After becoming quadriplegic or paralyzed from the shoulders down, Bernhardt had to learn how to write with her mouth. After learning how to spell her name and began to doodle. She never dreamed she could or would become a professional artist, but doing so has definitely given her a life purpose.
"When you're first disabled of course, it seems hopeless and helpless. But there is always something that we can contribute to society,'she says." "'Whether you have a physical disability or an emotional, or whatever it might be, if you can't change it, you got to work with it,' Bernhardt advises."
Before becoming a successful artist, she was a student at the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists, which is an organization that helps disabled artists advance their skills and create a community to display and sell their work.
Bernhardt's story sets the example that whether you are born with a disability or acquire one later in life,it does not have to stop you from discovering your dreams!
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