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Look For The Positive In Life

Look For The Positive In Life

Being diagnosed with a visual impairment is bad enough, but then discovering all those things which once you took for granted now being too difficult for you to do can push you over the edge. Losing much of your sight gives you every reason to be negative. Your world has been ...
You Have Good Days And You Have Bad Days

You Have Good Days And You Have Bad Days

What’s it like to be visually impaired? I‘m sure it’s the same for anyone dealing with illness or disability. You have good days and you have bad days. There are those days you wake up greeted by feeling the beautiful sun shining through your window, the sound of birds happily singing, when ...
How to Get Through Tough Times

How to Get Through Tough Times

One of my greatest qualities as a life coach was having endured my own series of personal crises. For those who don't know part of my story I lived a great lifestyle, enjoying all the trappings of success when I was rudely awakened, literally, losing my glorious home, going through financial ...
One eyed blogger

One eyed blogger

I find that I refer to myself as the ‘one eyed blogger’ frequently in conversation nowadays. I don’t do this for sympathy, but simply because it’s a pretty accurate description of who I am. I am a blogger and have been so for almost five years, and I have no sight ...
I’m Not Dead Yet

I’m Not Dead Yet

There was a TV movie by the name I'm Not Dead Yet which was about a guy who finds out he has a rare heart condition that could cause him to die at any moment and he decides to start speaking his mind and live life to the fullest. No matter how ...
Back to the Future – Always Looking Up

Back to the Future – Always Looking Up

A few days ago many of our memories returned to the Back to the Future movie. If you’re a Back To The Future fan, then the date 21 October 2015 is already transfixed into your head. Why? It’s the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future in order ...
The Challenges of Invisible Disability

The Challenges of Invisible Disability

There are many types of disabilities that affect a person’s life as a consequence of an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be clear to see by everyone or impossible to tell. Today I want to draw to your attention ...
See The Need

See The Need

Two thirds of people diagnosed with visual impairment said they had never received emotional nor psychological support. I think this is appalling considering how badly we are affected emotionally by losing a significant amount of our sight. No-one should feel like they are on their own dealing with this, and more ...
The Emotional Impact Of Vision Loss

The Emotional Impact Of Vision Loss

We take our sight for granted. We expect every day when we wake up to see things through our two eyes. Alas there is no guarantee that things will be like this forever. If it doesn't we best be prepared for the emotional impact of vision loss. The moment your doctor tells ...
Emergency,  Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, Eye Vision Is Impaired, Exterminate, Exterminate!

Emergency, emergency, eye vision is impaired, exterminate, exterminate! Straight away you’re learning something new about me, I’m a Doctor Who Fan. Part of the title may have given that away. In a recent Doctor Who episode (Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2: The Witch's Familiar) we saw Missy and Clara walking through ...