Life in Little Steps

Walking through change with lived experience, quiet reflection, and steady growth where footprints become pathways, and every step matters.

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About Helen

Life of Helen

What I Write About

My blog, Life in Little Steps, is a space where I explore the twists, turns, surprises, and small victories that shape my life. Growing up with a lifelong disability has coloured my experiences, but it doesn’t define the whole story — life is bigger, messier, funnier, and more complicated than that. I write about the ups and downs, the everyday challenges, the unexpected joys, and the tiny steps that carry me forward. It’s a place for honesty, humour, and the real texture of a life lived one moment at a time.

Self Management

Practical self‑management guidance from someone who’s lived it and taught it. These pages offer clear, compassionate insight to help you take steady, manageable steps through everyday challenges.

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Patient Advocacy

With years of experience supporting others, I share practical ways to advocate for yourself in medical settings. If you want steady, trustworthy advice on being heard and understood, you’ll find it here.

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Welcome to the beginning of Life in Little Steps.

Firstly this is a new home for a lot of my content created over many years, if your finding me again welcome back. If this is your first time with me let me say hello.


I’m Helen—a juggler of life in all its messy, glorious forms. I’ve been married, divorced, loved, hated, bullied, bereaved… all while living with a rare form of childhood arthritis, diagnosed when I was just two.

Life in Little Steps is exactly what it sounds like—my life, one step at a time. It’s also the name of the website I’m slowly building: a space for reflection, resilience, and gentle empowerment. I don’t have all the answers, but I hope that in sharing my experiences—my downfalls and my successes—it might spark a lightbulb for someone else.

However you found yourself here, whether by search, stumble, or synchronicity—you’re welcome. So, please make yourself comfortable, grab a cuppa, and say hello.

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  • Sunshine and Showers

    Sunshine and Showers

    Looks like today could be a brighter day! Its a bit overcast at the moment but hoping the sun might creep through later 🙂 Ended up with a headache from hell last night but it seems its just tiredness catching up with me… had a fairly good night although still turning over onto my side….…

  • Busting a Move!

    Busting a Move!

    Today has got a little better…. I’ve taken it easy and as frustrating as it has been , I’ve also relived a magical moment… the moment Diversity won Britain’s Got Talent. I first saw Diversity a couple of years back at a fashion show in Camberley. Their routines then were imaginative and breath taking so…

  • Restless Ranting

    Restless Ranting

    Well I managed to have brekky… honey nut cornflakes & banana, and got myself dressed. Feeling very restless today.. weather doesn’t help as the sun has buggered off, replaced by rain and my joints are having a good old whinge! I’m only 2 weeks post op and have another 4 weeks to go so I…