Support Multiple Sclerosis: The Woman Behind the Mission

I met Tracy the way I meet most of the interesting people in my circle, through networking. I was running events at the time and needed some virtual assistance, so we started working together. What I saw was someone calm, capable, quietly getting things done. What I didn’t see, not for a while, was everything she was managing underneath that.

It came out over coffee – Tracy mentioned that she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2016.

MS is a neurological disease where the immune system attacks the central nervous system, the brain, the spinal cord, the nerves that run everything. Pain, extreme fatigue, vision problems, memory loss, numbness in parts of the body. No two days are the same, and you never quite know how you’ll wake up, or what the day will ask of you.

Even after she told me, I don’t think I fully grasped what that life looks like from the inside. Tracy doesn’t let you wallow in it with her. She plays down the hard stuff, finds the funny in the ordinary, and has this wonderful giggly laugh that just takes over a room.

She’s also raising two teenage boys, so her days can’t pause for MS. School runs still have to happen, responsibilities still have to land, and leadership is expected every single day.

After living with MS for ten years, Tracy decided to support the MS community; she founded the Support Multiple Sclerosis foundation. Her goal is simple but powerful: to make sure people understand what this disease really is, and to show how much of a difference it makes when the people around you get it. She spreads knowledge, offers mentorship, and fundraises for initiatives that support MS patients and their families. She started nationally, and the plan is to go international.

One of the steppingstones was when Tracy was selected as a finalist for the International Women’s Club Awards in London in 2025, in the category of Leader of the Year. This award recognises women for their compassion, their community impact, and the way they show up for others. It was then that Tracy realised just how much she could do to support people with MS, and Support MS truly began.

Today, I stand beside Tracy – a woman who wakes up every day not knowing what her body will do yet she has decided to use her experience to make life a little easier for the people who come after her.

If you’d like to be part of this journey, reach out to Tracy directly on WhatsApp. She’s ready to chat.