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💚 Disabled reflections, colourful fashion, books and words
📖 Finding Yourself within Disability, OUT NOW
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✨🩵It’s publication day Team!!!!! Eeeeekkkk!!! 🩵✨

I cannot believe the day has come where I can say Finding Yourself within Disability is OUT!!

It was an absolute dream to write this book, to write about things that I deeply care about, to celebrate the disability and all it is, to write about the struggles too and how I am navigating them, to write about how I seek disabled joy. I truly truly hope that by sharing snippets of my own experiences I can help others too or at least let others know their not alone ❤️

A massive enormous thank you to my mum and my sister Mairead who not only supported me through this project and listened to every twist and turn I had, but I am grateful for their support with everything they really are the woman I am today. It was an ABSOLUTE given that this book would be dedicated to them❤️

A huge thank you also goes to @jkpbooks for saying yes to this book and making a very big dream come true 🩵

I have also been so overwhelmed by your support on here and I am genuinely so grateful for all your kindness that you have shown. As a bit of an anxious girlie the last few months have been a real test in confidence and you have played such a role in helping ease nerves around book countdowns, so a big big thank you Team ❤️

I really hope Finding Yourself within Disability is a book you will love…. she is now yours 💌

Alt text: I am a white woman with brown hair, wearing a blue tank top and pink tee underneath with jeans. I am sitting on my bed with my book in my hand
#PublicationDay #FindingYourselfWithinDisability #DisabledSelfCare #DisabilityCommunity

This book is dedicated to my gorgeous mum and beautiful sister Mairead. Thank you for everything, I love you with all of my heart xx

Who is this book for?
This book is primarily designed for disabled people, so when I use words such as ‘you’ or ‘we,’ I am speaking to the disabled reader. This is for the reader who:
* ��has not looked at disabled self care before
* ��participates in disabled self-care and wants to read another perspective, perhaps adding to the ways that they look after their disabled self
* ��hasn’t really thought about their disability
* ��feels shame or as if their by @rebeccasullivan__

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23 days ago

I am so so SOOOO excited to share…. I have written a book that will be published on September the 21st and can be preordered now!! 💙🩵💙

Finding Yourself Within Disability: How to Look After Your Disabled Self, is all about implementing self-care to our lives as disabled people. From how we self-identify as a disabled person/ person with a disability to self advocacy to wrestling with internalised ableism to finding disabled joy, I share how we can start to be kinder to our disabled selves.

I have been absolutely itching to share with you this news for so long. From hours of writing on my laptop and now essentially handing this book over to you, it is a very surreal thing!!

I have could not have done this without my nearest and dearest supporting me all the way. I love them so very much ❤️❤️❤️

And huge thank you to @jkpbooks who allowed my dream to come true!!! 💖

There is so so much I want to share with you about this… but for today I will say that you can now preorder Finding Yourself Within Disability through the link in my bio 💙💙

I truly appreciate you sticking around Team and all your support 💞

Image description: I am wearing a midi dark blue dress with green specs on it , a baby blue and purple jacket and blue shoes. I am sitting in my wheelchair that has multi coloured butterflies design on peach coloured spoke guards. I am in the garden and i am pointing to the left. A book cover appears: The Book cover is baby blue, with the word ‘DISABILITY’ in white, written over three lines. Between these lines is the book title: Finding Yourself Within Disability- in dark blue. At the bottom is the subtitle How to Look After Your Disabled Self, in dark blue. There is a cup of tea in the bottom right corner and a chocolate chip cookie in the top left. The name Rebecca Sullivan is at the top in dark blue. On the photo there is a speech bubble that says ‘I wrote a book.’

#BookAnnouncement #DisabledWriter #DisabledSelfCare #DisabledIdentity #IWroteABook by @rebeccasullivan__

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4 months ago

Reads I’m recommending are
@jesskbacon ’s ‘I’m Just A Girl’ about women having a ‘second girlhood’ 🎀
@fearnecotton’s ‘Likeable’ on not getting caught in the viscous cycle of being liked. 🩷
@katherinemay_’s ‘Wintering’ on life’s seasons and finding comfort in difficult times🍂

Plus… a cheeky plug of my book (don’t think I’ll get use to saying that) Finding Yourself within Disability about disabled self care🩵

Video description: I am a white woman with brown hair , wearing a pink tee under a blue tank top and jeans. I am sitting on a bed talking about books.

#BookRecomendations #BooksBooksBooks #WhatImReading #ChattyVideo by @rebeccasullivan__

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7 days ago

It’s Cerebral Palsy day and here’s what CP means to me 💚

Alt text: a series of photos of me , a white woman with brown hair with text
Having Cerebral Palsy means

#WhatCerebralPalsyMeansToMe #WorldCerebralPalsyDay #CPDay #WorldCP #GoGreenForCP

Bering 1 of the 18 million people in the world with CP (which I experience my own version of)

Being a little uncoordinated in movement, but I love to be coordinated with my clothes ( even when I clash colours 🙃)

Wheeling everywhere, with these GORGEOUS butterflies (if I do say so myself)

Sometimes experiencing others treating me
like I’m from another planet which can hit hard sometimes…. that’s a lot of expectation ( but
really it’s just CP it’s really not that deep)

Getting annoyed with myself at the amount of time it takes me to do tasks when in my head I’m miles ahead ( reading a book with tea and biscuits, if you know, you know 🙃)

Needing to rest a bit more than I like or than I used to. Pain has really decided to play its part especially this year ( at this point shares in Deep Heat isn’t a bad idea)

Being just a girl who has her own way of doing things (yes sometimes this means having another pair of hands to help me and that’s okay)

Cerebral Palsy means something different to everyone who has it and its features will vary. I know that for me my pet peeve is being compared to someone else with CP, so this is a gentle nudge not to do this by @rebeccasullivan__

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8 days ago

Teeaaamm❤️
Had a few days of rest, taking in a lovely end to September and chilling a little.
Yesterday felt the first proper chilly weather, it got me proper excited for jumper season! The little things! What are yours?

Alt text: Me, a white woman with brown hair, sitting in my wheelchair by a lake
#WheelchairAdventures #WheelchairUser #DisabilityAdvocate #Nature #RestIsProductive by @rebeccasullivan__

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9 days ago

So unbelievably grateful to have had a wonderful for Finding Yourself within Disability book launch ✨🩵

So so touched by everyone that came❤️ I was surprised by some of family Ireland who I couldn’t believe turned up !

Not only that, but my sister Mairead also got me a surprise cake made that looked like my book that was incredibly delicious. ✨🩵

I am so delighted and thankful for such a great night

Thank you to @fairshotcafe for being wonderful hosts. Thank you to @birdandblendtea @crumbsanddoilies and @bubblegumballoons for the wonderful contributions to the night ! Thank you to my wonderful photographer @amberrosephoto !

Dream come true ❤️

Video description: clips from my book launch at the Fair Shot Cafe

#BookLauch #DisabledSelfCare #DisabilityCommunity CelebrateYou MakeMemorie by @rebeccasullivan__

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16 days ago

One of the highlights of the summer has been this @myroamate mobility aid . As well as a motorised wheelchair it can also act as a walker. Easy to transport and gives me ultimate freedom to….wheel around!
When out and about it’s such a nice feeling to be able to get around myself, being able to wheel alongside the people I’m with. Especially when out in nature and just take in the surroundings as I go!
The walker feature also been hugely beneficial for me , being able to stretch my legs and muscles, which is definitely something I want to implement a regular routine with.

I really enjoy using @myroamate and it is such a brilliant mobility aid for ambulatory wheelchair users.

Fancy one yourself? Well, in case you missed it- I have for you a little discount code: REBECCASULLIVAN to get $300 off Roamate. This discount can also be accessed via the link in my bio 🩷

#gifted #AffiliateLink
#Collaboration

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1 Me , a white woman with brown hair, wearing a baby pink dress with daisies on it. I am sitting in a Roamate a pink wheelchair in power mode.
2 The roamate is in walker mode. I am standing behind it.
#AmbulatoryWheelchairUser#WheelchairAdventures by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago

Unbox @the_oddie weighted blanket with me💚
Really not getting the best sleep at the moment so I’m trying different things to get more Zzs
Have you tried weighted blankets? Let me know your thoughts

Video description: I’m a white women with brown hair, doing an unboxing of a sea green weighted blanket from The Oodie

#OodieSqaud #Unboxing #DisabilityAdvocacy #CPAwareness #ChattyVideo by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago

Just 1 more week Team till release day!! Eeekkk!!!!! 🩵✨✨🩵

And THEN…. Book launch time 💃🏻

📍 @fairshotcafe in Covent Garden
⏱️6:30 pm - 8:30 pm on Friday 25th of September

Thank you for sticking with me ❤️

Video description. A compilation of me a woman with brown hair, waving at the camera, in a boat, shaking pom-poms in my wheelchair, typing, walking with my walker, wheeling on a catwalk, doing my makeup, dancing at a concert , on top of The O2 after wheelchair climbing, in front of my laptop the day I signed my book contract, sitting in my wheelchair in the garden.

Voiceover: This is Rebecca .dopamine dresser, disability advocate and now published author Rebecca spent many many months writing a book on Disabled self-care.She is proudly disabled, but she wasn’t always. Disability was something she wildly thought was bad. However she is rewriting this script. Documenting how to start to break up with negative self chatter
And small ways to seek disabled joy
In the hope to help others too
This book that she poured hours into is now yours, well in a week
She also hopes you will help celebrate at launch night !!

#DisabledSelfCare #FindingYourselfWithinDisability #BookAnnouncement #DisabilityAdvocacy by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago

Still thinking about those fun Málaga days 🦋

Alt text. I am a white woman with brown hair, sitting in my wheelchair in a butterfly park, behind me is a waterfall

#WheelchairAdventures #SummerDays #DisabilityAdvocacy #MakeMemories by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago

You’re invited!!!
I am very excited to say that I am having book launch for Finding Yourself within Disability

📍 @fairshotcafe in Covent Garden
⏱️6:30 pm - 8:30 pm on Friday 25th of September

This will be an evening of celebration and fun and you’ll be able to get your book signed by yours truly 💁🏻‍♀️😂!

Plus there will be tea by @birdandblendtea and yummy cakes by @crumbsanddoilies

So…. Who’s coming??? Let me know via DMs

Seee you soon 🩵

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Book launch event poster for Rebecca Sullivan’s book Disability: Finding Yourself Within Disability – How To Look After Your Disabled Self. The event includes a book signing by the author and takes place Friday 25 September, 18:30–20:30, at Fair Shot Café in Covent Garden. Complimentary Bird & Blend tea and cake from Crumbs & Doilies are provided. The poster features an image of the book, with the message “Because disabled self care is more than cucumber slices.” Everyone is welcome.

#BookEvent #BookSigning #DisabledAuthor #DisabledSelfCare #BookAnnouncement by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago

Autumn excitement is here and this is what I am looking forward to…
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1 I am a white woman with brown hair, wearing a pink midi dress, sitting on steps of a canal boat .
Text come up
Things that I am looking forward to this autumn

2 I am sitting in my wheelchair with a wheelchair waterproof on, wearing a brown and pink teddy bear and a pink hat. Text reads
Crunchy leaves and autumn rolls- And alllll the layers
3 A scene of The Devil Wears Prada is on tv of Miranda Priestly at her desk , among low lighting . Text reads Low lighting and comfort films . The Devil Wears Prada, When Harry met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle are just a few cosy evenings wins
4 I am sitting on a bench and wearing a colourful cardigan of a landscape . Text reads Knitwear because Knitwear

#Autumn #ThingsImLookingForwardToThisAutumn #WheelchairAdventures #WheelchairUser #BabeWithAMobilityAid by @rebeccasullivan__

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a month ago