronic Illness webinar 'Foods and Infammation'. In this talk, we will be exploring some of the foods that can provoke inflammation and some of the foods that can help reduce it, and how we can use these foods to help us with MCAS.

Dysautonomia

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar on 'Dysautonomia'. Dysautonomia is an umbrella term used to classify multiple disorders in which the autonomic nervous system isn't working properly. Join us! Together we'll explore this vital area of health--our nervous system--and the important role that mast cells play in nervous system function. We'll examine some specific health conditions within the dysautonomia category to better understand how a nervous system-mast cell connection informed approach can augment interventions and strategies for improving health, wellness, and symptom management.

Your Safe Haven at Home

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar on 'Your Safe Haven at Home'. We all need a safe haven; a space we can retreat to from the pressures and demands of our lives. The need for a safe haven for people with MCAS and mast cell activation related issues and disorders is vital. Join us! Hosted by Roselle O'Brien, we will explore the realities of "safe haven" in the mast cell world, what it means, what it entails, crucial elements---and why it's so essential. Add to the tools in your ever-growing toolbox of health supports with insights and strategies for creating your safe haven

Stress and Mast Cells

PowerPoint slides from Roselle O Brien's webinar on 'Stress and Mast Cells'. Together we'll explore how stress impacts us physically in our bodies, the role it plays with mast cells and in mast cell activation, and some strategies for managing stress, the stressors in our lives, and mast cell activation reactions that can be brought on by stress.

Pillars of Health

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness's webinar 'Pillars of Health'. Regardless of what medical diagnosis you have, there are certain things that are foundational to health for all of us, and working on these ‘pillars of health’ can only improve the situation for any health condition. Deborah will share her unique ‘Health Discovery Framework’ with us, which she uses with her own clients.

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live well with chronic illness's webinar 'The Neuroscience of Mindfulness'. Find out more about the neuroscience of how Mindfulness works, and how everyone can develop their own unique mindfulness practice to support them to manage difficulty and feel better—EVEN if you struggle to sit still, switch off and relax!

Understanding Lyme Disease – a general introduction to Lyme

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live well with chronic illness's webinar 'Understanding Lyme Disease – a general introduction to Lyme'. This talk teaches you how to be Lyme Aware. For many people, there is a significant overlap between Lyme Disease and MCAS, and Lyme can be an underlying root cause for MCAS.

How to be Heard: Advocating for yourself within the NHS

PowerPoint slides from Vicky Pearson's webinar 'How to be Heard: Advocating for yourself within the NHS'. This event was designed to help individuals learn how to approach MCAS whilst accessing medical care within the NHS and how to advocate for yourself as a patient.

How to Sleep Well

PowerPoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live well with chronic illness webinar on 'How to Sleep Well'. We all know that a good night's sleep is important for our wellbeing, but MCAS can badly affect our sleep. In this talk we will explore what sleep is, why we need it, and how we can support our body to get as much good quality sleep as possible.

Immune Health - How to Fight off Bugs and Viruses Naturally

Powerpoint slides from Deborah Bircham from Live Well with Chronic Illness' webinar 'Immune Health - How to Fight off Bugs and Viruses Naturally'. When we live with MCAS, we often find we have lowered immunity and catch colds and bugs more easily. In this talk, we will look at how the immune system works, and how we can support it to function optimally using diet and lifestyle measures. What are some natural ways to boost immune health, to keep us well and free from viral infections?

The Histamine Bucket Theory

This histamine bucket theory is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.

Life Audit

Are you meeting your Core Needs? Conducting a life audit can be an insightful exercise to help you evaluate and enhance your overall wellbeing.

Triggers

This resource details some of the more common triggers of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

Symptoms of MCAS

This resource details some of the more common symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

Recipe Conversion

You can use this blank recipe conversion page to note down any MCAS friendly changes you have made to your favourite recipe's.

MCAS Self-management toolkit

This toolkit contains information about substances in food and in the environment that can affect mast cell activity or trigger MCAS symptoms. It also includes practical advice to help you understand and avoid these triggers, as needed.

MCAS symptom log

The histamine bucket exercise

This histamine bucket is a useful visual aid in trying to understand the impact of factors contributing to histamine levels.

Medication log - adult

A medication timetable to log daily medications