How Disability Made Me a Better Parent — Jessica Slice
Update: 2025-09-03
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What makes someone fit to parent?
In this episode of Uncomfy, writer Jessica Slice shares her story of becoming disabled at 28, learning to let go of perfectionism, and eventually embracing motherhood in her own way. Jessica talks about the obstacles she and her husband faced while trying to become foster parents, how she adapted parenting to her body, and why disability doesn’t equal tragedy.
Check out more of Jessica’s work - https://www.jessicaslice.com/
Jessica’s latest book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World - https://www.jessicaslice.com/books
Subscribe to Uncomfy for more honest conversations every Wednesday.
Episode transcript - https://uncomfypodcastbyu.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-disability-made-me-better-parent.html
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Meet Jessica Slice
1:40 Becoming Disabled at 28
3:33 From Perfectionism to Parenthood
5:45 Finding Joy Within Limits
7:40 Being Better Prepared for Parenthood
9:36 Challenges with Becoming Foster Parents
12:04 Bringing Baby K Home
14:00 Parenting Adaptations
16:28 Rethinking Disability and Parenting
18:43 Closing Reflections
In this episode of Uncomfy, writer Jessica Slice shares her story of becoming disabled at 28, learning to let go of perfectionism, and eventually embracing motherhood in her own way. Jessica talks about the obstacles she and her husband faced while trying to become foster parents, how she adapted parenting to her body, and why disability doesn’t equal tragedy.
Check out more of Jessica’s work - https://www.jessicaslice.com/
Jessica’s latest book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World - https://www.jessicaslice.com/books
Subscribe to Uncomfy for more honest conversations every Wednesday.
Episode transcript - https://uncomfypodcastbyu.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-disability-made-me-better-parent.html
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Meet Jessica Slice
1:40 Becoming Disabled at 28
3:33 From Perfectionism to Parenthood
5:45 Finding Joy Within Limits
7:40 Being Better Prepared for Parenthood
9:36 Challenges with Becoming Foster Parents
12:04 Bringing Baby K Home
14:00 Parenting Adaptations
16:28 Rethinking Disability and Parenting
18:43 Closing Reflections
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