G’day, friends, and welcome back!! I have always struggled most of my adult life with feeling confident, attractive and desirable. For the last 18 months, I have been trying to figure out why I believed them and how I could feel confident, desirable or attractive. Desirable, attractive and disabled have […]
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I had to do something drastic to prove to myself that I am more than just a label and I am more than my disability. Everyone is more than just a label
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G’day, friends, and welcome to another week and another post. Since I was a young girl, spontaneity has never been in my wheelhouse. I have always been someone who has had to plan things out days in advance, and if anything came up out of the blue, the anxiety went wild, and I would
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G’day, friends, and welcome to the first blog post of 2024! I hope you all had a great Christmas and an even better New Year! I spent my New Year with family in Bundaberg but was as sick as a dog, believe it or not! So, my New Year was spent dealing with congestion
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G’day, friends and welcome to the last blog post of the year! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and still enjoying the last couple of days off before the new year begins! Every year, I do a year in review, which is so nice to reflect on the year past and look ahead
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G’day, friends and welcome back to another week and another post! Given the heartbreaking and unfortunate circumstances last week, I didn’t get around to filling you all in on my little girls trip with my lovely mum! Last time we spoke about it I was incredibly anxious about the trip and was almost about to
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It’s funny, I have always been careful about not posting too many sad posts and always having a good mix while sharing lessons, stories and everything in between. But unfortunately, this week was perhaps the hardest week I have ever had to endure. A lot of disabled folk have four-legged helpers. Assistance dogs, guide dogs,
Assistance dogs: When it’s time to say goodbye. Read More »
I have tried to write this piece almost ten times now. I have two versions sitting on my laptop. One is the version no one will perhaps ever see; it bares everything. And then there are another eight that I have started, finished and deleted. Writing is always a fine line. The line teeters between
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G’day friends welcome to another week, another post, and another week closer to Christmas! There are many things that you will be told about when you are first diagnosed with a disability or with Muscular Dystrophy for that matter. In my case, I was told ‘You will end up not being able to walk’, ‘you
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Hello, my beloved readers, and welcome back to another blog and another week! Who here is a people pleaser? It’s perhaps safe to assume that the majority of us are people pleasers, or we worry too much about what other people think of us, and we become someone we aren’t to try and feel ‘accepted’
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