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The Pilot of Your Life I just wanted to start this week by saying thank you. Thank you to those of you who take your time to read my weekly Newsletter. You reading them is a big motivation for me to keep writing! This week I wanted to share a quote that I love. "The...

Contemplation is a good word isn't it? We all use it differently to sneakily get away with not doing the things that we don't want to do. Contemplation for stroke survivors is powerful. Too powerful in fact. It takes hold of us and runs our life. Contemplation thinks...

During the process of having a stroke you are put into a state of ‘fight, flight and freeze’. Our body does this in an attempt to help protect us, yet our body does not know how to switch this state off with ease. Over time this ‘fight, flight and freeze’ state...

There was a time (about a year before I had my stroke) that I was flying to Poland with my mother (at age 16). We both looked out of the window and it looked as if we were flying into a desert. I said this to my mum, but she said “no, it is the snow”. I kept on...

It’s ok if you feel like “......” and have no idea what to do. Is it ok if you feel completely lost and are not sure where to start, or how to continue on? It is. It truly is, however yes it takes some practice to feel ok with not. Being ok, or with not knowing what...

Projects can help carry us along in life. It's as if when we stop focusing on ourselves a lot of the things in our life are taken care of. We all take on life in our own unique way and we all generally figure things out along the way, however as a stroke survivor our...

What if “being in the right frame of mind” was near impossible? It is literally impossible at specific moments to change what you do or say. As time passes and you are the stroke survivor, you should improve the amount of control you have over your thought process....

Perspective is a powerful and a beautiful word, yet can be used in the wrong context. It can hold positive power or negative power if left unchecked and in the wrong hands.. What do I mean by this? Well to every story that everyone on this earth has, we all have our...

Reading is an interesting thing to do isn't it? It's beautiful, mystic, enticing and overall is a lovely thing to do. To sit back, relax and forget all the worries in this world, is, well its beautiful.. To be carried away to an imaginary land of wonder. To be carried...

What is the solution? What is the solution to where to go next after you've had a stroke, or even midway through your recovery? Luckily my mother started researching to try to find the best therapist/s to help me continue moving forward with my stroke recovery. She...

Mindfulness is a big topic and we could talk about this for days.. Mindfulness for stroke survivors however is slightly different. How can a stroke survivor be mindful if either their mind is racing, or if they are not “fully present?”. Put simply the solution is...

Being a stroke survivor is not easy is it? There are many, many, many different areas of your life that you now have to learn to live with, within a limited range so that you don't overdo it and “crash”.. It is ok if you can learn to live within a certain range if you...