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  • Illustration of a ladies silhouette with an outline of her brain on show. She is surrounded by clock faces and three lightbulbs to represent thinking.
    September 4, 2023

    THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, THAT I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING IN ADVANCEā€¦

    Since the very beginning of my life, I have always experienced anxiety about unpredictability. These episodes arenā€™t just mere moments of daily stress either. On the contrary, whenever an unexpected change happens my natural reaction is to completely lose control, and have intense meltdowns where Iā€™m uncontrollably yelling as well as thrashing around on the floor. Now I have learned mindfulness exercises (of which Iā€™ll soon discuss) that enable me to gradually pull my mind out of the terror.Ā 
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  • a digital image that looks like a circuit board with a outline of a human head and its cortex
    August 8, 2023

    I'VE HAD AN IDEA FOR QUITE SOME TIME...

    I was given a comforting (as well as exciting) idea. There was a time when I had to travel over to California, to have an MRI done by the lab researching one of the conditions that I have. My mother did of course have to come along with me, and we spent just over a week there. In addition to having my MRI that week, I also got to meet and talk to the famous robot Asimo. Asimo certainly was extremely technologically advanced for his time. He amazed crowds with these qualities; though I discovered that his primary purpose was to assist people with disabilities as well. That is when I received the idea of eventually having a robot of my own to both help me and keep me company.
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  • Image of a person painting a mindfulness picture at table
    July 6, 2023

    DOING ARTWORK IS BRINGING MINDFULNESS TO LIFE

    The first thing that comes to mind when many of us think of mindfulness, is that it solely involves meditation and/or breathing exercises. Yet despite many being available that do involve meditation, there are also other ways ofĀ practising mindfulness. Doing artwork is one example.Ā In truth activities which could be termed as artwork are vast. But the reason why visual art (that of which is intended to be aesthetic to someone by sight or purely and simply seeing) is mentioned in the following paragraph is merely because itā€™s an activity which I myself do.
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  • Blue sky with clouds and planes wing. View from planes window
    June 8, 2023

    DISORDERS, TRAVEL AND PLEASURE

    Recently a documentary film about me and my family (named Because We Have Each Other) has been released to the world, and in April/May of 2023 we travelled to Toronto for our screening at the HotDocs International Film Festival. As we live in Brisbane this was my longest journey since the ā€œpre-pandemic daysā€. In fact the last time I visited a destination that far away was when we travelled to Florida in 2011. Weā€™ve visited California countless times, yet the North American east coast is another six or seven hours of flying from there.
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  • Bicycle barriers SpecialKids.Company
    January 9, 2023

    THERE IS SUCH THING AS CAN'T YET THERE ARE ALWAYS OTHER POSSIBILITIES

    When I was a child in primary school teachers and staff members would say countless times ā€œthereā€™s no such word as canā€™tā€. Itā€™s perfectly true that those words can give a child (or adult) hope that somethingĀ couldĀ indeed be achievable, and that extra motivation can enable us to put in more effort. However, there are also many times when an action or goal purely and simplyĀ isnā€™tĀ achievable.
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  • paint splatter on paper SpecialKids.Company
    December 12, 2022

    I HAVE TO DO MINDFULNESS EXERCISES, CONSTANTLY

    Throughout the past few decades, my challenges with anxiety have been talked over, discovered, misunderstood, pondered over and so forth. Psychology and the understanding of life science, in general,Ā have also come a long way in thirty years. Nowadays many of my current and recent therapists have advised me to do mindfulness exercises.
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