by admin | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Professional athletes train, and train hard. That training leads to some incredible achievements and rewards – an Olympic Medal, a trophy or a Personal Best. Sounds silly, but in order to adequately manage my stroke recovery, I feel like I seem to train just as...
by admin | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s National Stroke Week (8-14 August 2022) – a week I never fathomed I’d ever have to personally celebrate! But 17 years as a stroke survivor, I see it as a great opportunity to raise stroke awareness, educate everyone and hopefully prevent the...
by admin | Jul 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
A recent situation and article I read made me really contemplate how much our language can really disempower and limit people with disabilities. I guess “Ableism” is the best term to encapsulate this! I often walk my two cavoodles to my local cafe and get my caffeine...
by admin | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Managing my fatigue is something that I’ve been trying to grapple with since acquiring my stroke 16 years ago. Initially in rehabilitation, the fatigue fog engulfed me from the beginning of the day. I write in my book reinventing emma – “…I...
by admin | May 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Empathy fuels CONNECTION…Sympathy drives DISCONNECTION” In this short clip, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really put ourselves in another’s shoes. Watch it...
