Grace Spence Green
@gspencegreen
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Doctor with a passion for paediatrics, public health and disability. she/her. media: [email protected] You can preorder my book below :)
Joined March 2020
It was a pleasure to be interviewed for the Guardian on advocacy, ableism and radical acceptance. You can read it here:
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Her life changed instantly when she was crushed at a shopping centre. But through radical acceptance she gained friends, greater empathy and a passion for changing people’s perspectives
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Wonderful to be on this list thank you @doctor_oxford and have just bought The SafeKeep to read on my holiday!.
A pleasure to share some of my favourite recent reads in the @GuardianBooks - @RebeccaSolnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There, @gspencegreen’s To Exist as I am & Yael Van Der Wouden’s sublime The Safekeep 📚.
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RT @doctor_oxford: A pleasure to share some of my favourite recent reads in the @GuardianBooks - @RebeccaSolnit’s No Straight Road Takes Y….
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Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
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RT @howtoacademy: At the age of twenty-two, @gspencegreen’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital….
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RT @Waterstones: 'I woke up in a body that did not feel like my own, a body that others knew much more about'. On the blog, @gspencegreen s….
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RT @TRETalkRadio: On @MacKenzieSelina's Lifestyles at 14.00CET, Dr @JuradoAnaRosa - Gynaecologist and Sexologist, on the 15th European Meet….
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I did a little blog for waterstones!
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The author of To Exist As I Am writes about the moment that changed her life.
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RT @BBCWomansHour: 'I wouldn't take this injury back because of all it's given me'. Junior doctor @gspencegreen was walking through a shopp….
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RT @GMB: Dr Grace Spence Green's life changed forever in 2018 when a man jumped from the third storey of a shopping centre, crushing her to….
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RT @spinalinjuries: 💬"The most important thing for me was critically looking back and unpicking what I'd been told about disability over 22….
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Thrilled to be one Waterstones Junes Best Books List! Out on Thursday!.
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As we run headlong into the summer sunshine, check out our pick of the very best publishing this June.
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RT @doctor_oxford: Just finished this beautiful, powerful, indelible read. It chronicles @gspencegreen's journey from 22-year-old medical….
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Can't wait for this conversation with someone i admire very much @xandvt !!.
Really looking to this event. @gspencegreen’s book is an extraordinary story. Essential reading! . Book tickets below! 👇.
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RT @howtoacademy: At the age of twenty-two, @gspencegreen’s spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital….
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RT @annalandre: When this government says disabled people ought to work, we ask:. Where are the jobs?. The level-access commuter trains?. T….
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As usual, Rebekah Taussig always finds a way of speaking so eloquently on things I didn't realise I was feeling too but had no words to verbalise. Grateful for her voice here;.
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"Am I squandering the power of my voice when I speak about anything else?"
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RT @NainaK: Have so been looking forward to this book. Especially after your extraordinary interview on BBC Life Changing.
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It’s out on June 5th, but as a new author, pre-orders massively help with visibility so I'd be so grateful if you'd considering ordering ahead of publication!.
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Buy To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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I’m so grateful to the team at Wellcome and Profile for seeing the potential in this. This has been the best thing I’ve ever done, and I can’t wait for you to read it.
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Every thought, every interaction, every reflection on this journey I would chronicle on scrap paper, iPhone notes, emails to myself- and slowly, painstakingly, that has turned into a book, TO EXIST AS I AM.
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On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write. At first it was a way to anchor myself to the strange new reality I had found myself in, but as I wrote, as I learnt, I began to think this could be something bigger than just my diary.
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