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A podcast for anyone living in the After—the part of life that begins when injury, illness, burnout, caregiving, or grief rewrites the rules. Conversations with clinicians, thinkers, and survivors about nonlinear healing, updated expectations, and building a life that works with the body and brain you have now.
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Send us Fan Mail A traumatic brain injury isn’t just the moment it happens. It’s everything that follows. In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie speaks with actor and audiobook narrator Suzanne Barbetta about the hidden, often misunderstood reality of TBI. Suzanne’s injury didn’t look severe. No loss of consciousness. No visible damage. But what followed was disorientation, emotional disconnection, memory disruption, and a complete shift in how her brain functioned. Together, they explore w...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Rupture, host Wendy Lurrie welcomes back Nina Scherenberg for an intimate and devastatingly honest conversation about what happens when one rupture becomes many. After a traumatic birth, Nina sensed something was wrong with her newborn son, but her concerns were repeatedly dismissed. Days later, she learned he had suffered a massive ischemic stroke that destroyed much of the left side of his brain. That diagnosis was only the beginning. Nina shares the casc...
Send a text What happens when nothing about the way you look has changed, but everything about the way you function has? In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie talks with Fallon Morey about invisible disability, the pressure to seem fine, and the exhausting labor of having to constantly explain, justify, and translate what others cannot see. Fallon shares her experience with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and being diagnosed as autistic later in life, and how those ruptures reshaped her work, i...
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a traumatic brain injury changes your ability to trust your own brain? In this episode of Rupture, Wendy Lurrie sits down with Kim Lauersdorf to discuss the complex journey of recovery after TBI. They explore how trust evolves after brain injury. Trust in doctors, treatments, and eventually in yourself. Recovery often involves trial and error, shifting expectations, and learning to advocate for your own needs inside a complicated medical system. This convers...
Send us Fan Mail What happens when your immune system turns on you. And the healthcare system is not built to catch you. In this episode of Rupture, Nina Scherenberg shares her experience living with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that reshaped her body, identity, and daily life. She describes the flare that left her unable to sit upright. The long path to diagnosis. The exhaustion of navigating specialists who do not communicate with each other. And the emotional cost of becoming your o...
Send us Fan Mail Content Note: This episode contains discussion of self-harm, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), eating disorders, and related mental health challenges. If you are in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you are outside the U.S., please contact local crisis support services. What drives self-harm and eating disorders? How do non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), disordered eating, and maladaptive coping mechanisms develop? And why does stigma prev...
Send us Fan Mail Traumatic brain injury can change everything. Not just how the brain functions, but how a person understands themselves, their limits, and their future. In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie is joined by neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Melody Merati for an honest, deeply human conversation about what TBI really looks like beyond the MRI. They discuss why traumatic brain injury recovery is rarely linear, why many symptoms never appear on scans, a...
Send us Fan Mail What happens when the systems designed to support people stop working? In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, strategic HR executive Marlo Green joins the conversation to unpack why modern HR leadership is failing employees. And how it can be rebuilt. Marlo shares her journey into HR, the limits of policy-driven people operations, and why psychological safety, trust, and manager capability are the real drivers of employee engagement. Together, we explore mom...
Send us Fan Mail Menopause is not just hot flashes. It is a full body and brain shift that collides with modern work, leadership expectations, and a culture that still treats the topic as taboo. Wendy Lurrie sits down with leadership coach and brand consultant Lauren Glazer to talk about the real workplace impact of perimenopause. They unpack why so many women learn what’s happening from friends, not doctors. Why identity can be the first system to fail. And what simple workplace signals and ...
Send us Fan Mail Caregiving is often framed as an act of love. What is rarely acknowledged is the emotional load, financial strain, identity shift, and systemic failure that caregivers are forced to navigate every day. In this deeply personal episode, Wendy Weingart shares how her life abruptly changed when her husband faced severe health challenges. What began as partnership quickly became full-time caregiving, bringing emotional exhaustion, unexpected financial costs, workplace strain, and ...
Send us Fan Mail Vision is how we move through the world. After a traumatic brain injury, that relationship can change in ways that are often invisible, misunderstood, or dismissed. In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, Wendy Lurrie speaks with occupational therapist and vision rehabilitation specialist Kellianne Arnella about the complex link between brain injury and visual processing. They explore how TBI and concussions disrupt eye movement, spatial awareness, sensory in...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan, host Wendy Lurrie is joined by Kim Lauersdorf, founder of Cosmic Shift, for an intimate conversation about life after traumatic brain injury. This is not a story about quick recovery or inspirational transformation. It’s a conversation about rupture. About what happens when a brain injury reshapes identity, language, work, and relationships, and when the healthcare and disability systems meant to help instead create mor...
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