My physiotherapist—a lovely guy who’s known me since I was three—has always been a bit of a posture wizard. His exercises worked wonders on my walking, and for a while, I thought I was all sorted.

But then, years later, my parents hit me with the classic “Why are your knees trying to kiss each other?” intervention. So, back I went to my trusty physio.

We had a long chat (he always talks like he’s got a TED Talk coming up), and he gave me some updated exercises. Then, in his infinite barefoot wisdom, he said, “Walking on the beach can help a lot.” And I thought, great excuse for a holiday.

But then he got serious and dropped the real gem:
“The most important thing is that you understand how your body works. Because at the end of the day… ONLY YOU CAN DO IT!”

Honestly, I half expected dramatic music to play. Still, he’s right. It’s my body, my knees, and yep—my job to keep them from making out.

In my case, PC affected my fine motor function,, I need to pay special attention to the way I move and walk, my family and close friends know when I’m tired and not concentrating, not doing my best, I know myself, I know when I could do better and be the better me. When I’m tired I find myself not doing certain tasks as perfectly as I should because I know that I can do better. I think everybody wants to be the better version of themselves. A lot of the time people have dreams or aims that only they can fight for and make happen.

It was my physiotherapist, a lovely man who has known me since I was just 3 years old, he would give excises which helped my posture and walking improve. Years later I was called out by my parents about my knees toward each other and so I went back to see my physiotherapist. After a long conversation in which he gave me some excises that could help me, he said that walking barefoot on the beach would always help, but he told me that the most important that I understood how my body works. He said I was the only one who could change that, so once more I was told “ONLY YOU DO IT!!!