Harm reduction is about finding a way to reduce discomfort while having compassion for what our body is telling us it needs right now.
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Harm reduction is about finding a way to reduce discomfort while having compassion for what our body is telling us it needs right now.
But finding something or someone to blame for a body not functioning the way we think it should—whether said body belongs to us or not—negates a simple truth: the human body is as fragile and as unpredictable as fuck. Sickness, disability, mental health issues, accidents, and assault can happen to any of us at any time.
“……although society stubbornly refuses to accept disability as “normal”, the disabled population is the only minority that everyone has a chance of becoming part of one day.”
The verbiage of the problem with disability euphemisms.
So imperative that this is contained within the pages of this book.
There is, of course, a place for Apology in our lives: it is on us to apologize when our actions have hurt somebody. But apologizing for our Body Grief hinders our healing because it means saying sorry for something we have no control over.
Your needs, no matter how outsized or outside of what is considered normal they may be, are just as important as everybody else‘s. Some people may never need the same level and specific kinds of care, assistance, and support that you do—and that‘s okay.
But as humans, we are allowed to have needs, and not everybody‘s needs are equal.
Remember: feelings are not facts. They are designed to come and go, and the reason they are called feelings is to encourage us to do just that: feel them and move forward.
The reality is, our bodies are vulnerable, but they are also built to change and adapt. Sometimes these changes and adaptations are painful, messy, inconvenient, and they stop us from getting what we believe we desire, or what we believe we need.
But this is the human condition. Shock only forces us to accept it.
