Tips & Tricks Part III

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As promised today we are covering BODY IMAGE. It’s tricky enough navigating a new body after a spinal cord injury but dealing with our own perceptions and expectations of what we think our body should be for us is a very complex and individual experience.
We often go through a grieving period, a time during our experience where we begin to grieve for the things we think we have lost and worry about the future. If we can’t love or accept our new body how can anyone else possibly accept it? These feelings are normal and unfortunately almost everyone will experience them.
Thankfully, we have rounded up some of the incredible Strides gang to give you a few tips on how they managed to beat the blues and find the confidence to love themselves again.
Our newly crowned Commonwealth Games Silver Medalist and current Paratriathlon World Champ Miss Emily Tapp took time out of her busy games schedule to stop by and share a bit of her own story with us as well.
We truly hope you can take a little something away from this as it takes some very brave people to share these stories with you, so massive props to our fam! 💜💜💜