Patti Bevilacqua, PhD, is dedicated to empowering women with multiple sclerosis. By sharing her story and experiences, she has inspired women around the world to adopt a new mindset and live full, joyful lives. Your life is not over, just different.

Living with a chronic illness can be frustrating. Those who have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, commonly known as MS, know all too well the difficulties that accompany the condition. One woman uses her story to show other women who have MS by sharing her Way of thinkingthey too can live the good life.

Patti Bevilacqua, PhD, is a dynamic speaker, coach, MS advocate, and international best-selling author. She is the founder of FEARLESS with MS, a program designed to help women with MS live their best selves through a mindset shift. This transformational process encourages women with MS to be self-aware and choose to move forward with boundless courage and a renewed passion for life.

MS is an autoimmune disease that breaks down the myelin sheath, or covering, of the tissue that covers nerve cells. It attacks the central nervous system and gradually weakens the body. Three out of four people diagnosed with MS are women.

People often describe MS as a thief that steals a person’s physical and cognitive abilities. It interferes with their ability to do their jobs, steals theirs identityand ultimately their future. Patti’s story is the culmination of over 20 years of dealing with pain and anguish. MS is notorious for its unpredictability and there is no known cure. As a result, women with MS often feel helpless, misunderstood and uncertain about their future.

Many of them have a deep desire to overcome their pain points and find joy in life. Patti knows this well because it was a significant part of her adult life. A former high school gym teacher, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in late 1989, before the end of her freshman year.

Five years later she…