The power of my disability - Jaap van der Stel
the life story of an inspiring woman
KORTE INHOUD
Joy was declared 80% spastic and was doomed to be dependent on help twenty-four hours a day her entire life.
In the meantime, she runs her own company sitting in a wheelchair, gives seminars and coaches people who
want to learn to think differently.
She is married, has a wonderful daughter and has written her first book The Power of my Disability.
Her first years of life she spent in hospitals and finally she ended up
in the famous or rather ill famed Het Dorp in Arnhem (an institution for disabled people) where she only had
one goal: to get out of the institution.
Something that Joy describes in her book is how people in these institutions are often told what they are not able
to do and are definitely not taught what they might possibly be able to do.
The help disabled people receive makes her helpless.
Focusing on the impossibilities instead of focusing on the possibilities.
Joy van der Stel wanted to be different and get away from this oppressing situation, which she did in the end:
she lived on her own when sh...
In the meantime, she runs her own company sitting in a wheelchair, gives seminars and coaches people who
want to learn to think differently.
She is married, has a wonderful daughter and has written her first book The Power of my Disability.
Her first years of life she spent in hospitals and finally she ended up
in the famous or rather ill famed Het Dorp in Arnhem (an institution for disabled people) where she only had
one goal: to get out of the institution.
Something that Joy describes in her book is how people in these institutions are often told what they are not able
to do and are definitely not taught what they might possibly be able to do.
The help disabled people receive makes her helpless.
Focusing on the impossibilities instead of focusing on the possibilities.
Joy van der Stel wanted to be different and get away from this oppressing situation, which she did in the end:
she lived on her own when sh...
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2009Uitgever: SuccesboekenVertaler: K. Versluis-Probst314 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 224x149x24ISBN-10: 9079872091ISBN-13: 9789079872091Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Stel, Joy van der] [Pagina's: 307] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Succesboeken] [Jaar: 2009] [Titel: The Power of my Disability: The Life Story of an Inspiring Woman]
