Episode 255: When Greater Purpose Comes With a Wheelchair With Sandie Roberts

This week’s guest is Sandie Roberts, a Disability Advocate and model. After becoming suddenly disabled in 2019 and struggling to come to terms as her life was turned upside down, Sandie found joy through acceptance and recognizing that disability is not a bad word..

Sandy has spoken on television and radio, as a body confidence advocate and expert, a number of times. She has modeled for multiple household names on social media, television and in London Fashion Week.

In this episode, Sandy and I talked about:

• The health challenges she experienced starting at a young age.
• How she dealt with the news that she will be paralyzed for the rest of her life.
• How her perception of what it means to live in a wheelchair has evolved. 
• How she’s shifting perspectives about the kind of transformation a disability can bring to one’s life.

When Sandy became a full time wheelchair user at the age of 48, it was obviously a major turning point in her life, but as she says, it was not for the worse - it was for the better!  People only see the negative aspects of disability and not the ways it can transform your life for the better. 

Sandy hopes to inspire listeners that adversity can be seen as the driving force for evolution rather than something that has to be merely "overcome". For her, being gifted with the force of life comes with a responsibility to use her difficulties to fuel personal growth, for the purpose of helping those whose lives she is lucky enough to touch.

To learn more about Sandy and her work, you can go to:

Website: www.searchforsilverlinings.co.uk 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_searchforsilverlinings/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SearchForSilverLinings 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SandyRoberts

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