Relentless: How a mother and daughter defied the odds

Playlist Link: Here’s all of us proudly watching as Mum takes her first few steps unaided. See lisatamati.com/playlist: Mum standing first time.

Dictionary definition for proprioception: noun the perception of where one’s body is and what it is doing, allowing one to perform a function without looking at what one is doing.

Playlist Link: See the video on the lisatamati.com/Playlist: Isobel’s first steps on the parallel bars at the hospital

As human beings we don’t need to be comfortable, we need to be challenged.

No matter how bleak things look, you find that little voice inside you that says, You can. You have to ignore everything else and only listen to that: ignore all the odds, ignore the naysayers, ignore even the lack of progress, and just keep being relentless and persistent and consistent, without thinking too much.

See video entitled Curt Allen Jr.-Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=erXi23AC3k8&t=141s 2 Harch MD, Paul. (2010). The Oxygen Revolution: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. New York: Hatherleigh Press.

They had meetings to discuss cases, but I felt a holistic disconnect.

Download this free ebook on Goal Setting by Lisa Tamati: https://bit.ly/2xvKD9L 2 See Tamati, Lisa. “Visualisation Techniques: The Power of Imagination.” https://www.lisatamati.com/blog/post/38485/VISUALISATION-TECHNIQUES-THE-POWER-OF-IMAGINATION/

In times of high pressure, you need to look after yourself. You need to take a break, or a nap, or go for a walk in the park, or go to the gym and let off some steam. Keep yourself watered and fed. Do what you can to keep yourself as mentally balanced as possible.