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Bad Day and Work Mounting? There’s Another Option.
Photo Credit: Esme Wang “The options when one is unwell and it seems like all of the options have dried up.” – Esmé Wang You know those days when you just feel awful? Maybe you are in a pain flare, perhaps your joints are swollen and painful because of the rain (me, today), or you have a migraine or anxiety is tearing you up right now. Bad day – it hurts. I believe in our power to affect change by our actions. But some days you just aren’t feeling good. The type of not-good that rest/yoga/meditation/medication/your healing modality of choice isn’t making any better. You work really hard on your…
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How to Make a Hospital Stay Easier
Whether we are visiting hospital for a day appointment, as an in-patient or a visitor it can be a challenging place. [Tweet “Hospitals are wonderful spaces of healing but also where the most intense things in life happen. http://bit.ly/1fG7tAG @Grace_Quantock”] This alone can make them very charged and very challenging. But there’s lots we can do to make a hospital stay easier, for ourselves or for a friend, colleague or family member. Bring a Bag If you’ve had to get to hospital quickly you may not have brought anything with you and even if you have had time to pack and prep you’ve probably forgotten something! Useful often forgotten items…
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~ Behind the Scenes ~ My TEDx Talk: Dreaming BIG…and Being Invited
You read that headline right, friend. I am on my way to becoming a TEDx speaker. (Click to Tweet!) Like, officially. (Yeahhhhhh!!!) Come May 9th of this year, yours truly will take the stage at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury to give a Ted talk, on a theme near and dear to me: Misfits and Pioneers. To say I am thrilled to pieces would be a huge understatement. Pause. Rewind to 2013. I sat my writer-speaker self down and wrote three lofty goals: To be featured on the Huffington Post To speak at TEDx, and To sell my Healing Boxes in hospitals. These goals seemed next to impossible. Unachievable. Especially, the…
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Guide to Painful Periods: Claiming The Power In Your Reproductive Healing
Listen to your womb, cervix, uterus, ovaries, belly. Do you hear them? They are places of deep power, often neglected, but with such profound lessons to teach. To contribute to your wholeness. To help you heal. So long as you are willing to connect to the parts of yourself that are hurting and listen to what they have to say. Some raw food literature suggests menstruation is the body’s way of detoxing, that if detoxed enough, menstruation will naturally cease. That amenorrhoea due to low weight is actually a sign of raw food and detox success. Our reproductive organs are powerful, dark, creative spaces. So often they are viewed negatively;…
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Disability Creativity: Co-opting Clothing for Accessibility Part 2
Living with disability can ignite creativity – at least it has for me in terms of my wardrobe. Check out Disability Creativity: Co-opting Clothing for Accessibility Part 1 – Outerwear here. Companies design clothes for people with disabilities, however, most of those clothes are what I imagine the companies think ‘elderly’ people will wear. But I’m sure most of us will value style and self expression, as well as comfort, at every age. (Click to Tweet!) Clothes that work for your body and life can be challenging to find. Maybe you need Velcro, not buttons, or perhaps things that are easy to pull on and off, or don’t get caught…
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