Do you feel like a burden?
Is it a common experience to feel like a burden, and how can we push against this?
Is it a common experience to feel like a burden, and how can we push against this?
Pieta and Olivia reflect on disabled adults' relationships with their parents and what they did to raise them well - or poorly - into disabled adults.
Pieta Bouma introduces a new podcast sharing the ways we navigate the trickiest parts of being disabled - like am I a burden and did my parents make me ableist?
Pieta Bouma and Olivia Shivas ask: Should disabled people take more risks?
To look at someone else’s joy and privilege and feel it for them, says Pieta Bouma, without trying to grasp onto that joy for yourself, is liberation and love.
Pieta Bouma takes photos of her empty wheelchair in nature as a reminder that while she's reliant on it, she must also trust nature and the people around her.