Recovery Doesn't End, She Proves It Every Day , She is DETERMINED l #201

*She was DETERMINED to not let Broca's aphasia slow her down.  Recovery after a stroke and aphasia never stops.*   *Get your starting point: https://findaphasiasupport.com*   *If you think you're done — you're not.  Nine years in, Michelle is still proving that recovery doesn't end when you think it does.*     *You've been here a while. Maybe a year, maybe longer. And somewhere along the way you accepted it: this is the recovery. This is as good as it gets. The gains have stopped. You're managing now, not improving.*   *That's the story you're telling yourself. I want to tell you a different one.* *Nine years ago, Michelle Clemens was a news anchor and reporter. She was living the professional life she'd built. Then she had a brain bleed. Three surgeries. 1% odds. Aphasia. Apraxia. And somewhere around year one, like everyone else, she probably thought recovery had a finish line and she'd found it.*   *But she didn't stop. She took a three-week cruise when she could barely speak. She went back to school. She wrote a book. She became a trainer, a speaker, a documentary producer. Nine years in, she's still working. Still improving. Still living a life that proves something nobody tells you: recovery doesn't have an endpoint.*   *Not if you don't want it to.*   *Her dad Vince is here too, sharing what it looks like to support someone who keeps deciding to rebuild. Together they wrote a book called "Determined" about her first year of recovery. But Michelle lived eight more years beyond it.*   *00:00 Critical Surgery Decision* *01:02 Meet Michelle and Vince* *01:56 Life Before the Stroke* *02:56 Midnight Headache Warning* *05:46 Brain Bleed and Transfer* *06:46 Determination in Recovery* *08:49 CaringBridge Support Network* *10:42 Australia Cruise Milestone* *12:46 Inside the Book Determined* *14:51 New Life and Four Jobs* *16:09 Power of Attorney Wake-Up Call* *17:54 Where to Get the Book* *18:31 Rebuilding Life After Aphasia* *19:01 Final Thanks and Links*   *You're not done recovering. Not if you don't want to be.*   *Take the Aphasia Strengths Compass and find out where you're standing. Let's build your path forward.  https://findaphasiasupport.com*   *Get Michelle's book on Amazon.*    *Read about Michelle's journey on her website: https://www.michelleclemens.com/*   *@LIFEBeyondAphasia*