Balance Awareness Week 2023 - Triggering Environments
This Balance Awareness Week, I’m raising awareness of environments that people with vestibular (balance) disorders may find triggering. I hope that with more awareness, more people will have some understanding and empathy toward loved ones and colleagues who have a balance disorder.
Mental Health Awareness Week: Let’s Talk About Hearing Loss Grief
When I suddenly lost the hearing in my left ear, I was so focused on the practical impact of my hearing loss and learning to live with single-sided deafness that I barely stopped to acknowledge my feelings.
Several months after my sudden hearing loss, I was given some advice from a stranger, who I had briefly connected with online. They told me that, as with any other loss in life, I would need to grieve my lost sound with the attention it deserved. This advice proved crucial in helping me address the emotional aspects of my new situation and immediately made it feel acceptable for me to begin the grieving process.
Deaf Awareness Week 2023: 5 Surprising Facts About Life With Single-Sided Deafness
Deaf Awareness Week 2023
This week is Deaf Awareness Week!
The theme this year is Deaf Inclusion, which highlights how hearing loss impacts daily life and how others can help support deaf people.
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.
This subject is close to my heart as I have lived with SSD since my sudden hearing loss in 2016. Here I share some of the challenges that come with SSD, ways you can help support people with SSD, and how to advocate for yourself if you have SSD.