A version of this blog was originally published in Breaking Ground, a quarterly publication of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities I am a person with a disability. I survived a traumatic brain injury following a car wreck when I was 18. My disability is visible in the partial paralysis of the right side of my body which affects the […]
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Self-Preservation and Saying “No” as a Parent
Saying “no,” is something I have learned is essential to my self-preservation. As much as I don’t like it, I’ve found that saying no can actually make me a better parent and spouse. I recently had to turn down speaking at a large conference in my field, something I’d actively lobbied for, pursued, and then […]