I’ve always been open about what I deal with, even before The CP Diary was introduced. It was my way of trying to understand, deal with and look for answers on my many issues that weren’t being addressed.
As they say a problem halved is a problem shared and although I still deal with issues, it feels easier when others can do relate. If I struggle I write a blog and if I find a way through, it’s in …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.”
RALPH MARSTON
Read on »PANZANELLA SALAD
‘Adapted from a Recipe from the Guardian’
Ingredients:
½ red onion, thinly sliced
1 red pepper …
Read on »I thought it helpful to elaborate further on this. Sadly, the self-righteous will always be blindsided by all that life offers. They will never learn anything about other people or other people’s lives, because they’re too focused on their own. Their life is about them.
Their holier than thou attitude, their moral superiority, taken from a sense that their beliefs and actions are of greater value than those of the average person stops them from learning about life, their …
Read on »Out of everything I deal with, my senses still bother me the most. Unless I find a resolve quickly on a particular issue, I usually have to physically remove the issue, so that it doesn’t leave me panicked, anxious and living in fear.
The same thing can happen around change. Although I am good with change, certain changes, which seem relatively little to someone else, can bring about problems through Sensory Processing issues.
Sadly, since Sensory Processing Disorder is something I will have to live and deal with for the rest of my life, it’s …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
ALEXANDER POPE
Read on »In this fast-paced world, we live in, we tend to place all our emphasis on work and not enough on our home lives, including spending time with our children. I think we tend to lose sight of what’s important.
Work or daily stress mustn’t interfere with our ability to think about how we want to live and live our lives. Our home …
Read on »From a young age, we develop our own identities, through self-image and through that self-image we create perceptions of how we view ourselves, our beliefs and our world.
We genuinely believe we see the world realistically and act in rationale ways. Sadly, when our own thoughts and behaviour are challenged, or accusations are thrown at us, the self-image we have developed …
Read on »I continue to find it difficult to believe that I was kept in the dark for 46 years not knowing I had Cerebral Palsy.
I compare my sorry experiences to that of a TV programme I recently watched about a 6-year old boy who had Spastic Quadriplegia and was having his home adapted to support his needs with his parents and …
Read on »Something inspirational:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
UNKNOWN
Read on »
Community