Sally Kohn: One of the big things for me that I experienced was what it was like to go through as a woman in a developing country's healthcare system. The only reason I survived is because my husband had the education and the money to walk across the street to a pharmacy and buy those materials, she says. Kohn: Like all psychological phenomena, it's a journey. What you feel comfortable with today is going to look totally different than what you feel comfortable about months from now or years from now.
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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