Brooke is talking with Ryann, disability advocate and registered nurse on wheels. They discuss careers, doing what you want to do when you want to accomplish everything along with being driven and how accepting your disability can be the key to your liberation
Ryann also discusses how learning to do things differently and doing what’s right for you and your body can positively impact on your career and life
KEY TAKEAWAYS
I did everything I wasn’t supposed to do without knowing I wasn’t supposed to be doing it
I had been advocating for my disability for years, without thinking about it, in healthcare as a nurse and my entire life I’ve had to do things a little differently
It’s merging both my knowledge of healthcare and as a patient to help others
It’s empowering to see someone else with a disability out and about and living their lives
Disability and sex are the last taboo
The thing I’m most proud of in my disability journey is doing the right thing for my body that lets me be the best nurse, the best advocate and the best human I can be
Going through everything made me stop putting my disability in a bag behind me and only pulling it out when it was useful to me and accept this is the body I’ve been given and to continue doing what I’m doing I have to do things a little differently
When you are disabled you are learning all the time and you learn to think outside the box
Being in a wheelchair was liberating I was able to live on my own for the first time
This is the only life and body you have been given and you have just a much right to enjoy it as anyone else
BEST MOMENTS
‘I would have benefited to have someone in my life growing up that was out and disabled and talking about it’
‘We are very good at thinking outside the box’
‘In this world we have able bodied people who don’t know enough educating disabled people who need it to be their entire lives’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Disabled & Proud Podcast
ABOUT THE HOST
Disabled and Proud is the show that brings listeners a different perspective on disability. Each week this podcast highlights an awesome disabled guest speaking about their own disability; why they are proud to be disabled and why they are proud to be themselves.
The conversations in this show will look at what challenges these amazing people face socially, mentally, physically and life in general. This show is raw, open, honest, funny, welcoming and educational.
Disabled & Proud does exactly what it says on the tin! And whilst we are creating this space for disabled people to be unashamedly themselves, without the need to conform to society, this is also not about toxic positivity. This show will be shining a big, bright light on disability without it being “Paralympic or pity”.
As you will hear disability is WHOLE, COMPLETE & PERFECT and whilst the topic of disability can be quite heavy - and we definitely don't shy away from the bad days - this podcast is also about having fun too! Our aim is to play a part in reclaiming the word disability - turning it from inadequacy to perfection!
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