Épisodes

  • Ignorance and Minimization __Societal common place

    Ignorance and Minimization __Societal common place
    Oct 30 2025
    49 min
  • Psychological Perspectives on Trauma, Disability,

    Psychological Perspectives on Trauma, Disability,
    Oct 30 2025
    38 min
  • There are several major frameworks for disability, each with different implications for policy, healthcare, and society:

    There are several major frameworks for disability, each with different implications for policy, healthcare, and society:
    Oct 17 2025
    2 min
  • Social Psychological Perspectives on Marginalization

    Social Psychological Perspectives on Marginalization
    Oct 17 2025
    5 min
  • From valleys to heights

    From valleys to heights
    Aug 27 2025
    • The speaker's journey began in tragic infancy and included a difficult childhood, turbulent teenage years, and destructive behaviors.
    • They nearly took their own life but found redemption through unexpected means, including discovering God online.
    • Their struggles and setbacks were part of a divine process of character building and transformation.
    • The speaker emphasizes that hope persists regardless of how far gone one feels, and that God's love extends to the broken and desolate.
    • They highlight the power of humility, scars, and pain as tools for growth and platforms for ministry.
    • The message encourages perseverance, faith, and searching for hope, asserting that breakthroughs are near.
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    3 min
  • We are all conditioned

    We are all conditioned
    Aug 18 2025
    - Our environments shape our perceptions and responses, creating patterns of adaptation.
    - Society influences both able-bodied and disabled individuals, often imposing responses that become ingrained.
    - Different environments foster distinct human responses, such as soldiers' conditioning or artists' sensitivity.
    - Infants are conditioned from birth to blend innate potential with cultural expectations.
    - Humanity's adaptive mechanisms are both strengths and limitations, risking reduction to circumstances.
    - Raising children involves a choice: conform or cultivate individuality.
    - Developing healthy stubbornness in children fosters agency and resistance to conditioning.
    - The journey to identity can be hindered by harsh experiences, leading to permanent reactive patterns.
    - True education promotes independent thinking and cultural engagement without loss of self.
    - Conditioning influences perceptions of disability, beauty, success, and potential.
    - Breaking these cycles requires conscious effort and questioning accepted norms.
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    2 min
  • invisible social barriers

    invisible social barriers
    Aug 18 2025
    - Disability is often most persistent due to societal attitudes and structures, not physical or mental challenges.
    - Invisible social barriers can be more obstructive than physical accessibility issues.
    - Society's response varies between visible and invisible disabilities, often leading to patronizing treatment of those with visible differences.
    - Despite progress in policy and awareness, fundamental attitudes and prejudices remain resistant to change.
    - The true barriers are attitudinal, rooted in stereotypes and assumptions, rather than physical obstacles.
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    2 min
  • human diversity

    human diversity
    Aug 18 2025
    - Disability is not abnormality but can cause a profound sense of alienation.
    - It is a dimension of human diversity, similar to race, ability, and gender.
    - People with disabilities have the same inherent normalcy and contribute unique skills and perspectives.
    - Acquiring a disability involves navigating complex psychological changes and societal responses.
    - For those who become disabled later in life, identity is layered, encompassing both pre- and post-disability experiences.
    - External societal reactions can significantly influence an individual's sense of self.
    - Chronic societal stressors can constrain mental resources, affecting perceptions of normalcy.
    - The main challenge is societal adaptation to diversity, not the disability itself.
    - Building inclusive communities requires recognizing and addressing these psychological and social dynamics.
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    2 min