Hello, I'm Molly, and I'm raising money to pay for treatment to help me heal from MS.

Over 19 years ago, I was diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis), and 4 and a half years ago, when my twins were 19 months old, I had a major relapse that rendered me bedbound and housebound for several months. To this day, I have significant restrictions in my daily life; I can't stand for longer than a few moments without experiencing pain in my hips and legs and can't walk (stagger) for more than a couple of hundred metres. I experience global fatigue, meaning I can't cook a meal or tidy the house or do simple activities like gardening and I have numbness and a strange burning sensation on the skin of my abdomen and legs. Some days I fear I don't even have enough strength or energy to shower. I spend most of the day sitting down and struggle to do simple daily tasks that most take for granted.

I am on a mission to heal from MS so I can lead a full and active life with my family, and I know it's possible.

What I'd like more than anything is to be able to go for a walk in the woods with my family and cook them a meal. To feel comfortable being more than 20 metres from a toilet at any given time and to alleviate the crippling hip pain. Beyond that, it would be amazing to be able to return to my work as a spoken voice coach and give something back to the world.

I know that people have healed from MS, so it is possible, but sadly there doesn't seem to be one method; the tools for healing are unique to each individual. In my quest to heal, I have explored various modalities from diet, nutrition, yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing, intermittent fasting, cold water therapy, psychological therapies and energy medicine. I engage in these practices continuously but have yet to find my unique recipe for wholeness and health.

I discovered the work of Terry Whals, who healed herself from multiple sclerosis using functional medicine and diet. She spent 4 years in a reclining wheelchair before discovering her methods and creating her protocol. She now cycles 18 miles to work daily, goes hiking and leads an active life. I started working with a Whals Practitioner nutritional therapist in January who has herself healed from MS and subsequently trained in Functional Medicine.

Alongside diet, Terry Whals talks about the different therapies that support healing, and her focus is on mitochondrial health as she believes MS is a disease of mitochondrial malfunction and inflammation. I practice various methods proven to strengthen the mitochondria, including cold showers and cold baths, certain types of breathwork and intermittent fasting.

One tool that Terry Whals uses regularly is full-spectrum infrared sauna.

There are now over 3,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies showing the incredible healing benefits of infrared and red light therapy, proving that they can help you:

Red and near-red light have the ability to penetrate into the cells, tissues, blood, nerves, brain and bones of the body where they can increase energy production, modulate inflammation, relieve pain, help cells regenerate faster, and much more.

For MS sufferers this is incredibly positive and could prove to be the missing link in my own broad and varied toolkit of strategies I'm using.

The cost of a medical grade full-spectrum infrared sauna is £10,500, and I would love to raise enough money to buy one to get the optimum benefits from it.

I'm looking at the mPulse Smart sauna from Sunlighten, a medical grade sauna which allows you to specify the balance of near, mid and far infrared, which each carry their own healing properties https://www.sunlighten.com/gb-en/saunas/mpulse-infrared-saunas/

I'm also looking at the sauna space sauna, which although isn't medical grade, has extremely low EMF levels and optimum near red infrared. Here is an amazing article about how beneficial for MS these saunas can be. https://terrywahls.com/near-infrared-light-and-heat-natures-most-powerful-healing-detox-solution/

Due to the chronic pain and muscle weakness throughout my body, I would also benefit from neurological physiotherapy to regain strength and reduce my pain, which I hope would enable me to walk further and be able to stand for long enough to cook a meal for my children without being in debilitating pain. I'm not sure how much I will need to spend on physiotherapy, but I hope to raise £1,240 for an initial course; anything raised above that would go towards ongoing therapy.

I work hard every day, taking cold baths, practicing fasting, eating consciously, taking supplements, doing breathwork and working on my psychological patterns and I am very determined to heal so I can lead an active life with my family and be able to do smile things like gardening and cooking for my family. If I were able to raise enough money for a sauna and some targeted physiotherapy I would be incredibly grateful and it would so boost my healing process, hopefully turning things around completely and allowing me to repair the damage to my nerves and prevent further damage. If that were to happen I would live in joy and gratitude every day.

Thank you for any support you can offer. It's difficult for me to ask for help and is itself part of my healing process, and you've no idea how supportive and encouraging even the smallest gesture is to me.

With deepest gratitude.

Molly