Year: 2024
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Meal Prep is Hard, Too Hard for Me To Do
Meal prep is a term coined by many in the fitness industry as to prepare your meals in advance. So let’s say you eat 3x a day, and you eat relatively the same foods all the time. Meal prep is making those meals in advance for the next 2-3 weeks. You know those ‘social media…
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I Love My Healthcare Job
I’ve been working in a hospital for about 1.5 years, and I love it. Why do I love it? I love the feeling of making somebodies life easier because they have a stoma bag, yet they have rheumatoid arthritis and can’t change it themselves. I love the feeling when I get a thumbs up from…
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The Non-Verbal Life
A long time ago (although not that long, maybe a year or so), our son was described as non-verbal by his SEN teacher and I immediately had to take a step back because I didn’t know what it meant. It turns out, or at least my understanding of it, is when they aren’t speaking yet…
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My Son’s ASD Diagnosis
The last 3 years has been an incredibly stressful process for me, and I haven’t really realised it until a week or so ago when my wife and I took our son to see the paediatrician and SALT (Speech and Language Therapist) lady to have our son assessed. I was very excited for the appointment…
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Just Because You Have Dyspraxia
I get it, I really do, you have Dyspraxia and it causes you all sorts of problems. Perhaps your Dyspraxia means you can’t drive very well, or drive at all. Perhaps you Dyspraxia makes you clumsy and bump into objects. Maybe your Dyspraxia makes you forget people’s names at work or out in public. Maybe…
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Breathing Correctly to Reduce Anxiety
Everybody gets anxious at certain points in their life and during the day. Anxiety can be brought on by many things so it’s natural to feel a little nervous at times and you might even find consistency in things that give you anxiety. I get anxiety from potential trouble with authority, or if I’m having…
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Deep Dive Into Consistency
Why is consistency so important? It’s important because to achieve anything takes time. You can’t go into something and be great at it straight away, you have to practise everyday to get better. Don’t let social media fool you either, people aren’t as good behind the scenes as they appear on social media. Things take…
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Don’t Count Yourself Out
I get it, a part of you is always unsure or you are holding yourself back because you think you aren’t good enough, or you see someone else doing something and achieving more success than you and maybe you think ‘what’s the point?’, ‘I don’t have what they have’. There is always the battle going…
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It’s OK to Cry
It’s important to remember that crying is a normal human emotion. Much like laughing, or being angry, crying is a release of anger and feelings. A lot of us feel a sense of shame when crying, especially in front of others or in general public because we don’t want the attention or we feel embarrassed,…
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Looking at Ableism from Both Perspectives
Up until recently I didn’t really know what Ableism actually was, or is, and, in the last few years, I have noticed an influx of other Idioms which have a deeper meaning behind them (if I am incorrect about idioms, I’m happy for you to let me know) so I thought that Ableism was a…