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#260 Weekend away without a wheelchair!

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 28/05/2023
  • amputation

This is the first time I have ventured out of town on a plane without a wheelchair. Here’s how it went.

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The whispers from within

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 26/05/202326/05/2023
  • amputation

It won’t leave me.. That yearning, for sport.. for challenge, for a purpose, for a goal. I have been searching for two and a half years. I have read books, absorbed online videos and articles […]

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Is there a ‘correct kind of hurt’?

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 25/05/202325/05/2023
  • amputation

Last weekend I walked Parkrun for only the third time ever (on two feet). The first time took me 1 hour 19, the second took me 1 hour 9, last weekend took me 58 mins. […]

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#259 The complex truth about living with PTSD

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 22/05/2023
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📹 Although our awareness of ptsd and what it means is improving, I don’t think many people know the full truth of what it’s like living with complex PTSD: trauma that is not just related […]

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Autism, anxiety and dealing with anger.

  • by Melanie Magowan
  • Posted on 12/05/202312/05/2023
  • Life with Autism

This is one of the trickiest emotions for people with ASD to deal with. We are, as you probably know, very black and white in our view of the world. This applies to emotions too.

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