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Hindsight and Healing

Getting help to set off in the kayak

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Marjorie Turner Hollman supports nonfiction authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Let’s get in touch.

She approached me with what looked like a midget light saber. But then she flipped the switch and it started vibrating.

I was sitting in a hospital room, about to be discharged to go home and figure out the rest of my life. Alive after brain surgery, my right side had become totally paralyzed during my time under the knife. During a month of rehab I had regained some function, and could feel sensations, I just could not control much of my arm or leg. This was not good.

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Finding my balance

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Blueberries and homemade granola

Marjorie Turner Hollman supports nonfiction authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Let’s get in touch.

The past thirty or so years have offered me challenges I never dreamed of. I no longer take for granted the ability to walk. “You never know what you’ve lost till it’s gone,” became my reality at age thirty-seven.

The years since then have taken me on a healing journey that has restored substantial movement to my right arm and let, and has profoundly changed who I am. Healing has come, slower than I hoped for, but it has come on many levels.

As I approach old age (reaching 70 hit hard!) I grew increasingly concerned that any more healing was past, and that the possibility of future increase in function was gone . . . .

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Learning to ask for help

Kayaking can be magical. Some of us need support. Volunteers with the Blackstone Heritage Corridor helped me in and back out of the boat. The paddling? That was up to me.

Marjorie Turner Hollman helps authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Click to learn more.

Here are some lessons I’ve learned about asking for help/support, from years of practice. The recording I made here was first shared through Michael Whitehouse’s Grateful Growth Summit. Many thanks to Michael for spurring me to meet his challenge of creating a fifteen minute talk for this event. The recording has more “what to do” suggestions than are listed here.

“Why Learning to ask for help is a good thing…for your business”:

I’ve started writing a book on why learning to ask for help is a good thing… for your business, for your personal life, and for those you enlist to help. This post is not comprehensive. Below are a few tips that I will expand on as the manuscript is developed. Let me know if you have questions or comments, please!

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How to Write a Blog

We called this boat henge, along the Missouri River–made me smile

Marjorie Turner Hollman helps nonfiction authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Let’s get in touch.

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So, how do you start? Write something. Toss in some photos. Dip your toes into the blogging world. Find a place to put your writing up on the internet. Tell your friends. Blogs are meant to be shared, not kept secret.

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Common Sense

Dad helping my brother launch a water-filled rocket

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My dad could do anything. Really. Whenever my siblings or I got stuck trying to complete any practical task, we turned to him, and predictably, he was able to fix, open, close, or repair it. Every single time.

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Hints of rutabaga

Dad and Mom on left, grands in pool, Ted and Betty, Grannie on the far right

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The unfamiliar scent was overwhelming. I was suddenly a very young girl again and the wooden floor of my friends’ country kitchen had been transformed into polished terrazzo.

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