"It took me a long time for me to finally get to that point where I was like, Oh, no, there's some things that are still here," he said. "I think you're still in the early stages of this whole thing because you're going to do so many more incredible things with your life." He added: "My journey is to just kind of be present every day and feel like what I can potentially take away from this experience"
Rebecca Kaduru was driving home... then woke up in an ambulance. She'd been in involved in an accident and her face was smashed. Living in Uganda, she struggled to receive appropriate care for her injuries - making her healing process dishearteningly slow and painful.
It was then that Rebecca stumbled across an episode of The Happiness Lab about JR Martinez - an army veteran badly burned in Iraq. His story brought her comfort and the confidence to keep on her path to recovery. We hear about Rebecca's ordeal and introduce her to JR.
NEXT TIME: To give you a chance to hear the episode that inspired Rebecca, we'll republish it on The Happiness Lab feed.
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