Author: Ilana

Although when I was growing up there was little in the media about food and the relationship between food production and the environment, it’s processing and our links to food; but I believe it’s important we think about the world, our place in the world, what it means and why we must start giving back.

Through my writing I have become even more conscious of how things are supposed to be and those are the things I write about. In the next few months I will be writing and adding more blogs on topic that …

As a continuation from my ‘Extra pieces of the jigsaw’ blog, as part of the co-occurring conditions I get to deal with I can also add, the next items to my list.

Symptoms of Sensory Processing disorder

Children and adults who have sensory processing disorder cannot properly process the sensory stimuli from the outside world and will have trouble interpreting information from one or more senses …

I’ll never know now because it’s way too late in the day, but it would have been that I would have had a little more to go on had my father and my consultants over the years discussed my disability and my presenting symptoms. You couldn’t make up what I’ve had to go through.

Cerebral palsy is the physical condition, but along side that I have Sensory Processing Disorder symptoms that are …

Growing older with cerebral palsy doesn’t come without its difficulties. Taking advice over the years from consultants who thought they knew what was best, like walking barefoot potentially hasn’t been the best advice.

Although walking barefoot nowadays has a lot to do with earthing, (connecting to the Earth’s natural energy by walking on grass barefoot) the consultant wasn’t referring to earthing. He wanted to make sure …