by Crash Support Network | Dec 10, 2025 | Survivor Story
Resilience once meant pushing through everything on my own. However, my recovery taught me that real strength comes from knowing when to reach out for support. I began recognizing the signs in myself when my thoughts raced and doubt crept in. Rather than suppressing...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 10, 2025 | Survivor Story
When the crash happened, it didn’t just damage my car, it changed how I moved through the world. Before, driving was automatic. Afterward, it became a place where my body reacted before I had time to think. For months, something as simple as merging onto the freeway...
by Crash Support Network | Sep 12, 2025 | Brain Injury, Survivor Story
In 2021, my life changed in a split second. A car accident left me with a concussion and a new reality I never saw coming. At the beginning, even the simplest tasks felt impossible. I was a single mom who could not figure out how to make my kids’ lunches. Their...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 6, 2024 | Survivor Story
It was a sunny yet brisk day in February of 2008. I was a student returning back to Auburn University after a brief time spent home with a friend of mine. I had just eaten lunch with my family, waved them good-bye and started back towards campus. At Auburn, I was a...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 10, 2024 | Survivor Story |
How I Survived Surviving – One Musician’s Journey to Recovery I’m no stranger to plans completely derailing. Just two nights before the accident our converted van was practically swallowed by thick mud in Las Vegas, New Mexico, forcing us to stay awake...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 10, 2024 | Survivor Story
Why You Shouldn’t Say These Phrases to Someone Who’s Grieving When I was hit head-on by a drunk driver in May 2021, the immediate recovery was undeniably the most difficult time of my life. The day before my crash, I was a healthy 22-year-old attending an...
by Crash Support Network | Mar 7, 2024 | Survivor Story
Poetry For Healing: Making Sense of a New World May 22nd, 2020 was not a typical day. I was starting work late due to a routine doctors appointment and a post-op pet rabbit. I would end it in a hospital bed, with strict instructions not to move in case I...
by Crash Support Network | Sep 22, 2023 | Organizations, Survivor Story
We’d finally made it. After 16 years of marriage, 5 kids in 6 years (including 2 sets of twins), health challenges galore, financial hardship… life. For the first time we finally felt like things were at that ‘point’ that we’d always wanted to get to. During COVID...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 14, 2023 | Survivor Story
The way I move through my days now is so incredibly different and yes there is the sacredness and how I love the sacredness of my life now post-accident. My innate ability to appreciate life’s little moments is the epitome of what I would call sacred. But it...