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Secret Lives of the Disabled

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Secret Lives of the Disabled is a arts podcast hosted by Sally Greenhouse. It has 21 episodes, with the latest published November 2025.

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.Se

arts ·en-us ·21 episodes

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Sally Greenhouse: "Faraway Island" [A Nantucket Allegory About Becoming Physically Disabled] with Post-Performance Q & A

2

"Avalanche of Adversity: Can Resilience Be Cultivated?” featuring George Bonnano, PhD Researcher/Author; The End of Trauma

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

"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

9

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

10

"Deconstructing Covid Denialism" with Julia Doubleday & Miles Griffis

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

Disability Policy Prodigy: Colin Killick

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

"Such Kindness" with Andre Dubus lll

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