I'm John...
My Story
One day in January 2018, I went for my daily run.
Shortly after I would become a cardiac arrest survivor.
I'm a writer, brand marketer and creative professional, as well as a husband, father and grandfather.
When your life ends in an instant, there's no guidebook to show you how to build a new one while you live with the effects of anoxic brain injury.
That's why I'm sharing my story of losing my previous life and my journey to build a new one I love. I'm transparent, and I share both my victories and my failures without holding back. My hope is to help others who are learning to thrive, not just survive.
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My Journey
Surviving cardiac arrest is miraculous.
Surviving also comes with aftermath.
Sharing my journey from surviving to thriving takes vulnerability and transparency.
Thanks for joining me.
Write It Out, On Paper: Rewire Your Brain Series
My speech therapist gave me a strange assignment after brain injury: keep a written log of my day. I didn’t know it would become the thing that rewired how I process my emotions. There’s a saying and principle in the worlds of neurology and psychology: Neurons that fire together, wire together. Writing makes things in our brain fire together. It can change your brain, and change your life. It’s not an overstatement.
Speak Different Words: Rewire Your Brain Series
My neurologists gave me one piece of advice that sounded like fluff until he explained the neuroscience behind it — the words I speak after I fail are literally rewiring my brain, for better or worse.
Endless Possibilities: Rewire Your Brain Series
This is first in a series on rewiring your brain. My neurologist told me that some “roads” my brain previously took to help me function were now closed. They would never reopen. That was bad news. The good news, however difficult to hear, was that I could build new roads, or neural pathways.
