Category: Life Without Limits

  • Wheelchair-Accessible Hot Air Ballooning: A Practical Guide

    Wheelchair-Accessible Hot Air Ballooning: A Practical Guide

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    Four balloon operators with adapted provision, plus the questions that matter about wheelchairs, transfers, landing and the journey back.

  • Caron McLuckie and B.adaptive: Designing Clothes Around the Person Wearing Them

    Caron McLuckie and B.adaptive: Designing Clothes Around the Person Wearing Them

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    B.adaptive began with a practical problem in Emile McLuckie’s wardrobe. Caron McLuckie shares the family story behind the brand and why fashion still needs to think more carefully about the person wearing the clothes.

  • Presence is part of the work

    Presence is part of the work

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    A quiet Monday morning made me question why rest can still feel like guilt, and whether being more present might be part of doing thoughtful, meaningful work well.

  • Letters from Luiz: The stories we don’t see from the outside

    Letters from Luiz: The stories we don’t see from the outside

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    An unplanned speech, a little toy till that still rang, and questions that followed me from the road to the hotel room. A personal letter about the stories we don’t see.

  • Legend and Legacy: Kam Mirza on the Details That Shape a Journey

    Legend and Legacy: Kam Mirza on the Details That Shape a Journey

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    From one car and a family name to a growing chauffeur business, Kam Mirza shares the story behind Legend Executive Chauffeurs and why thoughtful service begins long before a passenger steps inside the vehicle.

  • The luxury of knowing what you’re getting

    The luxury of knowing what you’re getting

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    From art’otel Battersea to a Surrey vineyard, Annabelle Moult shares four very different UK hotel stays and the details that shaped freedom, comfort and the experience as a whole.

  • Alyce King: Writing the Book She Needed After Becoming a Wheelchair User

    Alyce King: Writing the Book She Needed After Becoming a Wheelchair User

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    When Alyce King became a full-time wheelchair user almost overnight, the guidance around her stopped where real life began. Through Becoming A Wheelchair User: Knowing What I Know Now, she has turned the practical knowledge, emotional truth and realistic hope she needed into something the next person can hold onto.…

  • Kelly Phillips: The Menopause Conversation Workplaces Can’t Afford to Ignore

    Kelly Phillips: The Menopause Conversation Workplaces Can’t Afford to Ignore

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    Perimenopause changed the way Kelly Phillips understood her own body. Now, through Strong Womenopause, she’s helping women, workplaces and the wider wellbeing industry move beyond awkward awareness and into practical support. There are some conversations the workplace can only ignore for so long. Not because they’re new. Because they’ve always…

  • Amelia Peckham Raised the Standard for Mobility Aids. The Industry Should Be Paying Attention.

    Amelia Peckham Raised the Standard for Mobility Aids. The Industry Should Be Paying Attention.

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    After a spinal injury at 19, Amelia Peckham was given crutches that hurt, clicked and made her feel smaller, at the very moment she needed support. Together with her mother Clare, she built Cool Crutches: a mobility aid brand changing how support, confidence and self-expression can feel. There are some…

  • Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

    Adaptive Skiing as a Wheelchair User | Luxury Ski Resorts That Get It Right

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    The mountain does not care that you are in a wheelchair. The snow is the snow. The slope is the slope. The feeling of moving down a mountain at speed, the cold air and the light and the particular silence of a ski run in the early morning before the…