If you have epilepsy, you might see your brain as your enemy. It acts out when you least expect it. It steals your cognitive gifts and harms the body you’ve tried so hard to protect. But if you take a step back from investigating it at the molecular level and really look at the brain one cell at a time, you’ll see that it’s actually quite beautiful.

For about a year now I have been working with a pupil with epilepsy  - and Torie has been great fun to teach! I always look forward to our lessons where I know a laugh or two awaits – as well a good discussion on something pressing on one or both of us that week.

Whilst pregnant with my daughter my life changed drastically in so many ways: during my first trimester, I started having tonic-clonic seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy.

I have always had a not-so-secret love affair with art: it has saved me during the two major health crises’ over the past few years; from losing my sight and becoming legally blind to then being diagnosed with epilepsy.