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This paper entitled “Nature and Humanity as Healing Forces in Empowering the Disabled: AStudy of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden” focuses on Disability Studies thatexplores the minds of disabled bodies that assists to regenerate the stereotypic limits, the societyinject in them.Issues of disability in Children’s literature focus on the emotional complexityin young personalities. This paper speaks about the healing of lives by nature in the form of agarden. The renovated secret garden in this novel rejuvenates the physical and spiritual lives ofLennox and Cobin, the disabled figures focused. The paper focuses on Mary Lennox, the sick and abandoned girl. Being a nature lover, shesubmits herself to the secret garden to blossom into a kind hearted girl. Her kindness and lovelights up the life of Cobin, the young boy, whose freedom is restricted within the confinesof hiswheelchair. Healing process is not only done by nature but also by human beings who find themthrough nature.