Welcome to the Embracing a Disabled Lifestyle Podcast. This is our first episode, so bear with us as we get the hang of doing these shows every week.
This is James and Jessica Pruitt, the creators of the Disabled Lifestyle. We wanted to share our story, and help other families like ours find a balanced life’s while raising a disabled child.
I am a blogger, podcaster, and online business consultant. Over the last 10 years, I have helped people through my personal blog and online media podcast to live a balanced life, and improve the life they are living.
All that was challenged when we found out that our daughter was going to be disabled.
Our daughter Emily was born in 2013 with Semi-Lobar Holoprosencephaly, which is a rare brain malformation affecting the frontal lobe of her brain.
Over the last four years, we have struggled with a lot of life’s challenges, and work hard to keep a balanced life. it’s not always easy, and sometimes we fall down.
However, as we have taken this journey, we have found many families who are struggling with balancing life, and getting everything that they need to live the life that they want.
As I looked around the web for a resource I could use, and one I could share with other families, I couldn’t really find one to help with this aspect of raising a disabled child. So, after a lot of discussion, we decided to create one ourselves.
So, in today’s episode, we will cover:

* Who we are, and our background prior to the disabled life slapped us in the face
* The emotional impact that finding out Emily would be disabled had on us
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* The 5 Areas of life that you need to balance to truly thrive while living the disabled lifestyle
* How we handled telling the family about what was coming, and why we did it the way we did.

As we both said in the podcast, we are not medical professionals. However, we had to learn a lot along the way, and we want to share our experiences on this journey with you.
I hope you join us on the journey to living the disabled lifestyle. Make sure you sign up below for my 7 part video course on Finding Balance While Raising a Disabled Child, and you will get the latest episodes every week in your inbox. We will post every Friday at 9:00 am, to get the latest Disabled Lifestyle Podcast