Amy Marturana Winderl

2 weeks ago | self.com | Amy Marturana Winderl |Erica Sloan

A lost contact in your eye can be supremely unsettling, if not panic-inducing. There’s the fear that you won’t be able to find it and safely pluck it out…which can spiral all too quickly into worries about never being able to see again. Not to mention the ridiculously irritating and often painful sensation an errant contact can bring, thanks to the “incredible number of nerve endings on the surface of our eyes,” Ashley Brisette, MD, a New York-based ophthalmologist, tells SELF.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Marturana Winderl |Erica Sloan

Collage: Self; Source image: Jose Luis Pelaez/Getty ImagesA lost contact in your eye can be supremely unsettling, if not panic-inducing. There’s the fear that you won’t be able to find it and safely pluck it out…which can spiral all too quickly into worries about never being able to see again.

2 weeks ago | self.com | Amy Marturana Winderl

When Jessy Yates started at the Yale School of Drama in 2018, she was the first wheelchair-using student in the program’s history. “I knew that I was going to be teaching the faculty how to teach me,” the 31-year-old actor tells SELF. “The school was really good about acknowledging that there was a lot they didn't know and there was a lot that they were trying to learn,” she adds.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Amy Marturana Winderl

When Jessy Yates started at the Yale School of Drama in 2018, she was the first wheelchair-using student in the program’s history. “I knew that I was going to be teaching the faculty how to teach me,” the 31-year-old actor tells SELF. “The school was really good about acknowledging that there was a lot they didn’t know and there was a lot that they were trying to learn,” she adds.

1 month ago | healthcentral.com | Amy Marturana Winderl

Fitness has always been an integral part of personal trainer Craig Bedford‘s life. The gym was a place where he went to work hard and come away feeling his best. Which is why he was surprised when he woke up one morning after an evening training session almost 10 years ago and couldn’t get out of bed. “My mom had to come and yank my hand so I could sit up,” Bedford recalls. She had to help him get dressed, too—a foreign need for someone who was used to being physically fit and capable.