Being Body-Kind – 11 Things To Ponder…

It’s about feeling comfortable in your own skin, not others feeling comfortable looking at your skin...

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A Letter To My Single Self

Time flies, and sometimes the universe just throws up the most uncanny coincidences.  I'm almost a year into my first romantic relationship - the most unexpectedly wonderful and mindboggling thing - and then a friend messaged me this weekend, in a startlingly similar position to the one I found myself in a year ago...bafflement that …

Oversharing Is Not A Thing

Oversharing is a word used to silence...

Depression, Anniversaries and Keeping Score

As Bessel van der Kolk has put it, the body keeps the score.  What with my Cerebral Palsy I perhaps am more open to a literal interpretation of this phrase than many, but this was said in terms of trauma and it is the original meaning - with my own twist - that is very …

Inaccessibility Means…

You may or may not be aware, but disability twitter is a place that you should be keeping up with if you have even a passing interest in disability issues.  It's a loud, rich, diverse, opinionated, wild place full of interesting thoughts and ideas.  And the hashtags that take off there?  Well they tend to …

A Matter of Pride

Shortly after I published my most recent blog, in which I referred briefly to the idea of disability pride - somebody commented the following - you can still see this comment at the beneath that 'Embodying Defiance' piece: "Pride in disability makes no more sense than pride in ability, so why are you “wrestling with it”? …

Embodying Defiance

I live in a country where my government is hostile to my existence as a disabled person. As this excellent tweet and replies show, the never-ending fight for needed support and benefits such as PIP means walking a tightrope between playing the game in order to jump through the correct hoops, and pushing back against levels of …