Dating, Relationships, and Disability

Dating, Relationships, and Disability

Hosted by: Kathy O'Connell

We offer strategies, encouragement, and mindset tips on dating with a disability. We talk about how to navigate sexual ableism, focus on your power to attract, and develop happy and healthy relationships.

Episodes

222 - Being Single During the Holidays (Replay)

If you're listening around the time this publishes, it's the holiday season—and if you're single, loneliness may be hitting hard. You're not alone. I recently asked single people with disabilities about their holiday...
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221 - Be So Amazing You Cannot Be Ignored

Anil Gupta, known as the Love Doctor, has spoken in 18 countries across 4 continents, sharing practical relationship tools. He emphasizes that awareness is the foundation of everything in relationships and personal...
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220 - Five Essential Green Flags for Dating

Download My Relationship Vision to help you identify your green flags. Importance of Green Flags While we often focus on red flags in dating, green flags are equally vital—the positive indicators of respect,...
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219 - Feeling Beauty: Redefining Attraction After Loss

Kalindi Jordan is a sex and intimacy coach with 16 years of experience, specializing in helping people develop primary relationships with themselves before entering partnerships. Her work covers sexual intimacy,...
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218 - From Codependent to Confident: Building Boundaries in Dating

About Barb - Boundaries Coach Barb is a boundaries coach, speaker, podcaster, and author who hit a "codependent bottom" at age 52 in 2015. After decades of self-help and therapy, she entered 12-step recovery and...
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217 - Why I'm Ending Dating Made Easier

You know how sometimes life can begin nudging you in a certain direction. At first you say, “Ut uh, I am NOT going there. I’m not doing that.”  But life persists. There are signs, indicators that maybe life is...
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216 - Your Worth Is Unshakable: Dating, Disability, and Conscious Relationships

Conscious Love and Personal Transformation with Christian de la Huerta Christian de la Huerta, a personal transformation expert with over 30 years of experience, joins Kathy O'Connell to discuss relationships,...
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215 - The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Transforming Dating and Relationships

About Tiffany Yu Tiffany Yu is the author of "The Anti-Ableist Manifesto" and founder of Diversability, a community of over 80,000 people focused on disability leadership. She became disabled at age 9 in a car...
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214 - Dating While Neurospicy

Understanding Neurospicy Relationships Dr. Kristen Williamson, a licensed professional counselor with a doctorate in behavioral health management, shares her journey of being diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 39. She...
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213 - Sustaining Your Dating Confidence: The Mastery Phase

Take our Dating Confidence quiz here. Understanding Stage 5: The Mastery Phase If you scored mostly D's on our dating confidence assessment, you've mastered the fundamentals of confident dating with a disability....
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212 - Beyond Swiping: Dating Strategies That Works When Put Into Action

Upcoming Events 📅 ENROLLMENT CLOSING OCT 25 Dating Made Easier  will be stopping open enrollment on October 25th! After that, we'll only open enrollment at specific times during the year. đŸ”„Â DATING CHALLENGE: OCT 14-17...
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211 - Stage 3: From Confidence to Strategy - Your Dating Action Plan

Upcoming Events 📅 ENROLLMENT CLOSING OCT 25 Dating Made Easier  will be stopping open enrollment on October 25th! After that, we'll only open enrollment at specific times during the year. đŸ”„Â DATING CHALLENGE: OCT 14-17...
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