What happens when you walk or wheel into the room? Chances are many, if not most, of the eyes in the room turn to you. How do you feel about this? Embarrassed? Angry? Frustrated? Perhaps you feel a white hot flash of shame? Or maybe it happens so frequent... Read more
In a lifetime of people, especially children, staring at me, I had a first the other day. For the first time, I was the parent of a child staring at someone else with a disability. For the record, my son at age five, still hasn’t figured out that I ... Read more
Have you had those moments in your life in which EVERYTHING CHANGES and more importantly, YOU CHANGE? They’re often referred to as DEFINING MOMENTS. They can be the SCARIEST moments we ever experience and afterwards – and probably for the res... Read more
There will be a Facebook Live Video on this Wednesday, April 26, 11am (ET). I’m sure this is a pretty universal experience when living with a disability. You enter a room and most of the eyes in the room focus on you. Maybe it’s just a glance... Read more
“I don’t feel attractive.” As I said in my last post, this is a nearly universal response from people report as a concern/fear in the dating with disabilities survey. I grew up with that concern and didn’t shed it until I was well ... Read more
I believe that my disability makes me unattractive. I receive comments like this pretty consistently on the Dating for People with Disabilities survey that I always have available for people to take. The words continue to hurt with every response I read... Read more
I’ll be doing a Facebook Live Video on this TODAY at 10:30am (ET). Haven’t read the last couple of posts or are a new subscriber? Today is the final post in a mini-series about people with disabilities truly empowering one another. So you may... Read more
Dear Kathy, I have [two college degrees]. I am a nationally published writer and I am in recovery from PTSD. I do not think it is ethical that you are profiting from people who can barely live off of disability income. No dating is not easy, but you figur... Read more
As I transition Radiant Abilities from a private counseling practice to an online information and training business, I often feel like running this new business is even more reflective and demands more mental bandwidth than being a therapist and seeing ei... Read more
I could care less about making gingerbread men! Spoken to me by an exasperated man who before he acquired a disability, would not had ever given a thought to gingerbread men, let alone want to make them. However, being now in a day program, his staff deci... Read more
