Month: December 2014

Without making the link between the past and the present, our lives will never change and the help we get will have little or no impact.

When we leave the past behind without the understanding, history has a way of repeating itself because nothing changes, we fail to let go and move on. For us to make the link, we need to understand …

With two days to go to 2015, I thought I’d use this time to reflect on my year on The CP Diary.

I cannot believe another year has passed and I’m still writing about my experiences, whilst putting my experiences and life into context. Since I set up my website just over four and a half years ago, I have …

As a small child, my mum used to tell me that a leopard can’t change its spots and I grew up believing it until I became the adult. I don’t believe it’s true. I believe people can and do change.

Whilst it’s true we work from well-established patterns, it’s not true that we can’t tweak, modify or alter aspects of those patterns. We absolutely can. If we continually unconsciously choose to blame others …

It hasn’t been a particularly stressful day, but I’ve talked myself into getting ill. My digestion takes a knock when I talk to much and then I struggle. Hoping for a better day tomorrow.

I have never understood why or how all of my thinking is black and white, but have come to learn that many individuals with developmental disability think this way.

I have never been fully aware of why things have to be done a certain way, and admit that I get stressed when I’m taken out …

We’re coming up to that time of year again when I begin to reflect on my life, what I have done and what I haven’t. What I wanted to do but never got around to, what I failed to do because of confidence issues, missed opportunities and living with regret.

Perhaps, therefore we should all now reflect and use 2015 as a turning point. It doesn’t have to be anything big, but something that will allow us to change the way we perceive our life, so that we have …

How many of us are the embodiment of acceptance when it comes to accepting other people? Perhaps our lack of tolerance comes from unconsciously expecting others to fall into line through our own expectations of them.

I never judge. I know that having cerebral palsy has made me more accepting of other people, because I see other people’s …