"Accessible" tells me almost nothing. A toilet can be accessible, yet missing a grab bar. A conference room can have carpet. I do the math on all of it, every day.

Nobody sees this math. A researcher gave it a name: crip spacetime.

Acceptance releases the negative emotion attached to what changed — and it matters. For people with spinal cord injury, greater acceptance is consistently linked to better quality of life and mental health.

But re-appraisal goes further: it asks what a role actually meant to you underneath how you used to perform it, and how you want to perform it now, fully, as yourself.

Toilet access on planes is a documented, unresolved barrier in the accessibility research. Yet it places people at risk. It is time to make a change!

A pattern worth naming, for World Tourism Day: the gap between what's advertised as accessible and what's actually available when a disabled traveler shows up.

Travel affects wellbeing through at least two distinct channels: positive emotion — joy and awe — and self-efficacy, the confidence built from proving your own competence.

My first trip after my accident gave me two things I didn't expect: a lesson on how to advocate for myself— and joy from watching my son dip his toes in the ocean.

With the right kind of support, nobody has to be left behind on family trips. Rafting as a paraplegic is possible. And in doing I left a lasting impression.

What if the thing that helped me most in rehab wasn't a stretch or an exercise — it was one sentence, years apart from the exercise itself?

There's a name for it in psychology: RISE — your sense of how much your therapist believes in you. Research shows it predicts your own self-efficacy and effort, sometimes more than what you already believe about yourself.

Psychologists Oishi and Westgate (2022) argue a good life has three separate dimensions — happiness, meaning, and psychological richness — and most of us default to organizing our lives around only the first two.

I am sharing about how I found a way to live a Rick Life as a paraplegic mother.

Anxiety and back to school for a mom with a spinal cord injury. We all either hate or love the September return back to school time. Very few of us feel indifferent about it anyway.