Invisible

Living with a brain injury can often feel as if you're carrying a secret. To the outside world, everything may appear normal, but internally there's a profound struggle that is hard to articulate and often harder to comprehend, even for those experiencing it. The changes brought on by a brain injury can be baffling and overwhelming, leading to daily challenges that are both exhausting and isolating. This sense of isolation can be utterly lonely; one must find ways to cope with these feelings or risk being engulfed by them. Amber Lohret, a former psychiatric nurse, shares her experience in accepting her new self, her new life, her new reality after facing a traumatic incident that resulted in a life-long TBI. No longer able to work as a nurse, Amber has since found solace in finding new modalities of healing others including reiki and yoga. In “Invisible” she shares details of what she had to overcome to recognize her (new) self, and share this new identity with loved ones and friends, despite looking the same on the outside.