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Praise for REBOOTING MY BRAIN
Maria Ross is a courageous and amazing woman who has turned her determination to return to a vital and meaningful life after a ruptured brain aneurysm into a mission to help others. She tells her wonderful story with humor, insight and profound understanding of what is truly valuable in a life well-lived in Rebooting My Brain. I highly recommend it as inspiring reading and as an intimate way to learn about this very common life-threatening condition.
A captivating, deeply authentic memoir of a devastating illness and a heroic recovery. Maria Ross’ memoir Rebooting My Brain is a testament to one woman’s personal courage and a reminder that health is a tenuous treasure.
Maria Ross weaves a tale of inspiration, love and hope about an active woman reclaiming her life after an unexpected crisis. Her humorous and honest voice leaps off the page and makes you feel as if you’re talking to her over coffee, even when she’s describing medical procedures. This is a must-read for anyone who’s ever had the rug pulled out from under them, not just brain injury survivors and their families.
Her experiences strike me as authentic, compared to many other memoirs. She truly writes with unabashed candor. The post-aneurysm months were excruciating, but with tremendous spirit (perhaps that perky marketing optimism helps) we root for her. She’s humorous and honest …Her reflections on the tenuous, and even frivolous, nature of health are touching. It’s all random. And it doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe.
Tragedy can quickly turn to opportunity. With a positive message that speaks loudly, “Rebooting my Brain” is a fine read that shouldn’t be overlooked by anyone seeking recovery-oriented memoirs.
Rebooting My Brain is a deeply moving account of Maria Ross’s brain aneurysm and her struggle to come to terms with it. She has written a memoir full of humor, grace, and hope, making it clear such a devastating injury can be overcome and can even serve as a means of discovering what is truly important in this life.
Rebooting My Brain is an inspirational memoir about the human capacity to recover—and thrive—after a devastating crisis. Maria Ross tells a moving tale that reminds us not to take anything in our lives for granted, especially those we love.
Rebooting My Brain is a story about the devastating strike of illness and its effects. What is so moving about Ross’ account is that, though she follows a traditional route, she makes the story her own, and gives it generously to her readers.
Maria Ross is a courageous and amazing woman who has turned her determination to return to a vital and meaningful life after a ruptured brain aneurysm into a mission to help others. She tells her wonderful story with humor, insight and profound understanding of what is truly valuable in a life well-lived in Rebooting My Brain. I highly recommend it as inspiring reading and as an intimate way to learn about this very common life-threatening condition.
A captivating, deeply authentic memoir of a devastating illness and a heroic recovery. Maria Ross’ memoir Rebooting My Brain is a testament to one woman’s personal courage and a reminder that health is a tenuous treasure.
Maria Ross weaves a tale of inspiration, love and hope about an active woman reclaiming her life after an unexpected crisis. Her humorous and honest voice leaps off the page and makes you feel as if you’re talking to her over coffee, even when she’s describing medical procedures. This is a must-read for anyone who’s ever had the rug pulled out from under them, not just brain injury survivors and their families.
Her experiences strike me as authentic, compared to many other memoirs. She truly writes with unabashed candor. The post-aneurysm months were excruciating, but with tremendous spirit (perhaps that perky marketing optimism helps) we root for her. She’s humorous and honest …Her reflections on the tenuous, and even frivolous, nature of health are touching. It’s all random. And it doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe.
Tragedy can quickly turn to opportunity. With a positive message that speaks loudly, “Rebooting my Brain” is a fine read that shouldn’t be overlooked by anyone seeking recovery-oriented memoirs.
Rebooting My Brain is a deeply moving account of Maria Ross’s brain aneurysm and her struggle to come to terms with it. She has written a memoir full of humor, grace, and hope, making it clear such a devastating injury can be overcome and can even serve as a means of discovering what is truly important in this life.
Rebooting My Brain is an inspirational memoir about the human capacity to recover—and thrive—after a devastating crisis. Maria Ross tells a moving tale that reminds us not to take anything in our lives for granted, especially those we love.
Rebooting My Brain is a story about the devastating strike of illness and its effects. What is so moving about Ross’ account is that, though she follows a traditional route, she makes the story her own, and gives it generously to her readers.
Maria Ross is a courageous and amazing woman who has turned her determination to return to a vital and meaningful life after a ruptured brain aneurysm into a mission to help others. She tells her wonderful story with humor, insight and profound understanding of what is truly valuable in a life well-lived in Rebooting My Brain. I highly recommend it as inspiring reading and as an intimate way to learn about this very common life-threatening condition.
MEDIA & SPEAKING
Maria would be thrilled to delight your media audience or speak to your group, association or conference about inspiration, transformation or facing adversity. She can also offer the patient perspective about surviving a brain injury, health literacy, or patient and family centered care.
Sample topics related to Rebooting My Brain:
- A Life Interrupted: A Patient POV on Patient and Family Centered Care
- Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Flipped my Entrepreneurial Switch
- Face the Fear, Walk the Talk
- Five Surprising Effects of Brain Injury
- Seven Ways to Reboot Your Brain and Reframe Your Life
- Seven Lessons for Branding Your Business…And Living Your Life (business audiences)
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Media or Speaking Inquiries? Please contact me!
MEDIA KIT:
If you’re a journalist, blogger or host, please download the full Media Kit here. Inside, you’ll find an author photo, book cover graphic, book information, interview questions, proposed story angles and brain aneurysm statistics.
February 1, 2012 Press Release: Rebooting My Brain: New Book Offers Hope and Humor After Brain Aneurysm
STATISTICS: (courtesy of The Brain Aneurysm Foundation):
- An estimated 6 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people
- The annual rate of rupture is approximately 8 per 100,000 people or about 25,000 people
- About 40% of all people who have a ruptured brain aneurysm will die as a result
- 4 out of 7 people who recover from a ruptured brain aneurysm will have disabilities
- Brain aneurysms are most prevalent in people ages 35 – 60, but can occur in children as well
- Women, more than men, suffer from brain aneurysms at a ratio of 3:2
- Ruptured brain aneurysms account for 3 – 5% of all new strokes
