Christopher Reeve Fdn. Blog

These blog posts were first published on the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. The original posts can be found here.

Time to Reboot

It’s that time of year. Time to leave behind the past and embark on a bright new future, and it can’t come too soon. But it’s worth...

Can We Live Without Fear?

Fear is the great inhibitor. Christopher Reeve, in one of his last speeches, titled “Living Without Fear,” wrote: “For so many of us, the...

Texas’ Gov. Abbott: A Disability Advocate’s Worst Nightmare

The best-known wheelchair user in the nation, Governor Greg Abbott, seems intent upon attacking the civil rights of people with...

Space Travel for Gimps?

The word is space flight for people with disabilities may now be a distinct possibility. A dozen disabled “astronauts” recently...

Driving Away Depression

Depression can ruin our plans — no, not feeling blue or down — I’m talking about gut-level clinical depression, something I have had to...

The Power of Images

I have written about the lack of awareness surrounding spinal cord injury (see earlier September blog). The root of that ignorance has...

Spinal Cord Injury Awareness: Will We Ever Get There?

As most of you know, September has been designated Spinal Cord Injury Awareness month. When I was injured in 1965 at the age of 20, I had...

Take Care to Take Care

One of our biggest obstacles to achieving our goals can be super-charged ambition. I’m talking about the kind of ambition that gets you...

A World of New Possibilities

When I left my small town home in California after high school, I knew one thing for certain that I wanted to do — graduate from UCLA....

Inside Post-Traumatic Growth

PTG — “Positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis or traumatic event” —Tedeschi and Calhoun A great...

Branded or Labeled?

In this age of image consciousness and branding, it is all too easy to become culturally obsessed with how we are seen more than who we...

Why I Write

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou In my previous blog, I wrote about the need for...

Continual Adaptation, Continual Growth

In my first blog, I shared my belief that adapting to paralysis is a continual process. I’ve been doing just that — and not always...

Chris Reeve’s Living Room

Welcome! Although this is my first blog for the Reeve Foundation, I’ve been a wheelchair user for over 55 years, paralyzed from the waist...