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Hello lovebirds, and welcome to LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES; the podcast for disabled folks and their loved ones.

I am your host, Claudia Forsberg. Ballarat based journalist and hopeless romantic.

To recap, the first two episodes so far, have been dedicated to two types of heartbreak - friendship and romantic. In hindsight, this may seem unintentionally pessimistic of me, but I promise you there are some positive messages hidden in there. So before you continue, if you haven't already, go back and listen to those.

This week I'm going to be switching gears a little bit. The topic I wanted to discuss this week is perhaps a concept that not many of you will be familiar with yet, at least not those of our loved ones without a disability. I'm talking of course about the social model of disability.

Now, the reason I think this is important and relevant in the context of love and relationships, is this will serve as a useful frame of reference for disability and the definitions of disability we understand today.

And by understanding these definitions, we can better support and love our loved ones, with disability… (click here to view full transcript)

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Hello lovebirds, and welcome to LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES; the podcast for disabled folks and their loved ones.

I am your host, Claudia Forsberg. Ballarat-based journalist and hopeless romantic.

Happy Friday everyone and for those of you who got to celebrate Valentine's Day last week with that special someone, I hope you had a lovely time.

And if you didn't have a Valentine this year, like me, I hope you got to treat yourself to some self-love. Maybe put on a face mask, chuck on your fave rom-com and devoured half a tub or more of ice cream.

Now speaking of not having a valentine this year, today I'm going to be talking about my most recent heartbreak - well actually it was my first heartbreak - which I experienced middle of last year. More specifically I'm going to outline the five most important lessons I learned from this experience, in hopes that this will help you or someone you care about who is also going through their own heartbreak.

So let's jump right in… (click here to view full transcript)

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Hello lovebirds, and welcome to LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES; the podcast for disabled folks and their loved ones.

I am your host, Claudia Forsberg. Ballarat-based journalist and hopeless romantic.

I'm so excited to be finally sitting down and recording this for you. I've had the idea for this podcast for over a year now. But of course, life happened. Between my day job, juggling health and even my first relationship, last year was a lot. Now things have calmed down a little and we were entering a new year, I finally thought, you know what? It's time. No excuses, I'm diving right in.

The first topic I want to cover is of course very close to my heart. Perhaps you, dear listener can relate as well, especially during a time of big changes and new beginnings. I'm talking about what I like to call the seasons of friendships... (click here to view full transcript)

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Hello lovebirds, and welcome to LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES; the podcast for disabled folks and their loved ones.

I am your host, Claudia Forsberg. Ballarat based journalist and hopeless romantic.

As a disabled person in a wheelchair, I too LOVE, love. I love being in love, showing love and of course I love talking about love.

Love, whatever that looks like for you... friendships, family relationships and of course romantic relationships can be hard enough and that's without having a disability on top of it.

My goal with this podcast is to shed some light on some of the trials and tribulations we face as disabled folks when engaging in all sorts of relationships.

Whether you are disabled yourself or love somebody with a disability, or you're thinking about pursing a relationship with a disabled person - I see you. I want to debunk myths, build confidence and ultimately spread the love.

Join me every Friday for LOVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES wherever you get your podcasts.

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