Healing after a spinal cord injury isn't a straight line. Discover how building a daily routine of regular movement—even on the days you don't want to—acts as a powerful catalyst to ease nerve pain, calm the mind, and build lasting strength. The Power of Routine: My 4 Daily Fitness Non-Negotiables When you are navigating life …
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If you live with a spinal cord injury (SCI) and navigate the unpredictable waters of chronic illness, you already know the invisible weight we carry every single day. When your body operates under a completely different set of rules, "being well" becomes a full-time job. It is an active, ongoing, and often exhausting pursuit. You wake …
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 …
Continue reading Why My Brain Won’t Let Me Celebrate My Healed Wound (Thanks, Caveman Amygdala)
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 …
Continue reading The Art of Slowing Down: Finding Balance in My Chair Through Qigong
Although exciting to be starting a new phase in my life, it’s been something I have been waiting for, for so long, it is scary at times too. Our bodies & subconscious are programmed to do what makes them feel safe & secure, even if these are old habit, patterns & thought systems that no …
For instance - ‘I have to workout’ - by saying it this way, we are putting pressure on ourselves, which can lead to falling at the first hurdle b So why not flip it, Rather than saying ‘I have to’ - why not try saying ‘I get to’ This simple reframe can take the pressure …
Write a RAGE journal!! Yes, you read that right, a rage journal… Get all of that negativity, anger , self doubt, frustration, pain out of your body & onto paper. Don’t hold back on your emotions, let them out by writing down everything you need to say, think, feel. Release those negative energies, let it …
