A well-educated
couple I know have had issues finding and keeping jobs for the last 25 years.
Both now have chronic conditions. It made be wonder about the interplay between
negative responses to difficult situations and on-going health concerns. Does
having a chronic condition become a convenient justification or rationale for
not finding a job, a significant other, or some other goal one has difficultly
achieving?
As I was mulling this over, I found myself inspired by Caroline Casey’s TED talk where she made the comment Stop with the labels … because we are not jam jars; we are extraordinary, different, wonderful people.
Casey found out at 17 that
she had been legally blind since birth. Her parents had made a conscious
decision not to raise her with labels of being disabled or treating her as
“special.” She is testament that you are what you believe yourself to be. At 28, she could no longer deny her vision
issues and finally accepted “all the bits” about herself . Not only was this
empowering and freeing, it allowed her to start some amazing projects and
become a “social entrepreneur.”
I started with my usual “consider” list but decided
that this was a good opportunity to update Healing the Whole Person: Ways to Increase Well Being, which contains lots of helpful “considers” l and is worth a few minutes to review
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