Blog & reflections.
Personal essays, poems, lived experience, and reflections on disability and psychotherapy, written as this project has grown. Newest first.
Good places to start
- Living In A World Created By Others: what the social model of disability changes
- What happens when therapy overlooks the body you live in?
- Navigating Life: Trauma, PTSD, and Medical PTSD
What happens when therapy overlooks the body you live in?
For too many people, the space meant for healing can quietly become another space of exclusion — a ramp that’s too steep, a chair that’s too high, a therapist who assumes eye contact means connection.
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Beyond Ramps: The Hidden Obstacles in Mental Health Care for the Physically Disabled
Living with a physical disability adds extra challenges to nearly every part of life — access to mental health care is no exception. This is the story of one search for a therapist’s office that was actually possible to get into.
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Living In A World Created By Others
I know first-hand how difficult it can be to live with a disability in a world mostly created by and for people with able bodies. Here’s what the social model of disability taught me.
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Disability
A wonderful poem by Mary Casserly, on seeing the person and not the disability.
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“I Suppose Some Days You Forget That You Have Parkinson’s?”
A friend once said that to me. Unfortunately, there is rarely an hour that goes by that I’m not reminded.
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Navigating Life: Trauma, PTSD, and Medical PTSD
Medical PTSD can be a huge part of the therapeutic healing of someone with a disability — often overshadowed by more widely known forms of PTSD.
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The Battle Between Normalisation and Ignorance in the World of Disabilities
Normalisation strives for inclusivity — but from the inside, it can sometimes mean minimising real difference. On stigma, and Maya, whose wheelchair is an extension of her spirit.
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Being Marginalised Further By Projection
When we interact as people, it’s near impossible to plan exactly what we’ll say. Too often, something called ‘projection’ enters the conversation without anyone noticing.
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Being a Superhuman
A lot of people living with long-term disabilities already possess a superpower — super-adaptability. On navigating a world built for able bodies, every single day.
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What Is Diversity Though?
In a world that thrives on definitions, the fluidity of disability intrigues us all. On neurodiversity, ever-changing capability, and what diversity really means.
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