Thrive x Strive

04/30/2024

🌟🎙️ Exciting News from Thrive X Strive! 🎙️🌟

We’re thrilled to unveil our brand new podcast—a series dedicated to shining a light on occult awareness! Occult Awareness 🕵️‍♂️🔦 Join us as we delve into the complex world of difficult diagnoses, the challenges of doctor-patient relationships, and the often overlooked issue of gaslighting in healthcare.

🎧 What to Expect:

• Heartfelt Stories: Listen to individuals bravely share their journeys through challenging symptoms and diagnoses.
• Doctor Insights: Learn from medical professionals who offer a deeper understanding and supportive perspectives.
• Overcoming Gaslighting: Discover powerful stories of advocacy and learn tips on how to stand your ground.
• Practical Advice: Equip yourself with knowledge and strategies to navigate the healthcare system effectively.

📅 Stay Tuned! Our first episode drops soon! Don’t miss out on these enlightening conversations designed to empower and inform.

👍 Like, Share, and Comment: We want to hear from you! Share your own experiences and let’s build a community of support and awareness together.

💬 Join us on this journey and transform the way we think about health and diagnosis.

02/24/2024

As you all know, I also have a performance right before surgery…loll call me crazy. But I think this is still happening!! ❤️
So, we still need to get ready at those particular times in creative practice and devices.💡

But yes, if you have a chance, Save the date for the Reeve Summit 2024: Building Healthy Futures, March 6-8, 2024, at the Hilton Washington DC Capitol Hill! I'll be performing a tribute to Judy Heumann and hope you can join me. This event is a unique opportunity for advocates, caregivers, and researchers to collaborate and shape an inclusive future. Register today at ChristopherReeve.org/ReeveSummit.

02/05/2024

Please help to spread your kindness and words!❤️ I have been continuously playing through my paralysis journey. It has been increasingly tricky in recent days. We finally found the answer and possible recovery with a fantastic surgeon. I need your help to preserve the function of my hand as a violinist and return to enjoying performing without exhausting my body immensely.

Hello! My name is Amy. As a dedicated violinist studying at the Univ… Amy Hiller needs your support for Help Violinist Amy’s Lifesaving Skull-Neck Surgery

11/14/2023

Roughly 12% of people in the U.S. provide unpaid care to family members, a number that will likely increase as our population ages and people with disabilities live longer. Working to ensure long-term sustainability within these relationships is necessary as we look towards the future. For National Family Caregivers Month, join Hannah Soyer, Naomi D. Williams, and Amy Wang-Hiller for a discussion on navigating caregiving dynamics with family members – both as a caregiver and someone receiving care.

Cultivating Sustainability in Family Caregiving Dynamics
Nov. 15, 2pm ET
ChristopherReeve.org/events

Live captioning and ASL provided



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Roughly 12% of people in the U.S. provide unpaid care to family members, a number that will likely increase as our population ages and people with disabilities live longer. Working to ensure long-term sustainability within these relationships is necessary as we look towards the future. For National Family Caregivers Month, join Hannah Soyer, Naomi D. Williams, and Amy Wang-Hiller, Thrive x Strive, for a discussion on navigating caregiving dynamics with family members – both as a caregiver and someone receiving care.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3QRbu9U | 11/15 2PM ET

Live captioning and ASL are provided.

11/09/2023

That can’t be!! I never shared this!? Well, it was the time we as musicians showed the most of creative self, diversity, and resilience in special time like 2020

Day 22/31: Amy Wang-Hiller, violinist.

Before shutdown, Amy was teaching privately, performing with Shreveport Symphony Orchestra & collaborating with colleagues at UNT College of Music.

She'd already been working on her own mental health by training to become an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) practitioner, so Amy immediately noticed the emotional toll quarantine was taking on everyone... but after a friend committed su***de 💔 she decided to utilize her NLP training to help others on a broader scale by launching her Thrive x Strive Musician Podcast.

"I believe healing is from within. Our thoughts create our reality, so we are also the ones who can change and heal it. I am still perfectly flawed and always will be, but I am loving this process of sharing my journey of recovery to give people hope and the feeling that they are not alone."

BIGGEST CHALLENGE?
"Making sure that I don't fall into my old pattern of thinking: comparing and competing. They are the worst enemy to our happiness and fulfillment."

💕 She hit the nail on the head there. Comparison, especially when we are starting out with something new, does not serve our growth. We are each on our own journeys. 💕

And what a journey that has been for Amy!

She shares her powerful personal story of overcoming an eating disorder by rewiring her brain through meditation & heightened awareness. She also interviews leaders in the music community to initiate conversations about building a healthy body & mind.

"I believe all musicians have the special strength to heal our own trauma and bring our shadow self to the light."

Subscribe to the Thrive x Strive Musician Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like what she is doing, leave her a review on iTunes!

To find out more follow Amy Wang Violin & Thrive x Strive or visit http://www.amywangviolin.com/podcast

09/03/2023

It is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. 💚Trying to buy new shoes with a spinal cord injury can be challenging for many reasons. My feet were so swollen, which made it even harder. And there are more: the high curvature on top of the feet, the limited hand function, the theoretical idea vs practical application … 🤷🏻‍♀️

I recently just purchased a bunch of shoes to try, and after trial and error, I found this pink Velcro shoes not only cute but now both me and Jason’s favorite. It is easy to take off and get on and even had excellent compression effects.

It is an ongoing learning process for me to find what fits the best, like the clothing issues I ran into after being in a wheelchair, after becoming a quad from a para, after surgeries during postoperative care, after starting the suprapubic catheter, etc.… And this is just life. Changes are inevitable, so all I can do is embrace and enjoy the process.

And I'm also grateful for my wheelchair adjustments that I no longer have the “snow boots”! 🤣- no…It was, unfortunately, just not the best fit for my situation. Without trying to experiment, we will never know what works or not.

I don’t know why my instagram only automatically share on my personal page than this one.

Anyway, it’s a spinal cord injury awareness month. Life with SCI is not sad or pitty but a beginning of adaptive and creative living, opening the mind to possibilities. ❤️

08/24/2023

🎙️Our guest Adrian Anantawan is a Canadian violinist who holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the founder of the Music Inclusion Program, which aims to help children with disabilities learn instrumental music with other typical peers.

In this episode, We discuss the diversity needs in the current classical world, technical adaptation in music performance, and how to see strength through our disabilities.

🎧Listen on: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thrive-x-strive-musician-podcast/id1517329870?i=1000622965184

📝Detailed show notes & transcription:
https://amywangviolin.com/podcast/2023/7/adriananantawan

03/20/2023

The new episode of the podcast is here!

In this episode, I shared my medical story, part 2, about how I experienced traumatic experiences with progressive paralysis while staying in the moment and continuing my performance career. I want to share my stories now, right before my surgery ...