Waking Up to Write: A Brain Tumor Survivor's Story with Jennifer White

What does it take to relearn how to walk, think, and talk, and then find your way back to yourself through writing?Jennifer White is a retired RN and brain tumor surgery survivor. After waking up from a coma in January 2024, she had to relearn some of life's most basic skills. As part of her recovery, she began writing, which slowly helped memories return and gave her a new sense of purpose. She now writes medical thrillers and children's books, drawing directly from her experience as both a nurse and a patient.In this episode, Jennifer opens up about her turning point, the invisible challenges she still faces today, including depression, exhaustion, and difficulty finding words, and how writing became part of her healing and reinvention. She also shares how her medical background shaped the thrillers she now writes, and what she'd tell someone facing their own reinvention after crisis.WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:Waking from a coma and relearning to walk, think, and talkHow writing helped bring memories back during recoveryThe invisible, ongoing challenges of recoveryReinventing herself as an author after a medical crisisWeaving her nursing and patient experience into her medical thrillersWhat drives her to keep going and give backCONNECT WITH JENNIFER WHITE:Website: linked on her profileBook: The Triggering Scent, available on Amazon