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What Should I Do If Someone Tells Me They’ve Been Abused? The 5-Step VEEEL Method — Awake
Shared from https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/97357558/posts/4074829400 and originally from Awake Milwaukee. http://www.awakemilwaukee.org During Awake’s Courageous Conversation in May, “Trauma and Resilience in the Body of Christ,” panelist Deborah Rodriguez, MD, described the five-step method that she recommends using if someone discloses to you that they have experienced some form of trauma, such as sexual abuse. Rodriguez, a general… Continue reading What Should I Do If Someone Tells Me They’ve Been Abused? The 5-Step VEEEL Method — Awake
Thoughts
I’m back from a trip that left me both happy and struggling with questions about where to take the Disability Intersection. I think the main problem is that I want to further articulate why we exist, but this is not easy. I worry about the mental health of people with disabilities and the deep things… Continue reading Thoughts
Traveling and thus Coming Attractions
I will be updating more sporadically as I am on a trip for the next few weeks and will need recovery time afterwards. Stay tuned for: Thoughts on time management that deal with ideas about this with a needed disability/chronic illness focus Poetry featuring more disabled writers as part two of a (belated) National Poetry… Continue reading Traveling and thus Coming Attractions
What Disabled Kids Truly Need
From the age of eighteen months to age nine, I went to a school solely for disabled kids. There we had students who were toddlers through the age of twenty two with various disabilities and health issues. We frequently had assemblies outside and school dances on our outside recreation area/sports court. I would sing at… Continue reading What Disabled Kids Truly Need
Some thoughts on words and resources for learning and action
keeping with the theme of creating the world we want, I offer these resources I found while searching for this. A lot of people, it seems, have this on their minds. I find this encouraging. Many people have said I am a cheerleader type, meaning encouraging. So let’s go, everybody! Have some fun, stick together… Continue reading Some thoughts on words and resources for learning and action
Building our worlds
To change the world, we have to understand what we want and why, to see what we value and why, to listen, to hope, and to play. In that spirit, I share this world building guide for writers and other creative people. Program Developers and Directors, see what might happen for you for the programs… Continue reading Building our worlds
Who’s with me on this? Phones can be fussy and a pain when you have a disability! Presenting a look at some more accessible phones! (I think I hear a Hallelujah Chorus)
Just found this. Passing it on! https://lifezest.co/best-phones-for-disabled-people/
How wide is the sky?
Where is your personal horizon line? In Girl Meets World, a Disney television show that explored the life of Riley Matthews, her best friend Maya and their close group of mutual friends as they navigate middle school and their first year of high school together, Riley’s father Cory is her history teacher. In one episode,… Continue reading How wide is the sky?
National Poetry Month: Disability Style, Part 1
Because we’ve got talent, folks! Disabled Country by Neil Marcus If there was a country called disabled,I would be from there.I live disabled culture, eat disabled food,make disabled love, cry disabled tears,climb disabled mountains and tell disabled stories. If there was a country called disabled,I would say she has immigrants that come to herFrom as… Continue reading National Poetry Month: Disability Style, Part 1