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Yasmin Neves

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We’re a charity helping people live well with MS. Your donation means we can reach more people!

Yas is a coach, speaker, and successful entrepreneur who is passionate about the mind-body connection. Yas is a true people person and is often told that she doesn’t seem very HR-y. Through her diagnosis of MS, she became obsessed with the mind-body connection and began her education in personal and professional coaching. Yas learned more about how our thoughts and feelings impact our lives and how to implement changes on an unconscious level.

Today, she is a coach, speaker, and successful entrepreneur, running a multi award winning HR Consultancy, Healthy HR and working the land of her smallholding. Yas is proud to sit on the tribunal for employment claims in England and Wales. She is passionate about creating workplaces where people can bring their whole selves to work and take full responsibility for their actions, beliefs, patterns, and behaviours. Imagine a culture free from judgment where people can increase their self-awareness and work on healing themselves through self-awareness and emotional regulation.

Watch Yas’s video on the Overcoming MS Program here

Read about Yas' personal journey with MS

“When I found Overcoming MS, it was just a little light in a very dark place and there was a little bit of hope that maybe there is a different path here… I still remember that feeling to this day.”

My MS diagnosis

I was diagnosed at the age of 29. And the diagnosis itself was completely life-changing. I had my first symptom a couple of years before that. I woke up one day and the vision in my left eye was a little bit off, a little bit blurred. And over a period of about five days, my vision completely deteriorated. It took me a little while to go and actually get some medical help because I was so stuck in the rat race. My manager at the time encouraged me to go to hospital. Then, lots of symptoms came out of the blue over a couple of years until I eventually got my diagnosis. When I had the diagnosis, my medical professionals didn’t really leave me feeling anything but terrified. Some of their comments terrified me, like ‘Go live your life now.’ I left my diagnosis appointment feeling completely lost and hopeless.

Hope and ongoing impact from Overcoming MS

When I found Overcoming MS, it was just a little light in a very dark place and there was a little bit of hope that maybe there is a different path here. Maybe there’s another option. I still remember that feeling to this day. So, what Overcoming MS means to me is this lightness, this feeling, which I can’t always put into words. It’s hope. There are things that you can do to help. I know that I’ve got so much more control over my future. And all these years in, I feel so much better, healthier, happier, more content. But Overcoming MS hasn’t just helped me improve my health. It’s had a knock on impact on lots of areas of my life. And I know I wouldn’t be who I am today without the charity.

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