So at age 28, Jessica Slice was living what looked like a dream life, co-owner of a successful

real estate firm traveling the world, super fit, utterly alive and in charge of life.

And then in a moment, actually a single day in Greece, something went wrong.

And her life was forever changed.

Jessica was plunged into the world of illness, disability, medical

gaslighting, and eventually a complete transformation in how she viewed herself and what makes

a life worth living. It would take years, but what she'd eventually come to learn was that

different didn't by default mean worse. In fact, it could

lead to something to a life that was filled with equal amounts of grace and harmony with new

challenges that to this day have never left her. Jessica is now a writer and disability advocate

whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time Magazine, other major publications,

her new memoir, unfit parent, a disabled mother challenges an inaccessible world,

explores her journey from driven overachiever to someone who has found unexpected freedom

through accepting her disabilities and limitations.

In this conversation, we explore how Jessica moved from feeling

grief, even shame about her conditions, to fear self-advocacy, and why including diverse

bodies and minds makes every institution, every part of life, every relationship better,

perhaps more powerfully, she shares how embracing her limitations paradoxically

led to a deeper, richer experience of life than constant striving ever did. So excited to share

this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

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