Bad Blogging Habits You Need To Break

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/52TG4wND0mEaACNkpNhF9Y?si=ZYW7P72pRG-HtqZSVv6JEQ Blogging is very therapeutic, and you can learn a lot from your fellow bloggers, but it takes a lot of work to build a blog and requires you to spend a lot of time sitting at your computer writing posts. Your health should always be a higher priority than your … Continue reading Bad Blogging Habits You Need To Break

How To Feel Confident In Your Body When You Have A Disability

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JyN3TjBY2aLapPf7Hno8g?si=KXgBeNSqSsSLwZTC-X2Cyg Body confidence is more difficult when you have a disability because you can't go on highly restrictive diets or do extreme workouts like non-disabled people can without severe consequences. It is summertime, which means a lot of people are going to the beach and will likely be wearing a bathing … Continue reading How To Feel Confident In Your Body When You Have A Disability

How To Blog With Pain

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/6O5zYmIkLzUGvkpT3kaeuS?si=Yofwi2U6Sna88pkLw4k26Q Blogging when you live with pain is more difficult than blogging without pain because pain can be distracting and affect your ability to create quality content. I started experiencing chronic pain a few years ago that never went away, and I am in pain constantly, even though you can't always … Continue reading How To Blog With Pain

Why You Shouldn’t Compare Yourself To People Online

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/2XLMxPywRDidafdLPrP0GC?si=unQCvCkvQDyp_XLZ8RyMWg When you get on social media, it is so easy to get online and start comparing yourself to other creators who have more followers than you. As a disabled creator who has been online for seven years, I know that I am not the best creator on the Internet because … Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Compare Yourself To People Online

How To Help A Friend Struggling From Depression

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dFif15hG01u1RTBVyDTgW?si=OhH4ptMuQFS2_rQHrluL-g Disclaimer: In this post, I am sharing how I help my friends who are struggling with depression. I am not a mental health professional, and everything shared is to be used for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Mental illness is often invisible because not … Continue reading How To Help A Friend Struggling From Depression

Why We Need To Be Talking About The Negatives Of A Disability

Listen This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LROK6CNGjBUKWEcofZrVQ?si=msjJQrMCQr629PIu9Vn2SQ Disability awareness isn't just about talking about the positives of your disability, and we also need to be talking about the negatives of disability, even if it makes some people uncomfortable. Non-disabled people sometimes get uncomfortable when disabled people talk about the negatives of a disability and will only want us … Continue reading Why We Need To Be Talking About The Negatives Of A Disability

How Filmmakers Get Disability Wrong

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fkAHJgNXgnZTplcS2xUIj?si=6uFrEJT9Si2sZBhpxbq_hA Disability is one of the most under-represented communities in the media, and even when disabled characters are represented in TV shows, it is often poor representation because a vast majority of the time, non-disabled people play disabled parts. As a disabled person, I love it when movies include disabled people … Continue reading How Filmmakers Get Disability Wrong

Guest Post: Finding Happiness And Satisfaction In A Life With Chronic Illness

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/2exaG2UHbnKeO1rU7sTanH?si=TliYor4gR2-ZPoXhmkntsA This guest post was written by Sue Jackson, the creator of Live With ME/CFS My family’s chronic illness story is a complicated one. It began on March 2, 2002, when I woke up feeling very sick, with a terrible sore throat and flu-like aches. Prior to that, I had been … Continue reading Guest Post: Finding Happiness And Satisfaction In A Life With Chronic Illness

Why Should You Celebrate My Assistive Devices?

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YwuPinCvARAvva88BVGFO?si=3_464N39Q8qZoDMbwhJ7BQ When you have a physical disability, assistive devices often are not a choice and are necessary for disabled people to move and have some level of independence. I live with a physical disability and have been using assistive devices my entire life because I have never had the leg muscles … Continue reading Why Should You Celebrate My Assistive Devices?

A Little Bit About Me

Listen To This Post https://open.spotify.com/episode/27879g3N1NcyVNlXyfc9vY?si=yazX4ycJRzKUpwr3oY6lrg Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Sarah, and I live with a physical disability called Spina Bifida that also comes with a lot of other health challenges, such as chronic migraine, Hydrocephalus, neurogenic bladder and bowel, hip dysplasia, orthopedic issues, and many other challenges I have not … Continue reading A Little Bit About Me