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Get Your Emotions In Check  – Coping with Visual Impairment

Get Your Emotions In Check – Coping with Visual Impairment

How we deal with, manage and react to what happens in our life will very much determine our progress and development. In extreme cases a momentary reaction can influence, if not shape, the next ten (twenty, fifty) years of our life. For good or bad. Yet many of our reactions will ...
Change Your Outlook or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Change Your Outlook or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Life is too precious to waste feeling sorry for yourself or fearing what nightmares may be waiting ahead of you on life’s journey so you have to change your outlook. You wake up on a Monday morning. What is the first thought that comes to your mind? When first diagnosed with visual impairment it is ...
Visual Impairment – Loneliness and Social Isolation

Visual Impairment – Loneliness and Social Isolation

Visual impairment will initially have an incredibly negative impact on both your mental health and quality of life. The effects range from practical issues regarding daily activities to a decline in psychological wellbeing, and one of the most difficult things to deal with is the feeling of loneliness and social isolation.. Many ...
Visual Impairment – How to Avoid Emotional Meltdown

Visual Impairment – How to Avoid Emotional Meltdown

One of the toughest things to cope with when trying to deal with visual impairment or recovery from any other illness is dealing with the emotional issues. If you don’t, then potentially you risk facing emotional meltdown which is a rapid or disastrous decline or collapse of your emotions which could ...
The Path to Empowerment – Visualisation

The Path to Empowerment – Visualisation

I am now empowered to provide support and training to help adults get beyond vision loss and live life on their own terms. What are you empowered to do? Alternatively are you someone that feels absolutely powerless to shape your life? This article is written for those who have experienced major ...
Change Your Personal Outlook on Life or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Change Your Personal Outlook on Life or Let Visual Impairment Destroy You

Life is too precious to waste feeling sorry for ourselves or fearing what nightmares may be waiting ahead of us on life’s journey. Your outlook will determine whether you handle your challenges successfully or you crumble because of them. Let me share with you a story: Two seriously ill men were roomed together ...
The Day Half The World Vanished

The Day Half The World Vanished

I had become one of the vision-impaired, and I was off on a trip I had never in my life expected to take. I learnt to live successfully with sight loss. My hope is that, I can help others deal with the emotional distress and sense of helplessness that I did ...
Transforming The Victim Mentality

Transforming The Victim Mentality

A victim mentality is a big limitation to people trying to get up and move on after personal crisis. The most destructive words they constantly say within their minds is “Why me?” A victim is someone who feels powerless, and is therefore unable to take appropriate action to resolve situations adversely ...
Vision Loss and the Grieving Process

Vision Loss and the Grieving Process

This is not a short article but the information in vision loss and the grieving process is incredibly important for you to read if you are suffering from vision loss or any major loss. Are you feeling frightened or overwhelmed by a recent diagnosis of vision loss? Finding it all too much ...
8 Steps To Recovery From Ill Health

8 Steps To Recovery From Ill Health

When we suffer from illness our world can seem to standstill, we struggle both physically and emotionally, and it is essential to find the steps to recovery from ill health as soon as possible. There is a high price to pay when illness strikes. The economic burden of ill health in the ...