004: Elizabeth Peirce

09/16/20 • 37 min

Elizabeth Peirce is a Halifax-based writer, editor, and teacher. Her 2019 book Lost and Found: Recovering Your Spirit After a Concussion is based in her own experience and that of other mTBI survivors, and shares strategies for self-healing from this difficult injury. Find links to her books, workshops, and blog at https://elizabethpeirce.ca

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003: Sarah Blanchard

On January 10th 2017, on a business trip in Italy, Sarah Blanchard experienced acute onset nausea and vertigo. After three hours, she was so debilitated that it became a struggle to even call for help. Sarah’s life was changed when at 29 she was diagnosed with a Stroke.

Since then, she is a passionate advocate for younger survivors, creating programs and raising awareness for women’s heart and brain health

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005: Lauren Spear

Lauren Spear worked as a special education teacher in South Australia, when she was involved in a work place accident in 2018, whilst helping one of her struggling students off a piece of playground equipment.

For the last 2 and a half years she has been living with and working hard in her rehabilitation and recovery from a brain injury, supporting and advocating for the wider concussion and brain injury community along the way.

In 2019, she decided to begin her personal blog and organization called The Orange Butterfly, reminding all to embrace new life and challenges with hope, and dedicating herself to closing the often misunderstood gap between the brain injury community and the wider community by spreading education and awareness.