Something inspirational:
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
Read on »Something inspirational:
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
Read on »We can never have peace of mind when we’re more concerned with what other people think. When we continually worry and lose sight of what is important, we can never have peace.
When we can’t focus, when we have little self-confidence, we will also struggle. However, when we can begin to understand and look at the bigger picture and know that it really doesn’t matter what other …
Read on »Although it’s often difficult for those of us with health issues to plan ahead, planning ahead for me primarily depends on how well I’m dealing with my health, whether I’m eating the right foods, whether I eat at the right times, or whether I go too long between meals.
It also depends on what I’m dealing with at the time. On a more positive note, I feel as though I am beginning to understand the correlation between the foods that I eat and the foods that make me ill. I’m getting …
Read on »We all know that high cholesterol increases our risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
Whilst it is possible to reduce cholesterol with medication, we can also make changes to our lifestyle to help reduce it too. Here are five healthy lifestyle changes that individually and combined can contribute …
Read on »I am pleased to announce that The CP Diary and United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) now have links to each others sites and would like to invite everyone to check out their site at http://ucpworkinc.org/
They do amazing work for people who have Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities.
Read on »Each life phase is hard. Being a child is hard. Being an adult is hard. Being a parent and parenting small children is hard but their issues are small. It’s not as hard as parenting adult children.
The security we put in place for our children when they’re small has to change as they grow into adults. It is inevitable that we will be faced with our children wanting to make their own decisions. It’s the …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”
HERMAN MELVILLE
Read on »We will spend a life accumulating clutter of the material kind, we will accumulate worry, negative self-talk and guilt, also known as ‘mental clutter.’
But all these things can become distractions after a while and can make us physically sick. When we learn to let go, we give ourselves more time to concentrate on the positive, as well as staying well in the …
Read on »In the last 7 years, I have been faced with many challenging decisions that I liken to a fork in the road.
A fork in the road reminds me that I have choices to make, a fork in the road reminds me that I have lessons to learn, it reminds me that life isn’t all that it seems that sometimes I need to make difficult choices …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN
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