I have come to the realization that “thank you” are the two most powerful and useful words we have at our disposal besides I love you. The minute I started saying thank you to God/Jesus/ everybody who l love/matters to me when they needed to hear it: crazy/beautiful pieces started to fall in place; dots
Tag: Faith
I have done some research to hopefully understand my condition a bit better. There are no CP specialists, so when I want to understand something about my condition research is my first thought due to my academic training. What I found out is fascinating, at least to me, so I thought I would share what
This post is for everybody who feels as if they are on the margins in society. I understand. As an only child by birth, the youngest in my blood extended family by a lot, and some who was born with CP: I get it. I get all of the feelings of being different, wrong, misunderstood,
This is a very special blog post. I hope you all will indulge me. Yesterday, this blog’s social media accounts combined hit a big milestone. Over 4,000 people follow this blog through various social media accounts. I honestly feel like crying happy tears. it is the kind of milestone I could only dream about when
In late 2016, I felt restless. My internal tension was almost paralyzing. Not in the physical sense but mentally and emotionally. My internal tension is God’s way of getting my attention. Picking up my phone: I sent a few texts to a couple of my chosen brothers. They asked what I knew. My temper flared.
Cannot or can. It is a recurring question, for me, because of my condition. The question keeps coming back over and over. It is not an accident, but part of the crazy/beautiful journey. I have a massive cannot wall in my head. I did not think it was still there. I thought I busted through
Yesterday was one of the toughest days I have had in a while. That is saying something. Everything, seemingly, that could go wrong went wrong. Yesterday had every single, typical, response from me: frustration, tears, feeling like I was not enough/doing enough, angry at myself for feeling like any of what happened yesterday was my
CP has been a conscious part of my everyday life since age 4. For a long time I just shoved down talking about it; my daily life is pretty typical. I don’t want it to slow me down. Sometimes, the reality is that it does. When it does: I get angry. Then, usually, I get
Today was difficult. There is a misconception that because my content is positive in nature, I never have difficult days. The truth is I have difficult days like everybody else. Why today was difficult is not important. What is Important you ask? Detailing how I got through it well. I cry easily, but I had
2022 taught me so many lessons and made me grow in immeasurable ways. It was the hardest year of my life personally and the best professionally. People on social media started talking about their word for 2023 two weeks ago. A word that was going to define the new year for them. I have never