Jeremiah 29:…
Tag: Special needs
Asset-based perspective changes status quo
I just had a conversation with yet another person who is feeling sick about the lack of funding for their adult person who lives with multiple challenges. Their cry, “What are we going to do!!?” makes me heart-sick! And prompted a wee rant, I’m afraid. 🙄 I belong to various disability-related Facebook groups, as…
Some “foods” trigger “behaviour” issues
I have some pretty interesting memories from years ago, B.C. (Before Change), when I could rarely say that life was joy-filled. I remember the naturopath saying, “Linda, if you want to see dramatic change in your life, you will have to cut certain things out of your diet, and out of the diet of your…
Moving on … again! – Reprised (1994)
I wrote the following Introspective for the P.R.O.S.P.E.C.T.S. newsletter in the spring of 1994. Little did I know when I wrote this how my life would later be affected by the most intimate of “movings on” of all … the passing of my mother, December 25, 1994. And then, in 2009, to again move on,…
Bathe in the happiness of today – Reprised (1993)
I wrote the following Introspective for the P.R.O.S.P.E.C.T.S. newsletter in the autumn of 1993. Things have changed considerably since those days! I now enjoy every single moment of summer … proof that things do indeed get better with time. Please enjoy, “Bathe in the happiness of today” – Reprised. Each winter, I can’t wait for…
I practice gratitude – Reprised (1993)
I wrote the following Introspective for the P.R.O.S.P.E.C.T.S. newsletter in the summer of 1993. It is remarkable to me how so much of who I am today was ingrained in me during the early years of our daughter’s life. Now, Laura, who was just turning nine at the time of writing this, is 28 years…
Parents Shift Focus from Disability to Possibility
Be sure to read the article written by Ann Douglas, Parents Shift Focus from Disability to Possibility, published in the Toronto Star August 3, 2011.
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