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Finding Love and Acceptance in a Wheelchair: A Journey of Self-Discovery
I remember after a month, still laying in the hospital bed I told my father I thought I would be forever alone. He said 'If I would meet...


Making Your Environment More Accessible - Small effort, big difference.
So maybe you have a relative, a friend, a colleague or a neighbor that goes through life using a wheelchair. Or maybe you've once broke...


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...
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