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"Unfiltered Resilience: Dawn Olson's Journey is a deeply personal and educational podcast that explores the intersection of disability rights, personal growth, and societal change.
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That's Not Your Fault: Naming Trauma with Karyn Harvey (opens the original)
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Today is a first for me. I have never interviewed anyone on this podcast before, and I will be honest with you, I was nervous. Now that it is done, I am really proud of myself. My guest is Karyn Harvey, a psychologist who has spent about 40 years working alongside people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. That is her resume. Who she is to me is a friend, a mentor, and the person who helped me put a name to what I had been carrying my whole life. This is part three of the series, a
What Happened to You — Part 2: A Light Left On (opens the original)
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Last week I told you the story — the school, the piece of gum, the dark room. This week I want to take you somewhere quieter. This is the part I don't usually say out loud. What it's actually like to carry this. How it came rushing back the first night I spent in a nursing home, decades later, until it felt like I was four years old again being left behind. How a presentation about Holocaust survivors made me realize I'm not alone, and I'm not crazy for feeling the way I feel. And how, for most
What Happened to You — Part 1 (opens the original)
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This is a hard one for me to share, and I want to be honest about that upfront. I was born with cerebral palsy in 1959. When I was four years old, my parents were told the best place for me was a school a hundred and eighty miles from home — so that's where they left me. Back then, that's what parents of disabled children were encouraged to do. So this is my story, but it isn't only mine. In this episode I tell you about a piece of gum my mother once gave me, what happened when I dropped it, and
Gracie and Me (opens the original)
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I didn't know much about service animals going into this one. Not the cost, not the training, not what it actually takes for someone to get one. I'll be honest about that upfront. I also want to tell you about a moment I'm not proud of — passing a woman in a grocery store with a small dog in her cart, hearing her say it was her service animal, and quietly wondering why. I had to catch myself. I only see what's on the outside. I don't know what someone else is carrying. That's what got me thinkin
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