The CP Diary

Doing something that we know we may struggle with, seems a little odd, right? More scary than odd. I have already written a blog about exploring our boundaries and embarking on a journey, which continually challenges us, as far as comfort zones are concerned.

I thought I would elaborate further. I came across this quote, which caught my eye, by Juan Williams who talks about …

Something inspirational:

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

This topic is something I think we can all resonate with in one way or another, but if you’re lucky enough to have worked through your comfort zone and you’re where you want to be, then that’s great.

I was asked to go and pick my son up at the railway station so that he could come home, having made a surprise 6-hour trip to see us for the weekend. It was dark, I would be driving on my own and …

Although I managed to write another blog yesterday, I was still dealing with emotional stuff this week concerning my Cerebral Palsy. This morning I am feeling a lot better about things.

By telling myself that I need to bring peace back into my thoughts and that carrying negativity will do me more harm, I have managed to see the world differently this morning. My spiritual …

Researchers now agree with each other that we need between seven to nine hours of sleep that goes largely uninterrupted. Obviously not sleeping in the longer term may carry health risks.

Research has also shown that without sleeping well, we are four times as likely to feel depressed, twice as likely to become addicted and twice as likely to feel anxious. We may also be at risk of a …

I’m still blogging on the subject of Cerebral Palsy and seeing my Neurologist went well, but I feel frustrated and let down now by those who were involved in my life as a child and who should have been protecting me.

A diagnosis would have been good, anything that allowed me to know what I was dealing with. A diagnosis would have gone some way to explain some of my difficulties. Having started the ball …

This is where I’m at today. Having been to see another Neurologist yesterday, I came away feeling slightly negative, although the meeting wasn’t altogether negative. The fact that I am 47 years old and still trying to work things out around my Cerebral Palsy is making what I went through yesterday very negative.

The culmination of having had no emotional support and still having to work through the lack of information that is bringing me back to this place. I don’t intend for it to engulf my life, but I …

I never made the no emotional support I received as a child an issue, because I was self-sufficient. I got by. I was lucky I knew how to do that. Of course, because I didn’t have the support, I know how important it is to have support.

Being a support doesn’t mean we must try and fix other people’s problems, we just need to be a good listener and have a caring manner. We also need to make sure we don’t judge, even if we don’t …

Get inspired with inspirational quotes:

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man, healthy, wealthy and wise.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Ageing with Cerebral Palsy doesn’t please me. I have a pit in the stomach feeling every time I think about it.

On the whole I feel I do okay, but it’s stumbling across everything for the first time and having to deal with those issues that I find frustrating. It’s not just that what I deal with is for life, but as I age …