Chronic Wellness

Chronic Wellness

By Annette LeonardHealth & Fitness
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Chronic Wellness episodes

  • Episode 284: The ADA - Representation
    What more can we imagine about accessibility?
    Today's thought was prompted by reading I'm doing in Layla Saad's book "Me and White Supremacy," thinking about tokenism.
    Who are the groups you represent or help make sure are at the table?
    When can I be asking "who have we not heard from?" "Who is not represented that needs to be?"
    Similarly, where are those of us with disabilities - particularly in media?
    Who are your favorite actors/characters with disabilities in entertainment or media?
    8 min
  • Episode 283: The ADA - Inclusion
    What is remarkable about the ADA?
    What else could the ADA be doing?
    What's the difference between access and inclusion?
    What could full inclusion look like?
    When barriers are removed, how can people proceed?
    Have you participated in places/spaces that are doing this well? We'd love to hear about what that looks like!
    6 min
  • Episode 282: The ADA - Rights Without Oversight
    How did the ADA not go far enough?
    This is a law that was put into place without an enforcement body.
    How are complaints about access currently addressed?
    How could we have more comprehensive oversight or accountability?
    What has been your experience?
    3 min
  • Episode 280: The ADA-Transformation!
    From working with disability activists around the world, I've learned a few things:
    More than 181 countries have passed legislation to protect and provide access to people with disabilities.
    How did the disability movement take a note from previous civil rights movements?
    What was the hard line they took that brings a lump in my throat today?
    How does this call me to be a better version of myself?
    Who can I include that I might not have?
    For more information contact Mobility International USA MIUSA.org
    7 min
  • Episode 279: The ADA - What Is A Disability?
    In the first 18 years of the ADA, the definition of Disability had gotten very limited.
    The ADAAA set out to correct that problem. (To review: watch episodes 241-245 or this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLursF4R-Unw-HfI7260inwJF15Xy-K03M )
    What does it mean to be Disabled?
    How does changing the systems, attitudes, structures, and beliefs, start to make positive changes for more than just those we set out to improve things for?
    For more information check out this article I wrote about the ADA:
    https://themighty.com/2020/07/30-years-americans-disabilities-act/
    6 min
  • Episode 278: Thirty Years Of The ADA
    The ADA was the first civil rights law in the world to protect the rights of and provide access for people with Disabilities.
    If you have chronic illness, you likely have disabling conditions and the ADA is there to protect you!
    Education, housing, transportation, employment, and public spaces, these are the areas to which the ADA provided access.
    First person stories about disability played a big role in raising the consciousness of the 101st congress about access issues.
    How have you been impacted by the ADA?
    6 min
  • Episode 277: PostOp Realness
    How have I let our relationship issues impact how I ask for what I need?
    What ways do I limit myself or create my own obstacles?
    How can I get out of my own way?
    The pattern of trying to make myself smaller so that I don't have to have needs of others or rely on them is still ingrained in me after so many years of trying to change it.
    This surgery highlighted that again.
    Is this something you struggle with, too?
    5 min
  • Episode 276: PostOp Update
    How has it been to get a new PowerPort?
    What is the placement like?
    I wonder why recovery has been more difficult than I expected?
    When do you notice your energy flagging?
    What things have taken more out of you than you expected?
    In the midst -- what are the things that feed you and light you up?
    4 min

About Chronic Wellness

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Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain? Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations. We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions. My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard.