Kate Nicholson is a civil rights rights attorney, an arts activist, and, recently, a writer and speaker. She served in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice for more than twenty years and is a nationally-recognized expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). And then it changed…Kate was thrust into her own lived experience of severe, chronic pain and disability, something as an ADA lawyer she was all too familiar with professionally but not personally. As a self-described “Type A”, Kate struggled with maintaining her professional identity, her passion for advocacy and change, along with her need to slow down and listen to her body and its new limitations.
During this episode Pam and Kate discuss how resilience is being re-imagined in light of the current global pandemic, why resilience is both individual and societal, and what Kate discovered as she began to explore visual art and meditation as a way to regain wholeness in her life.
Resources
What We Lose When We Undertreat Pain: TEDX Talk by Kate Nicholson
Tilt West (Kate is the President and founding member of this arts non-profit)
Speaking of Pain (Kate’s website and story)