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Caregiving. Connection. Women’s brain health. 💙🧠📘
When The Unexpected Journey meets @maketimewellness, the mission comes to life.

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When The Unexpected Journey meets @maketimewellnes When The Unexpected Journey meets @maketimewellness 💙🌈🧠📘
Last night @theofficiallove.life, we gathered for an intimate afternoon of caregiving stories, conversations about women’s brain health, and Make Time mocktails.
We launched our 1 in 5 campaign: 1 in 5 women will develop Alzheimer’s. I didn’t know that either because no one is talking to women about their brains. But there are steps we can take today to change that.
At Make Time, we donate 5% of proceeds to @wearehfc, supporting families impacted by dementia, activating the next generation of Alzheimer’s advocates, and fueling brain health research and education. 💜
This is why we created Make Time: to get the world talking seriously about women’s brain health. Join the movement. ✨

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This is one term I wish I had brought up more duri This is one term I wish I had brought up more during the media tour for The Unexpected Journey. It doesn’t roll off the tongue easily and when you’re already nervous, forget about it. 
But I want to highlight it here: anosognosia.
It’s another complicated layer of navigating FTD, and I talk about it in my book as well as in my recent conversation with @katiecouric. 
Anosognosia is a neurological condition where the brain cannot recognize its own illness.
For Bruce, it meant he didn’t tap into his disease, which was a blessing, sparing him the awareness of that weight. For me, it was the curse of having to navigate it while carrying the weight of what he could not see.
This is the reality for many families facing FTD, and it deserves to be better understood. Someone messaged me and said: “I never knew this condition! I wish our neurologist had told me.”
The truth is, I didn’t learn this in the doctor’s office either. I learned it because I went digging for answers.
Honored that The Unexpected Journey is a #1 Publis Honored that The Unexpected Journey is a #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller! This is a data-driven sales list and a powerful reflection that we’re getting this book into all the right hands! Thank you 💙📘🙏🏽
Researchers are working hard to understand the gen Researchers are working hard to understand the genes that can cause FTD so they can develop treatments that benefit all families impacted and give them hope for a future free of FTD.
🌎 Click the link in my bio to learn more.
⬇️ To everyone who has faced decisions about genetic counseling, thank you for your courage. My hope is that you feel supported, connected to community, and reminded that you are never alone.

@theaftd @curemaptftd @curegrn @curevcpdisease @end_the_legacy #endFTD

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I’m honored to announce my first book, The Unexpected Journey, which is dedicated to my fellow care partners. The book is published by Maria Shriver’s imprint, The Open Field at Penguin Random House.

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