Friday, March 29, 2024

Tag: Inspiration

Miss Wheelchair World beauty pageant breaks down barriers for disabled women

https://youtu.be/j2xWXK5bL_E A Polish organization had held the first international edition of a beauty pageant for women in wheelchairs in an effort to change people's perceptions...

Two Adventurers to Swap Wheelchairs for Parachutes

'Skydiving is next on my list' Tonio Mercieca and Christine Borg will be swapping their wheelchairs for a parachute later this month as they...

Quadriplegic author: ‘I will be out of this chair one day’

The story he wanted to tell was several decades in the making, so it’s easy to see why David Rippy took two-and-a-half years to...

A phone call helped inspire Will to seize the high ground

SINCE a life-changing accident five years ago, wheelchair user Will Clark, from Grasmere, has become a charity volunteer, taken up sailing and ski-karting and...

Iowa Boy’s Inspirational Showing Draws A Standing Ovation At The National Junior Angus Show

Alec Gotto was just a few weeks old when he was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a syndrome that causes spine inflamation and makes movement...

Sam Schmidt hopes foundation leaves ultimate legacy

When Sam Schmidt began to prepare his remarks for his Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday, he struggled. The race car...

Kindness, courage help quadriplegic two years after devastating accident

Todd Duitsman has made extraordinary progress since he suffered spinal-cord injuries while body surfing at Big Beach on Maui in 2014. And with unfailing...

Love – and a Little Help from New Friends – Keeps School Sweethearts’ Wedding...

Anna Claire Stokes had a wedding to coordinate. Thanks to her new Shepherd Center family, no spinal cord injury was going to derail her...
Steph Aiello

After Car Crash, This Quadriplegic Beauty Enthusiast Found Renewed Purpose In Vlogging

Rarely are the phrases ‘beauty tutorial’ and ‘inspirational tour de force’ used in the same sentence, though the vlogger Steph Aiello may be a...

#ThisIsHowI Show What’s Possible!

The incredible 2+ months of #ThisIsHowI photos and videos has shown us that this is what AbleThrive is all about. So rather than end...