Category: Disabilities

  • Transition to a New Year

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    As we approach the holiday season, we each view the holidays from our perspective of past experiences. For many, the holidays are a joyous and eagerly anticipated time. For others who have experienced loss or trauma, the holidays can be an endurance obstacle course.  We generally meet after the holidays with the attitude that the…

  • Navigating Risk in Life Transitions

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    Risk is inherent in almost every life transition. Our fears and self-doubt contribute to the chaos that is roiling within us as we enter a new branch of our life pathway. I experienced the specters of doubt as I entered college. Was I smart enough? Disciplined enough? Persistent enough? When I entered pilot training, was…

  • Assistance for Living with a Disability

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    Incurring a disability creates a wide range of adjustments that must be resolved in order to maintain physical, mental, and emotional equilibrium. There are resources that will provide support for most of life’s necessities. Living with a disability is an ongoing learning experience. Exploring the services that are available will be a very important aspect…

  • Learning to Live with a Disability

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    When a disability occurs, we have to borrow a phrase from our friends, the U.S. Marines: “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.”  In addition, we must add the word “Accept” to the beginning of their saying. We must accept, improvise, adapt, and overcome. The first action that we must take, acceptance, is a mental process that we…

  • How to Thrive and Be Wheelchair/Home Bound

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    When both of my knees stopped supporting me and I fell, I knew instantly that my life had changed. I am a large retired man in my late 70s. I had struggled with a walker for two years and, previously, a cane for more than a decade. As I aged, my knees became less reliable…

  • Pathway to Clarity

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    Most of us, at points in our lives, fight mental chaos. In my life, as is the case with most of us, I have experienced many life transitions. My challenges were initiated by a variety of life transitions. Career choice, marital partner, becoming a father, loss of my chosen profession, reorientation toward a new career,…

  • Hello World!

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    SafeHarborPathways.com Blog welcomes you to a safe and quiet environment that will allow you to explore the thoughts and emotions that accompany the many transitions that will be present as you navigate life. We each have unique experiences that define the pathways of our lives. These experiences occur each day, They can be small incidents,…