Joe interviews his friend and fellow stroke survivor Rebekah with K just a week before she undergoes brain surgery. They discuss stroke recovery and how to mentally and emotionally prepare for brain surgery. If you have ever gone through preparing for surgery, what are some tools and techniques you used to get yourself ready mentally and emotionally? Please share on our socials.
Joe and Lauren talk all about music and how it affects the brain, how the brain processes it, how the brain creates it and how it can help heal the brain. They explore the process of memory and music. Plus they discuss studies that reveal a lot about how the brain works through its relationship to music. What’s your favorite song and memory connected to it? Please share on our socials!
As California locks down again during this pandemic, our co-hosts, Joe and Lauren reunite for a virtual episode. They talk being safe during this time as brain injury survivors, things to fill our time like video games, movies, tv shows and nerdom! What are you doing for fun to get through this pandemic? Please share on our socials!
This episode is a part of our Amplify Black Voices series. In this series, we are featuring Black stroke and brain injury survivors sharing their experiences of being Black in America as well as their recovery journeys. This episode features blogger and stroke survivor, Octavia Burrell. Octavia shares her recovery journey, her perspective on the racial and political climate today and the new tide of change. Let’s continue the discussion on our various social channels.
This episode is the first in our Amplify Black Voices series. In this series, we are featuring Black stroke and brain injury survivors sharing their experiences of being Black in America as well as their recovery journeys. Our first interview in this series is with Courtney Washington, a stroke survivor from Atlanta, Georgia. She shares a rich and often heartbreaking history of her family’s incredible tenacity and strength in the face of slavery and racism. Some of these stories may be difficult to hear especially for young listeners, but we hope that her family’s history and her personal stories will help further remind us all of the work that needs to be done to make real change in America. Let’s continue the discussion on our various social channels.