A Day in the Life: Sarah's Journey

Writing helps me to share my views as well as become an outlet for me on an emotional and psychological level. I am a woman with a physical disability and as a person with a disability, it can often be a challenge to have a voice in society. Writing gives me a voice that allows me to share my experiences that will hopefully in turn help others. I found it almost impossible to write for a while, but now realise this is exactly when I should have been writing the most. I am going to try and explain some of the reasons I stopped writing and then discuss why I now realise I should have continued to write all along. October 2015 my life started down a road that there was no stopping and turning around on. I had been unhappy in my marriage for some time, as the years progressed it became evident that we wanted different things. I had always said that I didn't want children, not because of my disability but just because I enjoyed my freedom, wanted to see the world and didn't see a ch...

Over the past year I have learnt much about myself and other people and so I need to take a moment to reflect on my experiences and in essence how lucky I am to have the life that I do. So many people have to deal with so many more injustices than myself, which I can only begin to imagine the effect that this has. I have made the effort to learn about other sick and disabled peoples lives, to allow me to appreciate what others go through on a daily basis. This learning has made me realise that things are not always clean cut as they seem, leading to me having a greater empathy for people in different situations. I have done my learning through talking to people on social networking sites like Twitter, as well as through listening and taking note of the news and the media as a whole. There have been a number of different items in the media about disabled people which I feel is another reason I have learnt to question what I am told and find out the truth, as unfortunately much of w...

I started blog writing just over a year ago, initially I used it to focus my thoughts and it soon led to me writing more structured articles on issues that affect millions of disabled people. I was really pleased with the reaction I got from the previous posts that I wrote and have been meaning to write another one for many months, but as the title shows life sometimes gets in the way of living. Over the past 5 months there have been a number of topics that I could have written about, but I haven't and I am not going to attempt to go back over old ground now. So why haven't I written a blog before now? There aren't any excuses really, apart from the usual 'too busy', but doing what you may ask? so I am not going to make excuses up. I suppose I have just got out of the habit of writing and so just need to get back to writing as I do enjoy the process when I finally do it, including the actual writing and response that I get from the writing that I do. I have been ...