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Happy Friday Team😘 (face blowing a kiss emoji)

Happy Friday Team😘 (face blowing a kiss emoji) swipe to see how I am celebrating Friday😂(laughing face emoji)
Image description: Rebecca, a white women with brown hair, wears a pink maxi dress with little flowers on it and pink shoes. She is sitting in a sun chair in the garden with legs over arm rest. 2. Legs in front of her raised up .

#PinkOnPink #SummerAccessories #HappyMoments #FunInTheSun #ItsThatFridayFeeling #HappyFriyay #DisabledAndCute #LadyInPink #DisabledWriter #BeYou #Connection #DisabledAndFree #DisabilityBlogger #FollowTheRainbow #VitaminD #CerebralPalsy #DisabledLiving #DisabledLife #LifeWithADisability #LiveColourfully #LaughMore #DocumentingLife

Creating my reel last week, having heeps amount of $Creating my reel last week, having heeps amount of fun bopping to a classic Spice Girl track, whilst sharing insights and a fraction of things within disability etiquette, strangely got me in a reflective mood. I wrote with a little sass “Love from your Disabled Spice”. I have no reservations about using these words but I did have a little ambivalence over how this sounded at first. The white noise of society would have you think Disabled and Spice were polar opposites: disabled denoting lifelessness or uncomfortable thoughts, whilst spice spark ideas of flair and and fire. How then could you possibly write these words next to each other? The 90s had people unreservedly identify themselves to the one spices that everyone had playing loudly on their radios unapologetically- minus a few times that they got lyrics wrong (that was meee-a lot !!!)-, to adjectives they either aspired to or saw modelled in fiercely cool way, things that they recognised in themselves so they then were able to embrace this. The simple answer to the above question is misrepresentation of this word, disabled, dismissing its gloriousness and unable to comprehend that this is just a part of what’s it’s like to be human, with seams creating a different outline for each and everyone of us. It’s nothing bad or something to creep around. I wonder if there was representation of those like me back then, with disability seen with a positive lens, would I have embraced my disability at a younger age? Would I still experience vacillating thoughts about how I put things out into the world? I am ever grateful that I found this community that shares both my struggles and insights of the frequent inaccessible society as well as the abundance of joy that comes with disabled living. This community soothes and pulls me back from getting caught on ableist hooks. With this I will stand with my own spice, the delicious #DisabledSpice . Who’s with me?$

I rest confidently in my disabled identity, it’s

I rest confidently in my disabled identity, it’s a part of me. It’s at the core of who I am. I love the community- how we can relate to each other, the similar threads that holds us together that tells us that we’re not alone-. I love the creative innovation within disabled individuals, which enables them and then the rest of us to access, enjoy and explore the world, I love the disabled joy that comes with and from this. This all equals my Disability Pride.

Though there’s another part that doesn’t always seem that to fit this description, on the surface, yet I know that it is a key part….Disability Pride isn’t just about inhaling all what is good. For more on my thoughts on this head over to my blog !

Image description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wears a rainbow coloured strap dress-above the knee , rainbow plimsolls and sunglasses with a rainbow rim. She is sitting in her wheelchair that has peach spoke guards with multicoloured butterflies dotted around on it. A lake is behind her

#DisabilityPrideMonth DisabledLiving #AbleismIsTrash #DisabilityWriter #DisabledAndProud #EndStigma #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #DisabilityPride #CPAwareness #DisabilityAdvocate #DisabilityRights #DisabilityInclusion #Inclusivity #InclusiveSociety #CreateChange #DisabledIsNotaBadWord #StartConversations #DisabilityRights

Your Disabled Spice has come to say a few words…

Your Disabled Spice has come to say a few words…

Video description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wears a green blue purple and yellow t shirt And denim culottes and sitting on a sofa. Rebecca points to the sky, words come “Absolute NOs when interacting with Disabled People…” Rebecca points with her left hand to the right of her body. Words come up “Making assumptions and us“. She then repeats action with words coming up “Congratulating us for doing every day things “. She then points with her right hand to her left. Words come up “Asking intrusive questions “ Action is repeated, words come upSpeaks to the person we’re with instead of us ”. She moves her left hand across The screen words come up “Please take these on board, love your Disabled Spice”
Cc girls sing “Swing it shake it move it make it
Who do you think you are Trust it use it prove it groove it Show me how good you are Swing it shake it move it make it Who do you think you are”

#SpiceGirls #DisabledSpice#DisabilityAdvocacy #GirlPower #90sSounds #90santhems #InspirationPorn
#DisabilityEducation #CallingOutAbleism #DisabilityPride #HaveMoreFun #DoYou #DisabledAnd #DisabledLiving #LiveColourfully #RaiseYourVoice #DisabilityCommunity #ThinkingOutLoud #timeisnow

Rainbows and (very hot) sunshine in July 🌞🌈❤️( sun smiley face emoji, rainbow emoji , red heart emoji)
I got these fab sunshine glasses from @katieabey, which are of course my new favs 😎🌈 (Face with sunglasses emoji, rainbow emoji)

Side note- Photo was taken pre peak heat- I’ve been more of a rreeaalyy ripe tomato most of this week 😂(laughing face emoji)

Image description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wears a rainbow coloured strap dress-above the knee , rainbow plimsolls and sunglasses with a rainbow rim. She wears a pink crochet hat with white Daisy heads dotted around on it. She sits on a log with trees behind her 2Side close up of the sunglasses which have the words Proud Weirdo on the rims

#Rainbows #KatieAbey #ProudWeirdo #SummerEssentials #SummerAccessories #LiveNow #Writer #BeBold #BeFree #ColourPop #HappyGirl #HappyPlace #GratefulHeart #Nature #SpreadHappiness #TheGreatOutdoors #Adventures

What would you add? Image description: words read

What would you add?
Image description: words read “Community
Conversation Creativity Representation
Understanding and appreciation = Disability Pride” in black writing in the centre on a pink background. Around this is a white boarder with colourful zigzags and circles dotted around on it. At the bottom in the center has the handle @fromthiswindow

#DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabledJoy

Internalised ableism. It’s a funny thing. It’s $Internalised ableism. It’s a funny thing. It’s something that creeps in and reeks havoc with the mind, unconsciously. It just appears anywhere, anytime. It’s the biggest test as it tells me the parts of me that are still fractured and malleable, with thoughts easily swayed by this seemingly all knowing voice. It always feels brand new when it arrives and so can be hard to know how to navigate. It sounds like a whisper and a booming voice all at the same time you. It feels heavy and trapping. It looks like your own personal storm as thoughts whirl around at a frightening speed beneath an angry sky. Growing up internalised ableism has more of an influence and dictatorship with its slogan “Be non-disabled as possible “ capturing undivided attention from its audience. Though its face was fully masked in the hustle and bustle and pressures of what it is to be a teen, so I thought this was the whole truth. There were times especially in my older teen years that I just wanted to be a teen and not teen with a disability. Back then I didn’t have the knowledge or language to say to myself that I was internalising societal views and expectations and that I didn’t need to listen and waste time wishing my disability away that now I proudly deem as a core part of me. These days when I find myself comparing or thinking wouldn’t it be easier if I didn’t have difficulty climbing stairs or if people could understand my speech all the time for example, I know this is not my true voice. If I wasn’t conditioned by society and it’s hard, fixed, narrowed view, perhaps I wouldn’t have times wishing my disabledness into non-existence. The lovely @cpandm_e , the other day, beautifully wrote about how lives, how they look and the speed at which they go at will all be different and that this is ok. How soothing is that?! There is soo much more I want to write but for now, this is a reminder to you and I that the next time internalised ableism has tried to burrow its way into your mind, try not to sucked into all it says. You are worth way more than this ❤️(red heart emoji)$

There is so many myths around using a wheelchair a

There is so many myths around using a wheelchair and how ‘sad’ it must be. The only sad thing is these myths, extremely frustrating actually. Wheelchair give life to so many and allows the perfect space to boogie to tunes 🙃(upside down smiley face emoji)
Video description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wears a deep blue midi summer dees with rainbow circles dotted around on it, red shoes and red glasses. She sits in her wheelchair that has peach spoke guards with multicoloured butterflies dotted around on it from @izzywheels.
Rebecca points to the sky words come “My wheelchair is…” Rebecca points with her left hand to the right of her body. Words come up “Freedom “. She then repeats action with words coming up “Not a limitation “. She then points with her right hand to her left. Words come up “My access to the world”. action is repeated , words come up “My wheelchair helps me lead a fulfilling life”

Cc up beat music. Pharrell Williams sings “Hold on to me Don't let me go Who cares what they see? Who cares what they know?
Your first name is Free Last name is Do

#MyWheelchairIsMyFreedom #DebunkingMyths #DisabilityPrideMonth #WheelchairPride #DisabledAndProud #DisabledAndFree #IzzyWheels #HotDisabledSummer #BabeWithAMobilityAid #AbleismIsTrash #DisabilityAwareness #LifeOnWheels #WheelchairLife #EndStigma#Advocacy #FollowTheRainbow #LiveYourLife #HappyMoments #LifeFromAChair #DisabilityBlogger #DisabledLiving #DisabilityLifestyle #DifferentAidsForDifferentDays #DisabledIsNotABadWord #SummerTime

Hey Team! Today there’s a new post on my blog. T

Hey Team! Today there’s a new post on my blog. This one is all about whether we do actually have to get comfortable with discomfort?
The last few weeks my neck has been playing up so been getting lots of rest, always difficult when you just want to get on with stuff. I did however read a entire book that I wanted to read for ages: Speak Your Truth by @fearnecotton . This insightful book had me reflect on all sorts, particularly on this year on times when I have succeeded using my voice has been and on others where I have failed to practice using this instrument. Either outcome left a feeling of unease, which perhaps is just human nature.

I also thought, in this blog post,about how sometimes remedies for physical pain can be more available, and so easier to navigate (of course depending on what this is) than say for things that pull on your emotional strings. For example, the warmth of Deep Heat for my neck has been almost instantaneous, if only for a while, but there is no easy, quick, painless solution on how I could go about unlocking words that I needed to say. It requires going against the automatic response to shut down.

It’s no secret that most of us are creatures of habit and so we are always waiting for that right time…but we all know such a moment would have us waiting a life time. Sometimes we just got to go for it. So as excruciating as using your voice on things that make your heart beat faster, sometimes we just try move through it…
If you fancy a read of more on my thoughts on this, you can find it through the link in my bio

Image description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wears a chiffon summer dress that is mainly with black and mint green squares and flowers dotted around on it. Rebecca is sitting on a step in the garden surrounded by plants.

#SpeakYourTruth #ThinkingOutLoud #Writing #OpenHeart #TrustYourHeart #Blogging #Reflection #DisabilItyWriter #RaiseYourVoice #TimeIsNow
#BePresent #LifeInColour #LiveNow #DisabledAndCute #DisabledJoy #LiveYourLife #BooksBooksBooks #BookWorm #Inspired #FeelAlive #Blogger #StartTheConversations #WellnessHygiene #SummerTime #HappyPlace

Seeing @harrystyles with ma girl @mairead.may last

Seeing @harrystyles with ma girl @mairead.may last night was Golden (pun definitely intended) ✨🙃🍉❤️(cluster of stars emoji, upside down smiley face emoji, slice of watermelon emoji, red heart emoji)

Image description: Rebecca, a white woman with long brown hair, wears a multicoloured dress, a denim jacket, a rainbow feather boa and pink shoes and is sitting in her wheelchair that has peach spoke guards with multicoloured butterflies dotted around on it. She is outside Wembley Stadium at the bottom of rainbow stairs( before she took the lift up) with arms out stretched.
2 Rebecca is in the stadium as she excitedly waits for Harry Styles behind to her left is the stage
3 she is pointing to Mr Styles who is wowing the audience with his talent.

#LoveOnTour #HarryStyles #AsItWas #SugarHigh #WembleyStadium #GirlsNight #Rainbow #PopMusic #DisabledJoy #LiveInTheMoment #ANightToRemeber #DisabledAndCute #HappyMoments #TreatPeopleWithKindness #SpreadColour #IzzyWheels #LiveColourfully #ForTheLoveOfMusic #FeelMusic #LiveNow #Adventures #SummerTime #LiveMusic

Just a little reminder ❤️ (red heart emoji) I

Just a little reminder ❤️ (red heart emoji)

Image description: words read “You don’t need to prove your worth” on a red rectangle.
Around this is a white boarder with colourful zigzags and circles dotted around on it. At the bottom in the center has the handle @fromthiswindow

#YouAreEnough #DailyReminder #DisabledAndProud #DisabilityAwareness #CerebralPalsyAwareness #EndStigma #DisabilityCommunity #WeStandTogether #WhenICallMyselfDisabled #DisabilityWriter #Wellness #Activism #WordsMatter #LoveAndKindness #SpeakYourTruth #SpreadKindness #DisabilityLifestyle #AbleismIsTrash #ThinkingOutLoud #DisabledLiving #OneStepAtATime #BabeWithAMobilityAid #DisabilItyWriter #BeKind #EndStereotyping #StartTheConversations #Connection

Sitting on rainbows🌈💕🌸(rainbow. Big and s

Sitting on rainbows🌈💕🌸(rainbow. Big and small pink heart)
Image description: Rebecca, a white woman with brown hair, wear a pink dress with Daisy heads dotted around on it and a pink crochet hat with Daisy heads dotted around on it. She is sitting on a step of the stairs that are painted in different colour

#Rainbows #GirlsJustWannaHaveFun #MakeMemories #Magic #LiveLoveLaugh#LiveInTheMoment #ISeeTheSea #HappyPlace #LoveAndKindness #BeFree #HighVibrations #DisabledAndFree #PinkOnPink #Coast #DisabledWriter #LiveLoveLaugh #FindTheFun #Daises #Adventures #SummerTime #HappyMoments

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