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Don’t believe everything you think
I have been trying to work on my anxiety and confidence recently. It’s something I have struggled with most of my life but obviously becoming paralysed has heightened these issues. I try and sweep my feelings under a carpet but sometimes you can’t forget and you are forced to face them. I am no exception.…
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Perfectly living in an imperfect world.
It’s amazing how you can get through many months not pinpointing a certain date until something so specific to yourself lands on that date. The day to anyone else doesn’t mean anything but to you there’s something so meaningful to this certain time of the year. The day of my accident is something I will…
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Time.
Take a moment to look around you. Picture where you were a year ago today and what your life looked like then. How did you feel? Maybe your life isn’t exactly how you would like it to be right now but what do you have today that you didn’t have a year ago? I can…
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‘At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.’
So today is the anniversary of my accident. I am the sort of person to reminisce. Not in a self-pity or nostalgic way, I guess some may say in a reflective way. On that day 8 years ago, I had no overwhelming feeling that something terrible was going to happen, I had no intuitive…
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Something to tell you…
…. I’m pregnant! I never thought I would be writing something like this down it all seems so surreal even after 7 months. For me, the road towards pregnancy has been a long, battling, personal struggle. I’ve never taken the time to believe something so incredible could happen to me. At 22,…
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Don’t just exist, live
So, at the end of 2017 I was chatting to Nelly in the car and we were talking about our goals for 2018. It seems like I epically failed my main goal which was to blog more. I genuinely have no excuse and the truth is, blogging doesn’t come naturally to me. I can’t…
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Stronger than yesterday
It is still difficult to believe that I have been LIVING with a spinal cord injury for 6 years. 6 solid years, WOW, haven’t these 6 years been a beautiful chaotic story. I am constantly reminded with the 5th permanently tattooed in my memory and it feels like it was yesterday. Although no one signs…
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Flowers grow out of dark moments
I’ve been reflecting on a lot of things recently and flicking through photos I may have physically changed but I’m still me. I mean, I struggled for years to come to terms with accepting the fact I’m in a wheelchair so much so that I was hardly in it. I have many demons and being…
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Miami
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw Since venturing to Miami back in 2014, I’ve had this ongoing love affair with this beautiful warm, sunny place; I suppose it might be due to the weather that seems to keep me happy and healthy, finding ease to be able to…
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Blog 12
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen – Henry David Thoreau Because time passes by so quickly, it has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. The…