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#DisabilityPrideMonth – What, When & Why

Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of experiences, thoughts and ideas about my own disability. I acknowledge these will not all be shared by the community, and expect their rights to have different even conflicting ideas. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on a button…
Reflecting on #RCOT2022 Conference Blog post 3 – PLENARY SESSION: My very own “bear hunt”. A journey back from COVID Michael Rosen, children’s author and poet

Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on…
Reflecting on RCOT Annual Conference 2022 -Blog post 2 – ‘PLENARY SESSION: Levelling the playing field;

Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking on…
Reflecting on Royal College of Occupational Therapists Annual Conference 2022 – Blog 1 The Online Platform.

Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts after attending conference, with an aim of being a critical friend, often just asking questions I have yet to determine the answer, if indeed there is an answer. This website has an accessible feature, that allows different accessible formats by simply clicking…
On International Women’s Day 8th March 2022. A Thank You to the women who shown their support during my two year battle with Covid 19 – #BreakTheBias

In memory of Sue, may you rest in peace. Acknowledgment – Blogging is an occupation I enjoy engaging in, as an effort to appease and make sense of my thoughts. It’s a personal opinion piece based on my own experiences and observations. Any criticism within this blog is not to be taken personally, it is…
How a random survey phone call, helped me un-muddle my thoughts and conclude. – Health and Social Care Services are not patient focused and occupational therapy is compliant with this.

Acknowledgement this blog is a personal opinion piece based on my own experiences of a life living with a Disability, from birth. My personal thoughts about the profession I work in and the almost 2 year journey I have been through in recovering from COVID-19 and the devastating affects it has had on both my…
Accessible Statements Confusion? Are We Still Missing the Point?

Acknowledgment – This blog post is an opinion piece formed from personal experience, and reading on the subject over a number of years. Its aim is to stimulate thought and respectful debate. Throughout this blog I use the term disabled/ disability, by this I mean but not exclusive too – Anyone with lived experiences of…
The Royal College Occupational Therapy (RCOT) – New Brand Reflection – I like it and the Phoenix needed to go.

Acknowledgment – This blog post is a personal opinion piece of initial thoughts of observations of comments on twitter, with only google research done in effort to appease my thoughts from swimming around my head. This communication has been written by a dyslexic person. If you have any trouble with the meaning of any of the sentences or…
Let’s celebrate every women today.

The 8th of March marks international women’s day. A day that’s celebration can be traced back, 1908. A day I have celebrated in some way for many years, often by posting on social media, meeting up with friends, and family and attending events. Last year we spent the day at Beamish with my family, we…
Will we ever get to skip to the end*?

Its Wednesday 10th February 2021, I have just finished my 14 days of isolation due to a false positive Covid swob and subsequently being exposed. It’s not been all that bad, I have done a lot of colouring in, watched all episodes of Hustle and I’m half way though Dexter. So when I get out…