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An Open Letter to Those with Soft Hearts

The world can be hard, cold, and unjust sometimes please don’t let it turn you to the dark side. You have a light, unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Those sticks and stones may have left papercut scars on your soft heart, but your heart still yours and no one can...

The Important Lessons I have Learned about Myself as an Advocate

This July will mark the two-year anniversary of the beginning of what I considered to be my professional writing career. As most of you may or may not know, it all started with my desire to help my sister find answers, and resources after being diagnosed with a very...

An Open Letter To My Former Self 

Dear former me, I am sorry for all the hard lessons, and ignorance you had to endure. Our heart has taken some pretty tough head-on collisions. But the dents and calluses were all part of growing up. For every person that never made the cut, they were simply there to...

To All Those Who Doubted Me Because I Have Cerebral Palsy, Thank You

It is not unusual for people to challenge someone based on various reasons. But when you’re a person with a disability, and a woman to boot the odds and roadblocks are just that high and even more challenging because society tends to look at anything different from a...