How can you go through a difficult life changing event and continue to move forward?
Lee Woodruff really understands this from her own personal experience. Her husband Bob Woodruff was at the top of his game in 2006 as co-anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight. But then tragedy struck when he was in a tank in Iraq which was hit by an explosive. Bob was severely injured and nearly died. Six years after his traumatic brain injury, Bob has stated that he is “getting back to normal” at home and at work as a national correspondent for ABC.
Lee talks honestly about resilience moving forward in her life and finding the ability to hope again. And through her journey Lee has achieved her own dream after the age of 50 by writing her debut novel Those We Loved Most which hit the New York Times Best Seller list.
Those We Loved Most is a book about human resilience. My favorite quote is in the beginning “Loss is not the end, it’s simply an invitation to change.”
We discuss:
- why Lee choose to write this story?
- loss, grief and resilience
- “magical thinking” ~ trying to make the tape in the mind change the present
- when in the dark abyss, how do you know that life will be better?
- what the past six years have taught her
- takeaways
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