In October 2024, Danielle Damrell was driving home in her neighborhood when a Ford F350 hit her head-on. Three weeks later, on the drive home from a family vacation in Tennessee, a woman flew through an intersection at 55 miles per hour and T-boned the rental car, throwing it 20 feet off the road.
Two accidents, only three weeks apart resulting in a traumatic brain injury diagnosis four months later.
What makes Danielle's story different is that she walks, talks, runs a business, hosts a podcast, and from the outside looks completely fine. And that invisibility, that gap between what people see and what is actually happening inside, is something TBI wives know deeply. Because they live it every day with their husbands.
In this episode, Danielle shares what it looked like to hustle through the symptoms because she had things to do, to watch her income disappear faster than she could hand off clients, to navigate memory loss and visual overstimulation and rage that made no sense, and to slowly surrender a life she had built at full speed. She also shares the unexpected gift that came from stepping into Erika's home to care for Shelby and what showering a man who used to shower twice a day taught her about gratitude, dignity, and what it means to serve from a full cup.
Danielle gives us all the reminder through this episode that we all are created worthy!
Be sure to tune into the Created Worthy Podcast to hear all the amazing interviews, sharing many amazing women's life stories
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