The power of staying positive
At the moment I'm in Bali with my fiancé Amelia.
I was introduced to a ‘healer’ through our local friends, and he did some amazing, tiresome and painful work on me by using techniques he was taught in Brazil.
He is from East Timor, so the language barrier was difficult at the start, and he knew nothing about me or my injury. When he worked on me, he said I had a ‘foreign object’ in my neck - the titanium plate - and picked up a few issues I have without me telling him anything.
Josh Wood: Walking miracle man
After some intense work the pain in my legs, that I have lived with for eleven years, subsided. It’s the first time since my accident that it has happened.
Granted, since my accident, I've hit my fair share of moments.
The only time I wanted to give up was when the first time the doctor told me I'd never walk again. And that it was due to my ‘reckless’ lifestyle of snowboarding and motocross that I'll never get out of bed. But I was quickly motivated out of that headspace from my mum, and since then I've never looked back.
Even now, after eleven years, I'm getting more function and feeling back into my body.
Project Walk in Carlsbad is another new pinnacle in my life which has changed and motivated me a lot – everything from the staff, to the clients, to the centre itself.
I am currently selling my new car so that I can get back to Project Walk for hopefully three to six months.
Another important piece to my puzzle is having positive and supportive people in my life. I have no room for negative people. There's always someone worse off, so there's no point locking yourself in a room and being a victim.
Contact details
Josh Wood - www.joshwood.com.au
