It was a delight and honour to be invited to Park Lane Special School in Trecynon, Aberdare in South Wales, U.K., for their brilliant book launch #ridingthesensorysonicslide. It's a book full of beautiful poems written by student sensory specialists & multi-sensory mixologists. The welcome I received was incredible, and the fact that they were so happy to have me as a disabled author attend melts my heart! The children were amazing, some read their poems on stage, and I heard

Keep reading for two tips on becoming more confident in your disabilities. Living with cerebral palsy has sometimes been challenging. Still, I’ve worked so hard on letting the rigid walls that I have tended to surround myself with fall down from around me (Almost all of them anyway). Accepting yourself as disabled can take time, as I have recently written about in one of my MetroOpinion articles. However and whenever you do come to accept yourself, in my experience, you will

‘Always be true to yourself; you are a writer, so write.’ I saw this as an article header on a website I stumbled across some time ago. When I read this article, it hit home, and I had a moment; everything seemed to become then clear. I had fallen into a trap in the past, a web that can make you unhappy if you let yourself fall in too deep. Accepting my disabilities has taken me a bit of time, and I now realise that I failed to accept who I truly am, someone who has a disabil

March is known as CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS MONTH, so I think now is a perfect time to explain in detail the message around this month, and to also let you all know that I am now at a point in my life where I am so comfortable and happy enough to embrace my disabilities. It is fair to say that I have not always felt this way, over the past few years I have been stupidly worrying too much about what other people think, about the way I walk, and to the point that it was really g