
Secret Lives of the Disabled
Performance Artist Sally Greenhouse survived a catastrophic car accident that left her with a broken neck and spinal cord injury. "Secret Lives of the Disabled" is a podcast that has as its focus individuals who become disabled in America due to accidents, chronic illnesses and debilitating pain often plunging them into poverty, housing insecurity and extreme isolation while rendering them as expendable Americans. This podcast features guests from every profession addressing the consequences faced by formerly able bodied people, in mutually interactive conversations with Greenhouse, that include her chronicle of how she survives physical disability.
“Razor sharp observations.” - Bay Windows
“Mordantly funny…Swiftian humor.” - The New York Times
“Thinking person's performance artist…hilarious & harrowing.” - The Boston Globe
"Secret Lives of the Disabled" is commercial free, funded by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
www.SecretLivesoftheDisabled.com
Episodes
"Avalanche of Adversity : Can Resilience Be Cultivated?” featuring George Bonnano, PhD Researcher/Author; The End of Trauma

Dancing Disability : Inhabiting Every Body Beautifully with Heidi Latsky, Dancer/Choreographer/Artistic Director

"Just the Facts Ma’am” featuring Dan Ariely, PhD

Canaries in a Coal Mine: "Wake up and smell the chemicals!" featuring Dr. Liza Grandia

Envisioning "The Country of the Blind" with Andrew Leland, Professional Blindness Deconstructor & Pulitzer Prize Finalist

“Inspiration Porn: Are We Heroic or Tragic?” A Lively Rant with Disability Activist Lawrence Carter-Long

My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma: Was I a Warlord in My Past Life? Robert Thurman, Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Columbia University; Co-Founder of Tibet House, NYC

"Chaos or Karma : Does everything happen for a reason?" with Ganden Thurman, Executive Director of Tibet House

Deconstructing Covid Denialism with Julia Doubleday & Miles Griffis

Emerging From a Dark Night of the Soul featuring James Hollis, PhD, Jungian Analyst

"At the Center of All Beauty" : Loneliness or Solitude? featuring author Fenton Johnson

Covid Collision Course: Not Dead Yet? - Julia Doubleday {Investigative Journalist/Essayist}

“You Say Inclusive…..We Say Non-Exclusive” Rabbi Benjamin Weiner

Disability Policy Prodigy: Colin Killick

High Cost of Housing: “Show Me the Way to Go Home” featuring Peter Hepburn, Associate Director of the Eviction Lab, Princeton University

Such Grace: Andre Dubus ll featuring Andrea Ivanov-Craig, PhD and Rev. Jep Streit

Michael Blumenthal: A Poet in Pain (who loves primates)

ZEN & the Dharma of Disability: "Don't just do something. Sit there!"

Jason Kander: Invisible Storm : A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics & PTSD
