You're listening to the Feel Good Effect.

Did you ever have a time when you felt like you didn't fit in?

Maybe it was recently.

Maybe it was your whole life.

That's what we're talking about today.

We're talking about reframing what it means to fit in

and finding your voice and your resilience. Let's make it happen.

Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness

on your terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about

achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you.

Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life and allows you to embrace the idea

that gentle is the new perfect.

I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that create

huge changes in your life.

Thus striving, more ease.

It's time to feel good.

Thank you. more ease, it's time to feel good. Well, hey, feel good, fam. I am so glad you're here for this conversation on reframing what it means to fit in and the power of resilience and reclaiming

your voice. Our guest today is Rebecca Tosig, who is a Kansas City writer and teacher,

who has her doctorate in creative nonfiction and disability studies.

She runs the Instagram platform Sitting Pretty,

where she crafts many memoirs to contribute nuance to the collective narratives being told about disability in our culture.

Her memoir of essays, which we are talking about today, Sitting Pretty,

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