Managing stress and anxiety with MS course (LWUK)

The course will take place virtually on Zoom over three sessions 3rd, 10th and 17th of September from 6pm until 7.30pm. To get the most from this course, we encourage you to attend all three sessions.

This course will allow you to engage with other people affected by MS, and together we will explore how we might deal with stress and anxiety while living with MS. We will look at the differences between stress and anxiety, learn how to recognise them and develop tools for managing them.

It is an interactive course, designed to complement the discussions you have while participating. There will be a handbook to accompany the course.

Over each of the weeks the course will look at the following themes:

• Stress and anxiety and how it affects us
• Stress, anxiety, and MS - understanding how stress and anxiety affect my MS and how my MS affects stress and anxiety
• Getting to know my stress and anxiety. What triggers it, how it shows up, and how it makes me feel?
• Working with stress and anxiety - building a tool kit to help me manage my stress and anxiety

We expect this to be a popular course and we have very limited capacity because we want to keep the numbers to a size that will facilitate maximum benefit to the participants. Please, therefore, only book if you are confident that you can attend, and if you discover later that you are unable to attend please cancel your place straightaway to give someone else an opportunity to attend.

Please note:

• The sessions are not tailored to any specific needs
• The sessions are designed for guidance, motivation, and educational purposes only
• No information should be taken as medical or professional health advice
• Each person taking part in the sessions should assess the activity and determine if it is appropriate for them

What will I need to take part?

All you need to join in is a laptop, tablet, phone or computer with access to a microphone and camera. You'll need a stable internet connection to use, Zoom, the video meeting software that we use.

What if I haven’t been sent the link?

We send an email with a link and some reading to everyone who books a place on Eventbrite. The email we send might go into your spam or junk folder. So please make sure you can find it before the session starts.

You can also access the session through your Eventbrite account.

What should I do if I can no longer attend?

If you find that you are unable to take part please get in touch at livingwell@mssociety.org.uk so we can offer up your place to someone else.