Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke

Molly Buccola
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Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke

Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke is a podcast where stroke survivors share powerful stories of wisdom, purpose, connection, and hope.  Each episode offers a moment of pause for storytelling and reflection.Stroke offers a powerful, life-changing, shift in perspective.  Each colorful memory creates a parable for life’s greater teachings, a compass for journeys ahead, and inspired wisdom for unique growth.     Ultimately, Beyond Stillness is a welcoming environment that reveres the movement beyond stroke’s paralysis.  Still moments unite humanity and divinity.  

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Facing the Mirror: Finding Myself - Tania Saiz' Interview

    This week on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we welcome Tania Saiz—advocate, mindset facilitator, and neurodivergent artist whose creations celebrate perfect imperfections. After surviving an ischemic stroke in August 2020, Tania faced an overwhelming sense of disconnect. Mirrors became adversaries, and her own reflection felt like a stranger—fragile and unrecognizable. Yet, amidst this void, she began to rebuild.Through courage and patience, each moment of eye contact became an act o...

    34 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    Facing the Mirror: Finding Myself - Tania Saiz' Story

    This week on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we welcome Tania Saiz—advocate, mindset facilitator, and neurodivergent artist whose creations celebrate perfect imperfections. After surviving an ischemic stroke in August 2020, Tania faced an overwhelming sense of disconnect. Mirrors became adversaries, and her own reflection felt like a stranger—fragile and unrecognizable. Yet, amidst this void, she began to rebuild.Through courage and patience, each moment of eye contact became an act o...

    31 min

  3. DEC 9

    Thanksgiving Special Part Four

    This week and next on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we take a moment to look back before venturing forward. Over the past year, we’ve been privileged to publish forty-four individual stories. Each guest has spent an average of seven weeks working one-on-one with Beyond Stillness to reflect on the wisdom gained through their recovery and craft a story to inspire fellow survivors.In this season of thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a snippet of recovery wisdom or gratitude from each guest. ...

    28 min

  4. DEC 9

    Thanksgiving Special Part Three

    This week and next on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we take a moment to look back before venturing forward. Over the past year, we’ve been privileged to publish forty-four individual stories. Each guest has spent an average of seven weeks working one-on-one with Beyond Stillness to reflect on the wisdom gained through their recovery and craft a story to inspire fellow survivors.In this season of thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a snippet of recovery wisdom or gratitude from each guest. ...

    28 min

  5. DEC 1

    Thanksgiving Special Part Two

    This week and next on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we take a moment to look back before venturing forward. Over the past year, we’ve been privileged to publish forty-four individual stories. Each guest has spent an average of seven weeks working one-on-one with Beyond Stillness to reflect on the wisdom gained through their recovery and craft a story to inspire fellow survivors.In this season of thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a snippet of recovery wisdom or gratitude from each guest. ...

    28 min

  6. DEC 1

    Thanksgiving Special Part One

    This week and next on Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke, we take a moment to look back before venturing forward. Over the past year, we’ve been privileged to publish forty-four individual stories. Each guest has spent an average of seven weeks working one-on-one with Beyond Stillness to reflect on the wisdom gained through their recovery and craft a story to inspire fellow survivors.In this season of thanksgiving, we’ve compiled a snippet of recovery wisdom or gratitude from each guest. ...

    29 min

  7. NOV 23

    Learning to Breathe - Peter Cass' Story

    Imagine plunging into the depths of the English Channel, thirty meters below the surface, utterly alone. Panic takes over, your breath spiralling out of control when survival depends on calm. What happens next doesn’t just save the dive—it changes your outlook on life.Years later, a sudden stroke brings an entirely new challenge. Recovery plunges you into a different kind of depth—one filled with uncertainty, frustration, and self-discovery. Through this chaos, creativity ignites, lessons eme...

    31 min

  8. NOV 23

    Learning to Breathe - Peter Cass' Interview

    Imagine plunging into the depths of the English Channel, thirty meters below the surface, utterly alone. Panic takes over, your breath spiralling out of control when survival depends on calm. What happens next doesn’t just save the dive—it changes your outlook on life.Years later, a sudden stroke brings an entirely new challenge. Recovery plunges you into a different kind of depth—one filled with uncertainty, frustration, and self-discovery. Through this chaos, creativity ignites, lessons eme...

    26 min
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Beyond Stillness: Stories After Stroke is a podcast where stroke survivors share powerful stories of wisdom, purpose, connection, and hope.  Each episode offers a moment of pause for storytelling and reflection.Stroke offers a powerful, life-changing, shift in perspective.  Each colorful memory creates a parable for life’s greater teachings, a compass for journeys ahead, and inspired wisdom for unique growth.     Ultimately, Beyond Stillness is a welcoming environment that reveres the movement beyond stroke’s paralysis.  Still moments unite humanity and divinity.  

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