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All year long, the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group promotes epilepsy education for patients, their caregivers, medical treatment staff, and the general public. Team Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group participates in several epilepsy walks and many different fundraising activities that directly benefit the national or local epilepsy foundations and advocacy societies. Check out our upcoming schedule and you may find an activity that interests you.

Epilepsy Book Club

The NEREG Epilepsy and Seizure Book club is begining to meet again in November and the first book of the year comes from an author living with nonepileptic seizures.

November 25, 2026

12 noon

The Softest Blade — Matina Alexis’s Poetry Collection

The Softest Blade: The Heavy, The Half-Way, and The Healing is a raw, confessional poetry collection by Matina Alexis that traces a journey from buried trauma to self‑acceptance, blending personal narrative with universal themes of resilience and healing.

Matina Alexis is a poet and writer whose work centers on trauma, healing, and the quiet strength of rebuilding from within. Her own diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) revealed repressed childhood trauma, shaping her understanding of pain, resilience, and self‑compassion.

The Softest Blade: The Heavy, The Half-Way, and The Healing: Alexis, Matina: 9798993596310: Amazon.com: Books

To register for our book club, email dramyers@yahoo.com