The Intersection of Nutrition, Disability, and Inclusion with Darci Steiner - Episode 69

Inclusion and Disability Advocacy from a Parent's Perspective: The Inclusive Dad

In this episode of The Inclusive Dad podcast, host AAron welcomes Darci Steiner, a nutritionist, author, and disability advocate, who shares her powerful journey living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Darci discusses the challenges of accessibility, the importance of awareness in inclusion, and how her faith and nutrition played pivotal roles in her healing journey. She emphasizes the need for proactive inclusion and highlights how simple changes can create more accessible spaces. Darci also shares insights into her books, her passion for helping others through holistic nutrition, and the profound gifts she discovered through her disability.

Key Takeaways:

Proactive Inclusion - Inclusion requires intentional effort—ask questions and anticipate accessibility needs.

Awareness Matters - Small acts of awareness can significantly improve experiences for people with disabilities.

Nutrition as Healing - Holistic nutrition played a critical role in Darci’s rare CRPS remission and ongoing health.

The Power of Perspective - Disability offers unique insights into gratitude, resilience, and life’s deeper meaning.

Faith Through Struggles - Darci’s faith journey deepened as she grappled with suffering, leading to spiritual growth.

Darci’s definition of inclusion:

Inclusion is having an awareness that no matter what you do, you are thinking about not only able-bodied people, but disabled people and how you can include them, and not exclude them.

Darci’s Bio:

Darci J. Steiner has served in the ministry as a teen and women’s ministry leader, as well as assisted with church plants in Denver and Los Angeles. In 2001, Darci nearly lost her life after a debilitating fall. During her recovery, she earned her Master of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition and implemented natural remedies into her diet that helped save her life.

When Darci became disabled a second time after a foot injury in 2018, she turned her focus toward ministry again by writing her debut book, Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering and its companion, Study Guide for Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering.

Darci and her husband have two adult daughters and one baby granddaughter. They live in the Denver area.

Connect with Darci:

Website: https://www.darcijsteiner.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darcijsteiner

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darcijsteiner.writer/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcijsteiner/

Buy Her Book: https://amzn.to/41q1aL1

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