Occupational Therapist, Disabled Activist, Author, PhD Candidate
Check out the challenges I set myself. Some challenges may be just for fun whereas others will be specific activities of daily living that I adapt to gain more independence.
Hello and Happy World CP Day 2025! This year marks probably my momentous World CP Day as I start my PhD in a few days. What, I know, didnโt see that one coming? Me neither! Letโs walk through the past year almost shall weโฆ As you know just over a year ago I finished theโฆ Continue reading Embarking on My Biggest Challenge Yet
Being a disabled child is very hard, the world of disability doesnโt come with any instructions it's just left for you and your family to navigate its ableist structures. I know this was hard for my parents at the beginning, their world had turned upside down when I got my diagnosis of cerebral palsy withoutโฆ Continue reading If Only I Knew What I Know Now
Thatโs right you read the title right, I finally caught the train on my own!! Catching the train independently is something that Iโve been working towards for a while, as Iโm not the most confident of drivers so it was something that I knew I needed to do to visit friends who live in differentโฆ Continue reading My Experience of Catching the Train Independentlyย
Going up to full-time work with chronic fatigue, I know my long term readers are thinkingโฆGeorgia we read your struggles on your last full-time placement, what are you thinking?ย I know, I know and 6-months ago when I started having the conversations of increasing my hours to working full-time it was scary and truth beโฆ Continue reading My Reasons for Going up to Full Time Work With Chronic Fatigue
Hello and happy Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month 2023! I canโt believe it 2 months since Iโve posted a blog!ย Recently, life has got pretty hectic therefore, I have a lot of goals I need to set. Goal setting works for me. Yet, I realised most of my goals were about work which are needed and willโฆ Continue reading Managing My A-Z Occupations With Cerebral Palsy!
Is it time to take on new challenges? This is the question Iโm facing at the moment and Iโm not talking about career challenges, as I have quite the number of career-based adventure plates spinning at the moment, Iโm talking about life-based challenges. At the beginning of the year, I started not only my firstโฆ Continue reading Is It Time to Take on New Challenges?
As promised I am writing about my confidence in asking for help that I unpicked in my last blog. Itโs a bit of a โtypicalโ blog I know, I know. But it is Disability Pride Month after all so if itโs got to be done, what better month to do it in? I always sayโฆ Continue reading Am I as Disability Confident as I Think I Am?
Itโs been a while, at one point I was debating if theyโd be a blog at all this month! The thought of not posting a blog for more than a month does not sit well with me. Therefore I thought why do not a general life update seen as itโs a year since I finishedโฆ Continue reading A Year Into Being an OT With CP
Iโve discussed my relationship with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in various posts over the years but as it is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, I thought why not give you an update. As yet again my relationship with AAC has changed since I entered the working world! Iโve gone on about my relationship with AACโฆ Continue reading My Post-Graduation Communication Challenges
The fear and anxiety of advocating for my reasonable adjustments is a blog that Iโve been wanting to write for quite some time and is linked to my OTalk on disclosure back in 2020.ย Letโs take you back to my placement in December 2019, when the anxiety of being a disabled student on placement kickedโฆ Continue reading The Anxiety of Advocating for the Reasonable Adjustments I Am Entitled To!
