Before we begin
Written by someone who's still in it, too.
Seven years ago, at 22, I had a major stroke. I suffered with paralysis on the left side of my body. Recovery, for me, was never a straight line — and the hardest part wasn't the early weeks, it was the long, quiet stretch afterward: figuring out who I was becoming, not just how to get "back to normal."
Today I'm a special education teacher training to become a speech-language pathologist. Still Beecoming is the resource I wish I'd had — workbooks built from lived experience, not just clinical theory, for the parts of recovery nobody hands you a pamphlet for.