Take control of your diet - Eating Healthy as a Wheelchair User is Essential
What to eat when you are a wheelchair user? It’s very easy to gain weight when you are sitting all day. Especially when you move less...
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Let's Talk About Sex
Can you have sex? Can you have kids? These are very common questions abled people ask me, being a wheelchair user, a paraplegic. The...
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The Unseen Consequences of COVID-19: Medical Supply Shortages - A Personal Story
Most of the time I don’t let spinal cord injury related problems get to me. Some problems don't seem big but the butterfly effect is...
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Labeled and Unlabeled: Diversity and Inclusion: Is One Possible Without the Other?
Every person is unique. And that's your greatest strength. I never fitted in, so I know what being labelled as 'different' feels like. I...
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Challenging Myself: A Journey from Paralyzed to Performer
A few days ago I woke up and while trying to get out of bed, during the transfer from my bed to my wheelchair I noticed one of the tires...
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Three Years of Living With a Disability - Life Lessons
Discovering the Strength Within: Living with a Disability for Three Years and What I Learned Along the Way My mom texted me this morning...
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What living with a Spinal Cord Injury
Not knowing what a SCI truly meant, I've found out the hard way. Before I got injured I've never had any health problems. The life...
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Topsport
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has devastating consequences for the physical, social and vocational well-being of the injured person....
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The airplane experience
A year ago I travelled for the first time by airplane since being in a wheelchair. The first time it was a short flight of 2 hours and I...
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Domino Effect
We all have good and bad days or weeks. My days are filled with dealing with "accessible". Yesterday and the day before that I couldn't...
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Become a Diamond
For some it's easier than for others but as times passes and situations occur we need to adapt at some points in our lives. Adapting...
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Still Single (& Disabled)
"But you're too pretty to be in a wheelchair" is a comment I often hear. Having a disability is linked to being unattractive, sick or...
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Winning Loser
When people ask you what you do in life, what do you say? It's normal to reply by telling what you do for a living. Right? I feel like I...
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Desexualized
I’m a wheelchair user now. Not by choice. Accidents happen. I got used to using the wheels, but my environment didn’t. Accessibility...
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I want to Walk Again
Since exo-skeletons are very expensive, starting at 90.000 euros, it's not some amount (most) people just have. So what would you do?...
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Purpose
If you are familiar with the Maslow pyramid then you might heard about self-actualization. According to Abraham Maslow,...
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Die Trying
Motivation is overrated. To feel the desire to act, doesn't mean you will accomplish. Maybe you have to go though a lot of struggle and...
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Adapted Clothing?
Clothes, we all need it to protect our bodies but we also use it to communicate who we are, it's part of out identity. When you have a...
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The Bright Side Of being disabled
There must be some positive side to this all. Yes, of course! I believe there is. Being disabled is not always bad. Here is why. Number 1:...
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Motivate Yourself
My skiing accident happened on a Sunday morning in Spain. The operated me 5 days later and I almost didn't make it. My spine was cut open...
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