Move Forward
It’s 2012. Feeling paralyzed and stuck already? You can only achieve success if you are moving forward. You and I are in Los Angeles. We decide to go to New York. I decide to take a plane you start...
View ArticleInterview with Maarten Buow of Straight 2 DVD
This interview is reprinted from the Straight 2 DVD blog. View the original post here. What I love about this site is that it gives me the ability to communicate with a whole range of people. Firstly I...
View ArticleFocus on what you CAN do
If there was ever a time that a message on dealing with paralysis is needed… it is today. I feel blessed being able to make a small difference by sharing my story with audiences across the country....
View ArticleNational Rehabilitation Awareness
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week is September 16-22nd, it’s a week I hold near and dear to my heart. It celebrates the role rehabilitation plays in helping people with disabilities return to...
View ArticleThe impact our words can have
More often than not, my engagements have me speaking to large audiences. Recently, I was speaking to Emerald Health celebrating their 10 year anniversary and addressing a small crowd. I love small...
View ArticleThe Biology of Support
Feeling stuck and paralyzed? You are not alone. I’ve you’ve read my story, you’ll recall I was unable to do anything but blink after a massive brain stem stroke left me paralyzed. With the help of a...
View ArticleChristmas
Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.” ~ Charlotte Carpenter.
View ArticleStroke Recovery
I recently received a guest blog form Drugwatch.com. They are new to me, but I feel information is always important so I decided to post this blog and let you decide. Medication decisions should be...
View ArticleAre you a hero?
You are probably like me, a parent doing the best you can. You might not see yourself as a hero – do you? I remember when my daughter, Stephanie was in 6th grade and had an assignment to talk about...
View Article2013 Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference
I just returned from speaking at the Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference. What a great opportunity to present to a variety of people from stroke and accident survivors to medical professionals...
View ArticleBook clubs
Invite Kate to be a part of your book club! Recently, I attended a book club who were reading Paralyzed but not Powerless. It is wonderful connecting with my readers on an intimate level. I literally...
View ArticleGoodbye Dumpster Doggie
Helping each other can be healing on both sides. Sometimes those of us who deal with disabilities are best qualified to help others deal with the same. Sometimes those who help people the most – aren’t...
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Nineteen years ago….Paralyzed but not Powerless
Paralyzed from brainstem stroke, isolated in locked-in syndrome – life is over. Or is it? On June 28th 1995, I was fine, fit and healthy. I was focused on myself, my family, my business, my success....
View Article“Locked-in”– the frustrations, fears and recovery….
Steven Spierer with Talk Radio One interviews Kate Adamson, author of Paralyzed but not Powerless, about her excruciatingly slow and courageous journey from despair to hope, then to recovery and...
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The Journey Continues
This month, my journey continues with a new chapter. I am entering into a two-year program to earn a Master’s degree in Social Work at California State University of Long Beach. What attracted me to...
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My stroke just came of age – the legal age to drink!
Yep! Twenty-one years ago, life as I knew it, changed in the blink of an eye. My dreams became suddenly irrelevant as the possibility of taking my next breath became my primary focus. I suffered a...
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Paralyzing Fear
Do you know why lions roar? It is to paralyze their prey so the prey can’t run away. Whenever I was afraid of something, some difficulty, relationship, anything – I’d run. Then, when I suffered a...
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Sister Delores – a healing angel
As I look back on my recovery, and remember those who were influential in my recovery, especially during those critical, uncertain early days when few had faith in me or my chances of survival. Sister...
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