Content Warning: body image issues, eating disorders, internalized ableism. I am enough. That’s a sentence I’m trying so hard to embrace and to believe. I’ve felt glimpses of it in the past. I’ve had good weeks and sometimes even months where I could say those words and they felt like truth. But something happened along […] Read more…
The bed in that photo is mine. It’s where I spend most of my time. It’s where I’ve spent most of my time for the last 6 years or so. Well, we’ve gotten a new bed since then, but I just swapped one memory foam surface for another and carried on like before. I lay […] Read more…
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting this month. I’ve been noticing how much calmer my mind is when I just occasionally check social media and feel no obligation to constantly refresh apps like instagram and facebook. Which has got me thinking a lot about the advocacy volunteer work that I do. Being an advocate […] Read more…
Another day, another international awareness campaign. Today we are celebrating International Wheelchair Day. And I can definitely get behind that by revamping an old facebook post I wrote on this topic because my main goal in life is to get people to act less weird about wheelchairs. I don’t love being sick and having my […] Read more…
Hi. I haven’t done this in a very long time. It’s been so long that I’m not even sure where to begin, because so much has happened in that window of time. And I know that can be said for everyone. This year has been a decade long. When I think back on what has […] Read more…
An easy to follow guide for making your social media more accessible, from image descriptions and video captions to accessible hashtags. Read more…
Editor’s Note: Ooh typing out editor’s note makes this seem very fancy. May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month, so I asked my followers what topics they wanted me to discuss about EDS or chronic illness/disability. A bunch of people asked me to write about how to be a good friend to someone who has EDS […] Read more…
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about loss. I have been feeling a loss that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Being chronically ill and becoming disabled has brought about some losses I never expected to feel, or to feel this hard. And there always seems to be another one around the corner. I try to live in the moment, be positive and grateful (all of those characteristics everyone wants to see in a sick person), but some days I’m hit head on with that very real feeling of “what if this never happened to me?” Dreadful, I know. Read more…
You know what? This is all really hard sometimes. I joke around a lot. I look for humour in every situation I find myself in. I smile and laugh and reassure everyone that I’m fine. And in general, I am. I am very proud of how I handle what comes my way. But sometimes I […] Read more…
One of my favourite instragrammers, Julian Van Horne (@thedisabledhippie) recently started a hashtag that I am loving. It’s #DifferentAidsforDifferentDays and it was created to help explain and celebrate the nuance of disability. The point of the hashtag is to normalize the idea that a lot of disabled people use a variety of different mobility aids […] Read more…