Living with cerebral palsy is enormously difficult. But what if you never knew you had it? This is ‘my story.’
Born the second of premature twins, from a young age I knew I was different, but for all the wrong reasons. A child of the 60s, I experienced first-hand the way that disability was so often brushed under the carpet and not spoken about. My constant physical and mental struggles made me feel isolated, alone, frustrated, and misunderstood… it took 46 years for me to find out why.
Part memoir, part motivational guide, Cerebral Palsy: A Story is my open and honest journey from an angry, confused child, knowing something was wrong, but not knowing what, to the ‘real’ me, using my experiences and lessons to create inspiring messages about mental and physical health, positivity, resilience and change.
It is because the UK chose to leave the EU in 2016 that I was already looking at and dealing with a different set of circumstances when I was published in January 2020.
So, the UK had already agreed to leave the EU when my book Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’ was officially published by @ReddoorBooks in January 2020; in March 2020 we were also dealing with Covid-19 …
Read on »My journey in a book is based around my difficulties of living with a disability I didn’t know I had. Those were difficult times, it’s been a difficult life.
My realities are delivered in a way that others can understand and will resonate with, as if my journey were theirs too. As I take a journey through my experiences, I remember those as if they happened …
Read on »My book is not only a blueprint of my life and of my disability, based on my experiences and how I see the world, it also connects each of us together through universal truths. Universal truths teach others how to treat us, by what they know we will tolerate.
My book Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’ Finding the Calm after the Storm, gives each of us clarity, allowing us to make connections with ourselves, our lives and our experiences. It gives me clarity on my …
Read on »My Book is based on my story. It has taken courage for me to write about my disability and my experiences in my book: Cerebral Palsy ‘A Story’ Finding the Calm after the Storm. It wasn’t an easy book to write.
I could have gone along with what my family wanted, not look into, or write about or learn about my disability, or my symptoms, but that would have continued to keep me in the dark. I cared too much, but I …
Read on »It became clear the more I struggled the more I couldn’t live without knowing what my disability was. I say it again that I thought I would have to go to the grave without knowing. Mentally what does that do to a child?
Dealing with a disability is physically and mentally draining. Add not knowing what you deal with into the equation and it goes …
Read on »I’m not a celebrity, but I do have ‘A Story’ to tell. My Book: Cerebral Palsy ‘A Story’ not only takes me on my own journey but it takes the reader by the hand on their own journey too. It is perfect for Covid19 times.
My book shows us a different way to be. It helps us to cope in these difficult times. Where you may be feeling tense and uneasy about the road ahead, it will bring about more calm and peace. Where you’re going …
Read on »The pandemic and Brexit continue to have a bearing on my book Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’. On the day I was officially published, Covid19 had already hit UK news. We went into lockdown too late.
My Book Cerebral Palsy: ‘A Story’ Finding the Calm after the Storm part memoir, part motivational guide is a feel-good factor book, particularly appropriate for covid times. It allows us to ponder our lives …
Read on »Although my disability is responsible for my writing journey, I am humbled by the fact that I have done well in spite of what happened to me.
As I write, going through my past, present and future in my mind, are all happening right now. As the American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, William Faulkner recalled, “the past is never dead; it’s not …
Read on »Writing my book although cathartic, was difficult; not a decision taken lightly, but coming to a realisation that without writing about my disability, I would still not know about my disability today.
I needed to get past just knowing I had a bad leg and foot. I needed to know about my mental and emotional struggles, why I was failing and why I got to this place without knowing. I needed to bring my life together …
Read on »My Book shows we can all change our lives that just because we start one way doesn’t mean we have to continue the same way. As I have changed my own life, my book shows you how you can change your life too.
The difference between change and non-change is us staying ‘present.’ For us to change and find peace in our lives, we must continue to live in the present, having dealt with the past, and then work and …
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