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.

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.

Hold your focus close; don’t look up too far or you will get overwhelmed.’

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

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You have to concentrate on that very next step only, keep your eyes low, and concentrate on the very next marker. Pull in your focus close so you don’t get overwhelmed.

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

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.

that when people are in crisis, giving them tasks stops their brains going off the deep end; the action of having something to do produces some sort of feeling of control.