What to eat when you are a wheelchair user? It’s very easy to gain weight when you are sitting all day. Especially when you move less...

Can you have sex? Can you have kids? These are very common questions abled people ask me, being a wheelchair user, a paraplegic. The...

Most of the time I don’t let spinal cord injury related problems get to me. Some problems don't seem big but the butterfly effect is...

Every person is unique. And that's your greatest strength. I never fitted in, so I know what being labelled as 'different' feels like. I...

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...

Discovering the Strength Within: Living with a Disability for Three Years and What I Learned Along the Way My mom texted me this morning...

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...

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has devastating consequences for the physical, social and vocational well-being of the injured person....

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

I’m a wheelchair user now. Not by choice. Accidents happen. I got used to using the wheels, but my environment didn’t. Accessibility...

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?...

If you are familiar with the Maslow pyramid then you might heard about self-actualization. According to Abraham Maslow,...

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...

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...

There must be some positive side to this all. Yes, of course! I believe there is. Being disabled is not always bad. Here is why. Number 1:...

My skiing accident happened on a Sunday morning in Spain. The operated me 5 days later and I almost didn't make it. My spine was cut open...