Dating, Relationships, and Disability
oleh Kathy O'Connell
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266 - Real Photos, Real Boundaries: Dating Confidently at Any Size
266 - Real Photos, Real Boundaries: Dating Confidently at Any Size
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We offer strategies, encouragement, and mindset tips on dating with a disability. We talk about how to navigate sexual ableism, focus on your power to attract, and develop happy and healthy relationships.
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- 266 - Real Photos, Real Boundaries: Dating Confidently at Any Size · 29 mntWeight concerns are common and tend to grow with age, especially for women going through hormonal changes. For people with disabilities, weight is often shaped by things outside…
- 265 - The Profile as a Filter: Disclosing Disability to Attract the Right People · 23 mntWhen to Disclose There's no single right answer, so do what feels comfortable. Kathy's disability is visible, so she recommends naming it in the profile. That filters out people…
- 264 - What Relationship Looks Like Four Years In · 48 mntAs part of working on my upcoming book about sexual ableism and dating with a disability, I interview Marco and his partner Dana as a follow up to my interview in episode 77…
- 263 - Trauma-Informed Dating: Healing, Red Flags, and Reclaiming Desire · 44 mntTrauma-Informed Dating for People with Disabilities This week Kathy takes on a heavier topic: trauma-informed care, and how trauma shows up in dating for people with…
- 262 - Roommates, Weddings, and Everything Between: The Friendship Series with Camille · 47 mntIn this episode of Kathy O'Connell's Friendship Series, Kathy talks with Camille, a close friend of nearly four decades, about their friendship and the role disability has played…
- 261 - Your Playbook for Dating is Here · 26 mntThe Playbook Is Here The Five Stages of Dating Success Playbook launched today. Today's episode covers the two stages we hadn't unpacked yet: active dating and mastery — the…
- 260 - From Confidence to Strategy: Building Your Dating Toolkit · 30 mntInternal self-worth work and external dating skill are different muscles. Believing you deserve a good relationship doesn't automatically teach you how to handle logistics or…
- 259 - Why Dating Doesn't Have to Feel So Hard · 27 mntDating Confidence Is a Skill, Not a Trait Dating and relationship success is skill-based — not a personality trait, not luck. It's a set of capacities (self-awareness…
- 258 - The Real Work of Dating with a Disability · 1 jam 4 mntDating requires skills — and disability adds complexity. But disability services are built around health, safety, and independence, not romantic fulfillment. Sexuality remains…
- 257 - Relationships Decoded: Teaching Consent, Connection, and Self-Advocacy · 39 mntWe're talking with researcher Dr. Kathryn Pedgrift, focused on relationship and sexuality education for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The…
- 256 - The Missing Piece in Dating: What Others See That You Don't · 41 mntAllison, founder of Innervue (yourinnervue.com), started as a psychotherapist before moving into industrial-organizational psychology, where she's consulted for nearly three…
- 255 - The 1% Shift: Rewiring Connection, Shame, and Self-Love with Mike Elliott · 54 mntMike Elliott is a relationship expert, men's coach, and founder of The Initiated Man. Though Mike doesn't have a disability, Kathy invited him to apply his expertise on intimacy…
- 254 - Stop Trying Every Tactic: The Dating Framework Built for You · 29 mntDating With a Disability: Why Generic Advice Doesn't Work We break down the Five Stages of Dating Success framework, built specifically for people dating with a disability…
- 253 - Friendship Series: From Coworkers to Chosen Family · 55 mntContinuing our Friendship Series, I chat with Karen Hoffman and Julie Baum, a married couple with decades of experience in human services. The episode focuses on friendship…
- 252 - Pride, Not Pity: Dating with Disability Pride · 30 mntIt's Disability Pride Month, and while this topic has been covered previously, this episode dives into how pride shows up specifically in dating. Reframing Common Comments Ways…
- 251 - "Permission to Feel Pleasure": Sexuality, Disability & Desire · 38 mntVanessa Cushing, an AASECT-certified sex therapist, talks about sexuality, disability, and dating. Healthy Sexuality Basics Vanessa defines healthy sexuality as centered on…
- 250 Milestone - Confidence, Connection, and Confronting Sexual Ableism · 40 mntEpisode 250: Celebrating 250 Episodes of Dating, Relationships, and Disability Marking episode 250 with a look back at why this show exists and what it's covered since October…
- 249 - Friendship Series: Everybody Has a Thing · 47 mntThe Friendship series has kicked off to examine what is similar and different when a disability is present - and how friendship development is a lot like dating - they both…
- 248 - Six Actions to Take When You're Actively Dating · 35 mntStage 4 (Active Dating) of her "5 Stages to Dating Success" framework. It's a tactical, mini-workshop style episode pulling content from her curriculum aimed at professionals in…
- 247 - I Need Your Help · 13 mntKathy O'Connell shares that she's working on a new book about dating and relationships with a disability — a follow-up to her earlier book Firewalk: Embracing Different…
