{"id":2569,"date":"2012-12-02T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2015-02-18T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:22:21","slug":"2012-12-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-12-02\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mind of My Own: memoir of recovery from Aphasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Harrianne Mills<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">December 2, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2573\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"2012-12-02-Harrianne-Mills-\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-02-Harrianne-Mills-.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-02-Harrianne-Mills-.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2012-12-02-Harrianne-Mills--234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 85vw, 273px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harrianne Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Mind of My Own is a dramatic true story of one woman\u201ds recovery from traumatic brain damage following a motorcycle accident in Greece. Facing far more than broken bones and physical impairments, this classical antiquity professor had lost what was most important to her: her ability to successfully use language. This insightful and moving memoir begins with her awakening from a coma and not recognizing family members and follows her journey of recovery. Using journal entries, medical records, letters, and more, she tells her story from multiple perspectives. In a process reminiscent of the literary ascent in Flowers for Algernon, her journal entries illustrate her remarkable journey and provide an intimate narrative of what it takes to become a whole person again after severe brain damage. Her successful step-by-step struggle to return to a normal life is a reminder of what the human spirit is capable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2575\" title=\"Book-cover-300\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Book-cover-300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Book-cover-300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Book-cover-300-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 85vw, 203px\" \/>Harrianne and her son, Lucas, are active in the Family Program at HCSV.\u00a0 We are very fortunate that she will be sharing her amazing story with us.\u00a0 Her book is also available at the Forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/58800686\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/58800686\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-12-02): A Mind of My Own: memoir of recovery from Aphasia (Harrianne Mills)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrianne Mills December 2, 2012 A Mind of My Own is a dramatic true story of one woman\u201ds recovery from traumatic brain damage following a motorcycle accident in Greece. Facing far more than broken bones and physical impairments, this classical antiquity professor had lost what was most important to her: her ability to successfully use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-12-02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Mind of My Own: memoir of recovery from Aphasia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[101,100,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7575,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/7575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}