#275 Post-Traumatic Resilience for Living Fully After Spinal Cord Injury with Maria Sirois, Psy.D.

On today’s episode, Dr. Maria Sirois shares her perspective on how trauma reshapes the body, mind, and relationships, and why gratitude, acceptance, and connection to others are essential to healing. She talks about the ways friendships, especially for young people, can sever after trauma and why, and how to begin repairing or redefining those bonds. She reflects on how trauma impacts people differently across the stages of life and offers a vision of what living a life of integration can look like after a spinal cord injury. Drawing from decades of experience working with loss, death chronic conditions and research, she offers grounded insight into ways of finding strength and meaning in the midst of hardship and why it’s possible for everyone because of our innate human capacity to be resilient.

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A non-profit which is an essential national resource for Spinal Cord Injury, originating the first SCI Navigator Program in the country for newly injured SCI Families by SCI Families as an essential national resource for Spinal Cord Injured families in the first days, weeks and months of SCI crisis when life turns upside down and few medical teams in the US have SCI expertise or lived experience. They bring essential support, connections, life expertise and resources. BLINK of an Eye non profit deploys a rapid response HEAL Team for ICU bedside support to create an Extraordinary Experience despite the devastation for SCI families and a personal SCI Navigator for 24/7 support in the first 90 days and throughout the Miracle Year. BLINK of an Eye non profit also provides a Multidisciplinary Wrap Around Team and SCI Expert Medical Panel.  Stay tuned for their launch of a National Digital Resource Library, the SCI PLAYBOOK, chocked full of essential SCI information and trauma informed responses for the first hours, days and months after injury. To find out more, get involved, or make a donation, visit www.BLINKofaneye.org.

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