
Ralph Preston
Founder and CEO of Stroke Buddies nonprofit; stroke survivor and advocate who created 400+ recovery videos to support stroke survivors with aphasia and post-stroke rehabilitation.
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Jun 25, 2026
What 18 Years of Stroke Recovery Teaches About Aphasia Mindset | #203
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But let's talk about what was the mindset? What was the kind of thinking that got you there? You had said, I know from your stroke story, that you came home in a wheelchair and you were not willing to settle with that.

Ralph PrestonGUEST
no no it was not like my mindset was i'm pretty intense so my mindset in the rehab hospitals i signed up for more therapies i found out i could go to different things that i wasn't pool therapy and stuff so i signed up for anything and everything i could i didn't want to watch sit in bed and watch tv but i could get better and i carried that right home and I started, I got home five o'clock one day and started the next morning doing, I literally did 10 hours a day of therapy for about 15 months.

Ralph PrestonGUEST
Every hour on the hour, every other hour on the hour, I would walk and the other hours I would work on my hand and my arm and shoulder.

Ralph PrestonGUEST
And so I encourage people in basically as running a group and doing videos, I'm basically coaching a lot of people at once.
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that can act as a distraction, that can work as something to put their focus on till they get through a moment.
