Episode Details

Can there be anything good about being paralysed? Seven things, and I am only half joking about most of them.

Reframing is one of the most useful skills we have. It does not delete the bad. It makes it liveable. So: I do not get the aches from sitting still that my incomplete friends get. I do not do the housework. I get the comfortable seat at the cinema while everybody else chews their knees. Anything I do at all gets treated as impressive, so I can fail badly and still be fine. Some of it is genuinely not a bonus. Carers in your home is not a bonus.

One thing to try: Take one hard thing in your life and find one real gift inside it. Not a silver lining. A gift.

In this episode

• (2:41) Why reframing matters more than positivity
• (5:44) Number one, and it is about aching
• (7:30) If somebody tied my legs up I would not know
• (8:47) I do not do the dusting
• (11:16) People compare me anyway, so surprise them
• (12:34) I can tell a disabled joke
• (14:08) Pendennis Castle and the grass
• (16:26) The part that is honestly not a bonus
• (20:17) Reframing does not remove the bad. It makes it liveable

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