Life Over Pain
Life Over Pain is a podcast full of inspiring stores from people with chronic pain and/or traumatic brain injury. Their stories are about how they are not defined by their pain or injury. They describe how they make choices to adapt to their present circumstances to create lives of value despite pain and loss. And, BTW, If you'd like to share your story, or know of someone who might have a story to share, please email LifeOverPain1@gmail.com.
Podcasting since 2018 • 28 episodes
Life Over Pain
Latest Episodes
Life Over Pain - Amina - A Single Mom and Her Son Raise Each Other
After three brain injuries over her lifetime, Amina's cognitive ability was impacted in such a way that she was unable to ask for help on her own. But like many of us, it was hard for her to know how much she had really changed as a pers...
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Life Over Pain - Bella Paige - An Adrenaline Junkie Pays It Back
Bella Paige was a highly competitive show jumper as a younger girl. And she LOVED it. The adrenaline rush alone might have been enough to keep her going but she loved the competition, the horses, all of it. She planned to comp...
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Life Over Pain - Pamela Schmidt - Rediscovering Her Inner Superwoman
When you are faced with an existential crisis, it's hard to see what is right in front of you. Brain injury and Lime Disease screw with one's sense of self. Pamela Schmidt was a never-say-never person a superwoman in the flesh. ...
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Life Over Pain - Joseph Ryan - Finding a Purpose in Recovery
Joseph Ryan oozes enthusiasm. He's overcome so many brain injuries that his head seems to have been a target for danger rather than a protected space. As with many who have suffered brain injury pre-2018, his had gone undiagnosed.&n...
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Life Over Pain - Ethan O'Brian - From a Concussion Filled Youth to A Calling of Service to Others
It's hard to imagine a time when we didn't know how dangerous a blow to the head can be. But it was just 20 years ago when Ethan O'Brian was playing youth hockey and started getting banged into the boards and ice and other players. ...
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