Brain Injury Life
The true story behind the book Brain Injury Life — a father and daughter’s journey through survival and recovery after neurological trauma.
What began as a deeply personal story grew into a shared mission to help survivors and caregivers navigate life after brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Through lived experience, resilience, and reflection, Brain Injury Life explores the realities of recovery and the search for connection after trauma.
Our Story
Adel and Sarah Shadi are a father-daughter team shaped by decades of lived experience with traumatic brain injury and acquired neurological trauma. What began as a shared journey through survival, caregiving, and recovery became something deeper — a bond forged through resilience, learning, and purpose.
Their story spans brain injury, stroke, seizures, and the long road of rebuilding identity after life-changing trauma. Through years of perseverance, reflection, and growth, they transformed lived experience into insight meant to support others walking a similar path.
Our Mission
The story of Brain Injury Life became the foundation for a broader mission: helping survivors and caregivers rediscover connection after neurological trauma.
Through storytelling, community-building, and experience-based guidance, Adel and Sarah are working to end social isolation and bring hope to those navigating the long journey of recovery. Their work continues through a growing initiative dedicated to connection, healing, and purpose beyond survival.
How This Story Continues
Supporting your journey through healing and hope.
Storytelling
Stories have the power to illuminate what statistics cannot. By sharing their journey openly, Adel and Sarah aim to give voice to the invisible realities of brain injury, stroke, and seizure disorders. Their work blends lived experience with reflection, offering an honest, human perspective on recovery, identity, and resilience.
Guidance
Decades of lived experience revealed truths that no textbook could teach. Through Brain Injury Life, Adel and Sarah share distilled insights for survivors and caregivers navigating the long arc of recovery. From embracing the “new normal” to finding meaning after trauma, their guidance reflects lessons shaped not by theory, but by life itself.
Connection
At its heart, Brain Injury Life is about rebuilding connection after isolation. The story now lives beyond the pages of a book through a growing movement focused on bringing survivors and caregivers together. Through community, shared experience, and compassionate support, the mission is simple: no one should walk the road of neurological trauma alone.