Radiant Living Blog
In a few weeks, the first episode of the Dating, Relationships, and Disability podcast will be available. I’m very excited to be working on bringing a show together that offers strategies, encouragement, and mindset tips on dating with a disability. Episodes feature guidance and practical...
“Am I choosing my dreams, rather than buying into sexual ableism?” Ask yourself this if you’re not having success in dating with a disability.
You may not like that question and even be a little offended by it.
But sometimes those harder questions and more specifically, the...
Body shame is one of the hardest things that impacts dating with a disability. People really don’t like to talk about it.
There’s a particular type of body shame for people with disabilities. It involves feeling negative about yourself that is then connected to shame about how your...
People on social media and the Confidently Dating with Disability Facebook group say frequently how hard dating with a disability can be.
There’s no sugarcoating it. Sexual ableism is alive and well with judgments, fear, narrow-mindedness, and archaic beliefs about disabilities.
When...
“So how are you doing with me having a disability?” I asked my date this bold question after we ordered dessert. I have never been this bold. In this dating moment, I knew that if I didn’t ask it, sexual ableism would seize the moment and I would probably never see him again.
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Dating confidence comes down to what you believe about yourself and your potential as a partner. As with most things in life, it’s about your mindset.
No one can tell you what to believe. That’s up to you. There are five types of beliefs that will help you feel more positive and...
Jessica Kramer is back with her most compelling message to date (no pun intended). If you’re looking for a relationship, life with a disability, and maybe are a bit terrified of rejection, keep reading. Hope and encouragement are in store.
My relationship status used to be “its...
Were you a little infuriated by last week’s post about the Let’s Cure CP Facebook page or about the pleas for prayer to heal CP – or any disability?
Jessica Kramer, Disability Studies graduate student, wrote a wonderful reflection on how the world continues to want to...
Special guest post by Jessica Kramer, a second-year Masters Student in Disability Studies at Syracuse University. If you would like to submit a guest post on living with a disability, please email me at [email protected].
Disclose….Don’t...
“I don’t feel attractive.”
As I said in my last post, this is a nearly universal response people report as a concern/fear in the dating with disabilities survey.
I grew up with that concern and didn’t shed it until I was well into my thirties, despite dating and...
I believe that my disability makes me unattractive.
I receive comments like this pretty consistently on the Dating for People with Disabilities survey that I always have available for people to take.
The words continue to hurt with every response I read, not out of pity, but empathy.
I...
