Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior
by Angie Heuser
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Breaking through mental and physical barriers to becoming your best self, living your best life.
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- Walking Through the Shadows · 18 min · Season 6 Episode 40Facing Fear One Step at a Time Fear doesn’t disappear just because we’ve healed, received a prosthesis, or reached a new milestone. Sometimes it’s still there when we try…
- Steady in the Current · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 39Finding Balance When Life Keeps Moving For my birthday, I went to Park City to fly fish with my family. I love being outdoors, but wading into a river as an above-knee amputee…
- The Road Forward May Look Different · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 38Finding Hope Beyond the Pivot Part Five of My Pivoting Series In this final episode of my Pivoting series, I’m sharing the reminder I’ve had to learn again and again: the road…
- Pivoting and Grief · 33 min · Season 6 Episode 37Honoring What Was, Before Reimagining What’s Next What if moving forward requires us to first acknowledge what we have lost? In Part Four of my five-part series on pivoting…
- Prepare and Pivot · Season 6 Episode 36How to Adapt When Life, and Travel, Don’t Go as Planned What do you do when you have prepared for everything, and life still throws you a curveball? In this episode of…
- Pivoting Isn’t Quitting: Changing the Path Without Losing the Purpose · 33 min · Season 6 Episode 35Power of the Pivot: Part 2 of 5 Sometimes the hardest part of a setback is not the pain itself, it is realizing that the plan you were so ready to chase suddenly cannot happen…
- The Power of the Pivot: A Five Part Series · 27 min · Season 6 Episode 34When Your Body Changes the Plan What if pulling back is not weakness, but the very thing that keeps you moving forward? In this episode of BAWarrior Podcast, I’m opening a new…
- International Travel as an Amputee · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 33From Phantom Pain to Freedom Walking Paris Streets What happens when the prosthetic leg you depend on suddenly will not charge-thousands of miles from home? In this episode of…
- Embracing Uncertainty · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 32Travel withLimb Difference You Don’t Have to Be Ready, to Be Read Confidence Comes After the First Step What if confidence isn’t what carries us toward the first step, but…
- Passport to Possibility · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 31Traveling With Confidence as an Amputee What if every new thing you accomplished earned you another stamp-not just in your travel passport, but in your confidence passport?…
- The Power of Self Advocacy in Prosthetic Care · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 30Advocate and Rise What happens when the people responsible for helping you move forward stop listening? You learn how powerful your own voice can become. In this episode of the…
- Reimagine Your Life After Amputation · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 29Building a New Version of Normal What happens when the life you want to return to no longer works the way you remember it? After amputation, we are often told that we can get…
- Adaptive Fitness Without Burnout · 26 min · Season 6 Episode 28Learning When to Push and When to Recover Have you ever started making progress with your fitness, only to be stopped by skin irritation, socket discomfort, phantom pain…
- The Thousand Step Challenge · 16 min · Season 6 Episode 27One Step at a Time: The Power of Small Steps Toward Big Goals Have you ever looked at a goal and felt overwhelmed before you even started? Whether you’re learning to walk with a…
- The Courage To Belong · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 26Feeling Alone After Amputation? Why Community Is Part of Healing Have you ever felt completely alone—even while surrounded by people who love you? For many amputees, loneliness…
- Phantom Pain: The Invisible Battle No One Sees · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 25Understanding the Types, Triggers, and Coping Strategies What if the most intense pain you’ve ever felt came from a part of your body that no longer exists? As an above-knee…
- Overcoming the Fear of Falling · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 24Reclaiming Independence What if the thing holding you back isn’t the possibility of falling, but the fear of what happens if you do? As amputees, we talk a lot about mobility…
- RPNI Study Discussion with University of Michigan · 56 min · Season 6 Episode 23Join the Movement for Above Knee Amputees What if joining the movement means becoming part of the future of amputee care? In this episode of the BAWarrior Podcast, I had the…
- 7 Lessons From 7 Years of Limb Loss · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 22What I Wish Every New Amputee Knew Seven years ago, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: to amputate my leg. Looking back now, I can honestly say that journey has…
- Even If… · 18 min · Season 6 Episode 21Rewriting Your Mindset After Loss What happens when something you spent years building disappears in a single moment? In this deeply personal episode of BAWarrior Podcast, I…
