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Rainy Days

By Georgie Waters

Content Note: OCD symptoms, anxiety, depression

  • Date 26 February 24

A Graduation Journey

By Sam Rowe

Content Note: Disability symptoms

  • Date 12 February 24

Isolation and Epilepsy

By Ashleigh Meikle

Content Note: Mentions of suicide, mental health, ableism, isolation.

  • Date 7 December 23

Love on the Spectrum TV Program

By Anonymous

  • Date 16 October 23

Embracing my disabled identity

By Ashleigh Meikle

Content Note: Themes of ableism, internalised ableism and discrimination, discussions of mental health and anxiety.

  • Date 2 October 23

Chronic pelvic pain: the fire within me.

By Sophie Cusworth

Content Note: This blog contains discussions of pain and themes of medical gaslighting.

  • Date 21 September 23

The Sisterhood of Chronic Pain

By Grace Hall

Content Note: This piece alludes to medical gaslighting.

  • Date 8 September 23

Looking after BOTH the Environment AND your Mental Health

By Georgie Waters

Content Note: Contains discussions about mental health issues

  • Date 31 August 23

What The Hidden Disability Sunflower Initiative Means to Me – A Woman with Chronic Illness.

By Kate May Ditchburn

Content Note: This post contains themes of ableism.

  • Date 21 August 23

Inefficiency is Causing a Health Crisis for Everyone

By Kerry Martin Millan

Content Note: This post contains descriptions of mental health crisis, mention of emotional breakdowns.

  • Date 18 July 23

Things that make you go hmmm…

By Esther Cremona

Content Note: Themes of ableism, ableist behaviour

  • Date 12 June 23

We Need to Talk About Autistic Burnout

By Phoebe Lupton

Content Note: References to ableism, mental ill-health and suicidal ideation

  • Date 2 June 23

Reclaiming my identity as a young stroke survivor

By Nicola Bray

Content Note: This blog contains discussions of ageism.

  • Date 17 May 23

Unscheduled: Art Exhibition on Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Treatment

By Monique Moate

Content Note: Includes discussions of mental health and institutionalisation.

  • Date 8 May 23

Self-worth in an Inaccessible Education System 

By Gipsy Rugen

Content Note: Discussions of self-worth, ableism and internalised ableism.

  • Date 12 April 23

First Round of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) 

By Monique Moate

Content Note: This post includes discussions of mental illness.

  • Date 3 April 23

Living with OCD and a cat

By Georgie Waters

Content Note: Contains discussions about mental health

  • Date 14 March 23

Disabled women are over-employed and underfunded.

By Elena Filipczyk

  • Date 1 March 23

Why women aren’t being diagnosed with ADHD until now.

By Kerry Martin Millan

Content Note: Misdiagnosis, medical gaslighting, trauma, emotional abuse, mental illness

  • Date 14 February 23

Growing up with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By Georgie Waters

Content Note: Mental health difficulties, depression, self-harm

  • Date 1 February 23

Wheelie Good

By Amber Dennis

Content Note: Mentions death and grief.

Why Autistic Friendship for women is Suicide prevention

By Sarah Langston

Content Note: Suicide, sexual violence and medical gaslighting.

Empowering others to love themselves

By Tabitha Page

Content Note: This post contains descriptions of: Medical Gaslighting & Ableism.

Leadership

By Breagh Gregory

On Doing Your Own Thing

By Amelia Saward