4 Tips for Building Self-Confidence After Hearing Loss
Have you lost confidence since your hearing loss?
When I lost the hearing in my left ear in 2016, I lost a lot of confidence. At the time, I was focused on the practical aspects of coping with my hearing loss and learning to live life without full sound, to pay much attention to any struggles with self-confidence. My focus was on understanding the best place to sit in a restaurant to have the best possibility of hearing the conversation, trying hearing technology and figuring out how to tell people about my hearing loss. My lost confidence went undetected for some time.
Deaf Awareness Week: 5 Surprising Facts About Life With Single-Sided Deafness
This week is Deaf Awareness Week!
Deaf Awareness Week is an opportunity to highlight how hearing loss affects daily life and to share ways others can offer meaningful support. Being deaf brings unique challenges—practical, emotional, and social—that not everyone will experience or fully understand.
This Deaf Awareness Week, I’m bringing attention to Single-Sided Deafness (SSD), a type of unilateral hearing loss, where a person has no or limited access to sound in one ear.
How to build self-confidence after hearing loss
Have you lost confidence since your hearing loss?
When I lost the hearing in my left ear in 2016, I lost a lot of confidence. At the time, I was focused on the practical aspects of coping with my hearing loss and learning to live life without full sound, to pay much attention to any struggles with self-confidence. My focus was on understanding the best place to sit in a restaurant to have the best possibility of hearing the conversation, trying hearing technology and figuring out how to tell people about my hearing loss. My lost confidence went undetected for some time.
4 Steps to Becoming Your Own Advocate
When you become your own advocate, you empower yourself to have more control over your life and relationships, leading to a better sense of self, community and wellbeing.