I’m headline speaker!

[Kavib]

I’m excited to be speaking at this amazing festival on the 27th July 4pm. I promise it will leave you with a smile on your face as I talk about ‘Hope & Happiness ‘ , please come along ! There will be other speakers, a lot of yoga and meditation plus you can meet other like minded people. Remember ‘your vibe attracts your tribe’. 😊

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In the book

'Room 23 surviving a Brain hemorrhage', Kavita talks about how an unexpected event turned her whole world upside down. A story about courage and changes that transformed her path to positivity, hope & happiness.

We salute @kavita_basi and are honoured to have her at the festival, bringing her personal story of triumph to inspire us to achieve our own 💕

Get your tickets at bit.ly/holisticmcr

[Froggiefrog]

Seeing this posted nearly made me drop my coffee...it's OK, I didn't! Although I'm still new here, I appear to have inadvertently ruffled feathers by daring to emphasize my positivity and explain why it is important to me, At times, it is almost as if I am 'breaking ranks' by being determined to see things positively, which makes it just as well I'm stubborn by nature and my resolve has not be dampened by being challenged on my view.

I'm 53, so have seen a bit of life. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to medicine, which again has been challenged, but as my mantra has always been believe what you want until you try to convince me I should think like you, I can respect people's right to believe whatever they wish, as long as they offer me the same courtesy and accept my faith in medicine, together with the support of the person closest to me.

Although I may not buy into all, some or even any of the paths you tread helping people to be hopeful and happy and offering the chance to those who might benefit is a special thing.

I'm less than a month out of two brain operations for hydrocephalus shunt issues and feeling fragile emotionally at times. This meant seeing the banner alone on the page meant a great deal to me, as my desire to stay positive is fundamental to my character, central to my recovery and the source of harsh words from those who hold different views that they seem to think are under threat from my trust in medicine.

[Kavib in reply to Froggiefrog]

I hope you’re ok. It took me a while to get to the stage I’m at after 4 Brain operations and surviving a Suburachnoid Brain Hemorrhage. I now feel extremely lucky to be here and want to help others get through their fears. It’s not for everyone but I believe being positive and determined really helped. Please check my YouTube videos here : youtu.be/qM7qgw79k_o(Not working as expected?)

[Froggiefrog in reply to Kavib]

What a beautiful piece that is to watch and so generous to share something so personal to enable others. I find expressing how I feel in the written, or typed, cathartic in a similar way, Kavita.

No prizes for guessing how seeing you surrounded by love made me feel, when I am wrestling with the guilt of how much my shunt replacement, 2nd op and battles with infection etc can make me feel.

The fears I have about the effect my issues have on my wonderful partner are more important to me even that the issues themselves. It put things like dealing with my employers' attitude and lack of awareness into the minor perspective it belongs. however, so I am even going to take something positive from that.!

Turning a negative into a positive is something I feel very strongly about. Unlike many, the condition that has caused me to need my shunt revised is one I have had since birth. In many ways, this does make feeling positive easier, as you don't have the fear of the unknown to tackle, although paradoxically, it also can seem to make others think because you've been through the 'process' of surgery five times you are somehow immune from some of the issues affecting those undergoing 'first time' and traumatic brain injury.

My fears about how my recent surgery affects others is heightened by the fact that I was much younger when I have had intervention before. It's seen as OK to depend on your parents as a child or adolescent, but when you tread the same journey after thirty years of only minor 'hiccups', the person closest to you is there by choice and for me, at least, that is a mountain to climb, although one I am going to tackle with positivity and an on-going reminder of how lucky I am that I found someone prepared to put up with often difficult me.

Thank you for sharing, thank you so much. I appreciate that you will have a hectic and busy I life and that you will undoubtedly have many wanting your input and feedback. I am not someone who wants to 'take' more than I give, but, even in this response, I hope that I have at least 'given' a little, together with repeated thanks for sharing your tremendously powerful video.

Keith