A Way In

For People Living With Disability or Chronic Illness

This route exists separately from the general “exploring my own body” path because some questions land differently when disability or chronic illness isn’t incidental to your life — it’s the actual context everything else sits inside. This is ordered around the specific things that tend to come up most: trust in your own body, medical history, access, dependency, anger, and sexuality.

Body trust

• Who Knows This Body?
• Disability Is Not Armour
• Pain & Psychological Interpretation

Medical history

• Medical Trauma & Body Ownership
• The Therapist’s Body — useful if you’re wondering what a good therapist should and shouldn’t be doing with their own reactions to you.

Fatigue, pacing & access

• Fatigue, Rest & Embodiment
• Assistive Technology as Embodiment
• Online Body Psychotherapy

Dependency

• Dependency & Interdependence
• Can a Body Self-Regulate With Assistance?

Anger

• Care & Forbidden Anger
• Embodied Anger & Protective Force

Sexuality

• Disability, Sexuality & Pleasure
• Sexuality & Biodynamic Theory

Shame, staring, and being watched

• The Body Under Observation
• Ableism in the Body

Other ways in

For People Exploring Their Own Body · For Therapists & Clinicians · Body Psychotherapy