Jan 25, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
The Early Years of Sexuality Up there on the list with chatting about money and politics, sex is such a taboo topic. I grew up in Europe with a very open-minded family and a very open culture with respect to talking about sexuality and running around half naked...
Jan 15, 2024 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
HOW TO START BUILDING A NEW (POSITIVE) HABIT Your life today is essentially the some of your habits. How happy or unhappy are you? – a result of your habits. In psychology, the process of building a habit can be divided into four simple steps: cue, craving,...
Dec 13, 2023 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional
WHAT’S WORSE THAN BEING PARALYZED? Sleep Deprivation – Millions Sharing a collective pain together I’ve commented before that paralysis itself is not innately the biggest challenge with living a life in a wheelchair. It’s the secondary...
Nov 29, 2023 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Things have been challenging in my care life at the moment. I am going to leave it at that and just say that everyone is doing the best they can despite unforeseen circumstances. With that said, I have some of my beautiful caregivers coming in the morning to help....
Nov 21, 2023 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Yesterday I had an hour to kill and I decided to do a fun filled beauty Photo-shoot for myself. I think my mother was an excellent photographer. The behind the scenes of setting my body up, well that was rather comical and gave me a great giggle for the day, but it...
Nov 13, 2023 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Despite my quirky exterior and rosy attitude as many seem to comment on, I, too, really struggle at times. Honestly, who doesn’t? It’s human nature.Many of you know my life’s purpose and mission is to help other humans in a range of different capacities, but...
