Welcome back to Powerful Vulnerability! Today we are joined by one of Dr. Ashley's best friends in the whole world, Dr. Kaitlin Swanson. Dr. Swanson graduated with her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of William and Mary in 2009 and with her doctorate in psychology from Rutgers University in 2016. Dr. Swanson spent her career as a school psychologist for at risk middle schools. Dr. Swanson now lives in New Jersey with her husband of nine years, Jon. She has been battling ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) for over nine years and has become paralyzed, losing her ability to walk, work and speak. Dr. Swanson communicated with us today with the assistance of her eye-gaze communication device, the Tobii Dynavox, and her voice clone from ElevenLabs. Join us as she shares about her disease, her coping strategies for when life is not how you planned for, and her words of wisdom.If you would like to join us for the 2026 Seaside ALS United Walk, you can find registration and donation information here https://secure.alsmidatlantic.org/site/TR?fr_id=1272&pg=entry