The Shift: Parkinson's, Communication, Health & Living Well

A collection of practical insights, clinical expertise, and real-life perspective to help you communicate more confidently, navigate Parkinson's disease, support loved ones, and live with greater resilience.

Written by Jessica Ackerman, MS, CCC-SLP, RYT, Speech-Language Pathologist and Yoga Teacher, these articles explore Parkinson's communication, voice, swallowing, cognition, caregiving, health, mindset, and the everyday moments that shape quality of life.

Because how you think, communicate, and connect shapes how you live.

Learn. Grow. Stay connected. Live with greater clarity and confidence.

A Wave in the Ocean
Pandemic, Vulnerability, Self-Improvement Jessica Ackerman Pandemic, Vulnerability, Self-Improvement Jessica Ackerman

A Wave in the Ocean

Right now, we are in a global and personal crisis, and we are being asked to hold many big emotions and sensations in the one container of our being. Joy with sorrow. Trust with fear. Boredom with anxiety. Patience with uncertainty. And it is coming up as a general feeling of stress. A pressing on our system. And as a system, we are really one organism, all of us, connected. And we cannot really compartmentalize; because that "stress" reaches beyond the bounds of our individual selves. Together, the nature of our experience is vast and diverse, fragile and fleeting.

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Epic habits to make your routine flow.

Epic habits to make your routine flow.