Olivia Lewis: embracing life with transparency & grace

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Join me for an interview with Olivia Lewis, who survived a brainstem strokes and locked-in syndrome when she was in college at 21. She reframed a devastating event with grace and transparency. Olivia’s advocacy work hopes to help others understand what it felt like to be locked-in without anyone being able to understand you while cognitively she could understand everyone else.

“Before my stroke I saw the world in black and white; so fixed. I had to start learning to lean into the gray area. If I wanted to make this recovery happen, I couldn’t look at it as black or white. There where periods of time where I plateaued, when I didn’t make progress, and times when I progressed.”

— Olivia Lewis

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Music for the thought echoes podcast created by Andy Dovey of Brain Attack Music. Thank you Andy!