By Shalene Gupta — 2021
“If you’re trying to get home and the bus keeps passing you up because you’re in a wheelchair, you have to scream out.”
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Sometimes you have to come up with unique ways to show love if your partner has a disability.
The reality-show star says he’s living with H.I.V., and speaks about being an addict and a sexual abuse survivor.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
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I am very particular about the use of ‘healing others’ as I believe that term creates a certain level of superiority that I find disempowering. When I chose to take responsibility of allowing myself to be fully revealed, I allowed the seed inside of me to be fully expressed.