The skin is closed. To anyone else, the battle looks won. The VAC pump is finally off, and there is a natural temptation to think you can finally jump straight back into normal life. But anyone who has ever survived a deep pressure ulcer knows the terrifying truth: closed skin does not mean fully healed tissue. Even …
Living with chronic pain while navigating life in a wheelchair can frequently make you feel like a passenger in your own skin. When your baseline is physical discomfort, the world often shrinks down to the boundaries of what hurts and what doesn't. The internal noise gets so loud that it drowns out who you actually …
September is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. Since 2007, a rare neurological illness called neuro mystica has left me paralysed from the T5 level and visually impaired. But numbers and medical charts only tell a tiny fraction of the story. To me, disability is the exhausting mental battle of having a mind that wants to …
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Finding Gratitude, Grace, Healing, and Power After Bed Rest I look into the mirror every day, expecting a familiar reflection. But then a period of medical crisis hits, and suddenly, the person looking back feels like a complete stranger. If you are standing in front of your mirror right now, wondering where "you" went after …
I recently wrote a post about the intense anxiety of living with a newly healed pressure wound. Shortly after publishing it, a wonderful reader reached out with some incredible advice that completely reframed how I view my current mental state. They reminded me of a fascinating piece of evolutionary biology that changed my entire perspective …
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I hit a massive milestone today. I am now successfully sitting up in my wheelchair for four hours at a time. If you had told me a week ago that I’d be managing a four-hour block, I would have laughed through the panic. My body is slowly finding its alignment again, the intense wonkiness is …
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There are weeks when the simple act of showing up for yourself feels like climbing a mountain. This past week has been one of them. Getting back up and into my chair after 6.5months in bed, has been a real struggle. If you’ve ever experienced those seasons where your body simply refuses to cooperate, you …
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The power of Breath to clear Anxiety Breath can be used as a tool to instantly shift your state in the moment. When you are in that spiral, you can tap into breath to instantly change how you are feeling, calming the nervous system & bringing you back to calm. We all tend to breathe …
Are you too busy to meditate? So many people say they don’t meditate because they don’t have the time!! Many of the Worlds high performers find time to meditate, as they know it will support them to be better at life, perform at the top of their game. So if they can do it, I’m …
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Meditation is one of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves spiritually, physically,mentally & emotionally. The goal of meditation is not about emptying the mind; it’s about understanding, taking control of how your thoughts contribute to the way you feel. People can find it hard to take that moment out to meditate, therefore …
Currently we are facing a massive world change & this can cause many emotions, one of them being fear. This can unsettle us, take us out of alignment due to the uncertainty of the new reality, which we don’t understand. If we constantly watch the news, read the papers, connect with parts of life that …
During times of challenge we can feel worry, anxiety, stress. Our breathing can shorten, breathing from our chest rather than deeper into our belly. Our mind can become foggy, filled with fear & listening to our monkey mind working overtime. To quieten the monkey, calm our mind, empower our body & connect back to self …
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