by Emma Gee | Apr 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Setbacks. Obstacles. Roadblocks When you feel like you’ve already faced enough obstacles in your life, suddenly being thrown more is just tough. Personally, after years rebuilding my crushed self-esteem and reinventing myself, suddenly being back in a hospital bed...
by Emma Gee | Apr 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
A year 12 student asked after my presentation, “Was writing your book awful in remembering everything in your journey or helpful?” Here’s my response -” Writing my book was both so grueling but extremely therapeutic. Reflecting on a difficult...
by Emma Gee | Apr 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am very reliant on qualitative feedback from others to motivate me. What’s hard about this later rehab is that my supporters are rightly enthralled in their own lives and this isn’t feasible. When I suddenly am excited that I’ve finally done a task, excitingly...
by Emma Gee | Apr 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
After enduring years of monotonous rehabilitation, then somehow reinventing myself & incorporating my rehab into my everyday regime, I decided that 13 years after my stroke, I needed to challenge myself. Both to break out of my comfort-zone & simultaneously to...
by Emma Gee | Apr 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
We often associate resilience as more of a physical trait, getting up or bouncing back right? But doing that is reliant on us being emotionally resilient. We need to think it to be it! You may be able to get to the gym or do that report or washing but what thoughts...
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