Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior

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Manifesting Your Dreams
Setting Goals & Thinking Positively to Live The Life of Your Dreams - - Successful people know how to succeed and what it takes to succeed. - So what is it? What do they know that you don't? -
The Process
Healing Physically, Adapting Mentally and Emotionally - Amputation isn't just the act of amputating a limb. - It isn't just surgery, heal, and walk. - This is a process. It takes time, money, patien
What Is Really Important
Knowing Who and What To Ask About Amputation - - Becoming an amputee is so surreal. Electing to have it done is a choice I never thought I would have to make. - It brings about fears, anxieties, q
Don’t Let Pain Gain Control
- This has been a weekend! - Everything was set up perfectly. A family getaway for a long weekend, before our youngest goes back to college, and bringing the dogs to see the ocean for the first time
To Revise Or Not To Revise
That is the Question Amputation is a difficult road, one that can change direction quickly, even after you heal. - For many amputees the surgical side of their life isnt over. Many of us end up needi
Make It Personal
Amputation is a tough road. If you make the decision to amputate or if your limb is taken from you by accident or disease it's a bumpy ride, right from the get go. Most people assume that once you get
The Secret Sauce
Letting Go and Leaning In - I have been an amputee for 6 1/2 years, but before that I had a taekwondo injury that took me through 5 years, 10 surgeons and 10 surgeries, plus a blood clot to decide i
Hand Me That Weight
We Need Each Other - - We are creatures built to live in community. - This gives us a safe place to celebrate in great times, gain support in the bad ones, and everything in between. - Talking wit
Dr Hugh Herr: Bionics and Beyond
The AMI Procedure and Magneto Micrometry - This week I was honored to have back on my podcast, Dr Hugh Herr. - Hugh is a bilateral below knee amputee and a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MI
Starting Over and Facing Fears
Life after Revision Surgery for an Amputee - - I must have been crazy, right? To CHOOSE to revise my amputation! To go from being uber active to starting over?!?! Golfing on Kauai Having fun cat