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Episode 291: Holidays Alone - Safety
What does it take to be alone at the holidays?
What do you need to be emotionally safe at the holidays?
Who can I check in with or can check in with me?
How do you think ahead about physical safety?
What things in...
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290 Pain Tuning in and Out
How much should I pay attention to my pain?
How do I live with chronic pain?
How does turning pain out get me into trouble? How does it serve me? How do I discern?
Given that there aren't obvious answers, this is...
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Episode 289: Double Dutch
Have you ever played double Dutch? How do you join that rhythm already in motion? Once I've lost momentum, how do I start again? We are all hurting right now. In times of duress it is easy to abandon the things...
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Episode 288: Control %!#?@
We all want control.
How does chronic illness impact that?
Loss of control is a hallmark of chronic illness.
What does my hair have to do with chronic illness and control?
When there is so little that I can control,...
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Episode 287: Beginning Again
I'm here. I've been laid low. This most recent health crisis left me raw. 2020 has been hard for so many of us. Even before the blood clots, I was telling you about what a train wreck my life was.
What does...
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Episode 286: Blood Clots
Episode 286: Blood Clots by Annette Leonard
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Episode 285: Port Problems
Episode 285: Port Problems by Annette Leonard
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Episode 284: The ADA - Representation
What more can we imagine about accessibility?
Today's thought was prompted by reading I'm doing in Layla Saad's book "Me and White Supremacy," thinking about tokenism.
Who are the groups you represent or help make...
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Episode 283: The ADA - Inclusion
What is remarkable about the ADA?
What else could the ADA be doing?
What's the difference between access and inclusion?
What could full inclusion look like?
When barriers are removed, how can people proceed?
Have you...
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Episode 282: The ADA - Rights Without Oversight
How did the ADA not go far enough?
This is a law that was put into place without an enforcement body.
How are complaints about access currently addressed?
How could we have more comprehensive oversight or...
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Episode 281: The ADA - Part We Got Right
What does "reasonable accommodation" mean?
Why is it one of the things we got right?
How does it impact the provisions of the ADA?
Here's a brief discussion of one of the things we got right with the legislation.
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Episode 280: The ADA-Transformation!
From working with disability activists around the world, I've learned a few things:
More than 181 countries have passed legislation to protect and provide access to people with disabilities.
How did the disability...
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