Blogger | Felina Tiger Lopez

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...

Love, Learn, Relax: The Only New Year's Resolution You Need

Stop smoking? Start exercising? Eat healthy? More work/life balance? Make more money? I don't do New Year's resolutions. My only goal...

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...

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...

Topsport

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has devastating consequences for the physical, social and vocational well-being of the injured person....

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...

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...

Reflection; Millennial Failures

A lot of people in their twenties act like being 29 is the last year of their lives. Well I personally think there is no need to be so...

Prevention

To prevent is better than to cure. It's a Dutch saying and I try to keep it in mind when I order water instead of alcohol or when I...

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...

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...

You Are what you Like

Doesn't it seem like everybody is wanting to be like someone else these days. And mostly just famous because of status or money. Open...

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...

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...

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?...

Purpose

If you are familiar with the Maslow pyramid then you might heard about self-actualization. According to Abraham Maslow,...

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...

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...

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:...

Unaccessible places

The world is different when you sit. Things are out of reach. As you can imagine supermarkets are not arranged for kids, little people or...