🧠✨ Stroke Recovery • Brain Aneurysm Awareness • Survivor Stories
Shello, beautiful souls! 🧜♀️💖
Welcome to a special episode of Survivor Sunday—on a Saturday! Your hosts, Tawnie, a 2x brain aneurysm survivor and awareness ambassador, and fellow stroke survivor Maddie, dive into the power of resilience, reframing challenges, and showing up (even when your nerves say otherwise!).
This candid conversation covers everything from brain injury conference prep and stroke survivor tips to speaking engagements and self-empowerment. Tawnie shares her excitement—and nerves—about speaking at the UC Irvine Brain Injury Conference as the Neuro Mermaid, while Maddie recaps her experience performing in the powerful Stroke Monologues in Pittsburgh.
💬 Topics include:
How to overcome anxiety before a speech
What to wear to a brain injury or stroke awareness event
Reframing fear as growth in your stroke recovery journey
Celebrating your strokeversary/life-aversary
Building community after a brain aneurysm or stroke
Empowering yourself to travel and speak solo
Whether you’re healing from a stroke, living with a brain aneurysm, or supporting a loved one, this episode reminds you that you’re not alone—and you get to thrive after survival.
💌 Want to be featured on a future Survivor Sunday?
Send a DM to Tawnie or Maddie (even better set up a 3 way chat)—we welcome stroke warriors, caregivers, brain injury advocates, and healthcare providers to share their stories.
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