Victoria Mavis
If Victoria Mavis can overcome a tragic lifetime of a walking disability, so can you overcome your biggest obstacles!

Victoria Mavis website gives the very best in advocacy for those with disabilities and those without! Her mission is to help others overcome what stands in their way to success. Everything she does or presents in this site supports that goal.

Here you can get a copy of her Book, Every Scar Tells a Story (available through Amazon). If you’re not familiar with it, read our free preview. There are download tools for disability advocates in various areas. We also include disability awareness documents (i.e., handicap parking tickets or a book study guide) to help others advocate.

Victoria has included links for free listening/viewing of her videos and audio recordings, and reading her blog posts. Please reach out if you want to know more! You’ll quickly find she’s a good listener and gives insights from her experience, while maintaining a ‘non-judgement zone’.

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Why is Victoria Mavis an Author and Disability Advocate?

Victoria didn’t plan to be an Author, but she had a story to tell. Every Scar Tells a Story is based on her life-inspired journey across thousands of miles and over the past five (5) decades. Now with her story published, she is challenged to daily model the behavior of a Disability Advocate.

For her, it’s working with folks in need as she shares her ‘hands up’ outlook on life. It often starts with a simple conversation with a friend or acquaintance at the coffee shop. Or it may be a zoom meeting with teachers and students with disabilities to share how she overcame bullying and other obstacles in school.

Advocacy in Victoria’s terms

Victoria’s role as an advocate means showing others the way to self-sufficiency. This doesn’t mean a person has to do it all alone, or that you give them a free ticket in life to make things easy. It does mean that you share your experience and wisdom, so they learn their limitations and develop the skills and courage to get assistance when needed.

If you choose a life of Advocacy, remember it’s a process that begins small. It may opening the door for someone in a walker or plugging in mobility carts at the store entrance. Or your action may be as bold to request the store manager have the handicap spaces plowed better. Rest assured as you build more advocacy muscle, you intuitively encourage others to do the difficult and the necessary using their resources. And that way of life soon becomes your means of giving a needed ‘hands up’.

I believe if act with this mindset, collectively we will change the world for the better–one connection at a time!

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