113. Challenges That Change Us with Ali Flynn

2024-02-19

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Trigger warning: Mental Health, Stroke Welcome to Episode 113 - Challenges That Change Us with Ali Flynn Life is full of challenges that we face. For the most part, we’re pretty good at overcoming these challenges, celebrating for a moment, then moving on with life. But what if that challenge fundamentally changes everything we do in life from that moment forward? This is what happened to Ali Flynn. At 30 she was getting ready for her day when a stroke stopped her in her tracks. What started as a headache and pi...

Trigger warning: Mental Health, Stroke

Welcome to Episode 113 - Challenges That Change Us with Ali Flynn

Life is full of challenges that we face. For the most part, we’re pretty good at overcoming these challenges, celebrating for a moment, then moving on with life. But what if that challenge fundamentally changes everything we do in life from that moment forward?

This is what happened to Ali Flynn. At 30 she was getting ready for her day when a stroke stopped her in her tracks. What started as a headache and pins and needles, resulted in hospitalisation, vision loss, memory loss, seizures and more. Ali shares how this challenge changed her life forever… and the lives of her husband, children, family and friends. Join us as we dive into life after a stroke. We’ll talk symptoms, diagnoses, recovery, family, work and so much more!

Key points

In this episode Ali shares:

- Her story of having a stroke

- The physical, mental and emotional impacts of stroke

- How her stroke impacted her family life

- The systems she had to put in place to manage her day

- Sharing her story on the Challenges That Change Us Podcast

Quotes

"In my experience, there's more learnings when I get it wrong or when I'm up against challenges”

"I don't have a lot of memory of that time but I remember fighting through every day.”

"I wasn't the person that he married. I was homeless in my body, I was homeless in my mind."

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