TBI One Love Podcast

To kick off the month of August we are having Kelsey O'Connor on the show. 

Kelsey was a NC State student and softball athlete. But unfortunately during her Junior year she sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury. Which meant softball was now forever over, and she was on the brink of even keeping up as a student. Kelsey struggled to speak without frequent stuttering, pausing, confusion, and therefore couldn’t even prove myself through performance, academic or otherwise, of any kind. The external labels had built her entire identity around were broken, crumbled to the core, and was left with all of the pieces of who she used to be and unsure how to rebuild.

After her recovery for several months, and finding the "new" her, she completed the University Honors Program, was a Dean’s Scholar and a High Impact Achievement Award recipient, both from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences! Then on top of that- Kelsey was chosen as the commencement student speaker for her graduation.

Make sure to tune in starting at 9pm cst: tbionelove.org/podcast

To learn more about her: https://www.kelseyoconnor.net

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