Brain aneurysms don’t wait for a good time. Erin Dohan and Colleen Fahey each survived one, then spent years finding their way back to a life worth living. This September, for Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month, they’re both becoming published authors, turning what they survived into books other survivors can hold onto. Two TBF ambassadors, two new books, and one reason for writing them: so nobody else has to feel as alone as they once did.
Colleen Fahey
Colleen M. Fahey survived a brain aneurysm and brain bleed in 2021, then spent a long stretch afterward relearning how to live. She’s shared what that recovery actually looked like ever since, as a speaker, an educator, and a TBF ambassador, because she knows how much it helps to hear from someone who’s been through it.
This September, timed to Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month, she’s releasing The Healing Ahead Journal, a guided companion for recovery. It has space to track medications and appointments, prompts for the foggy days when even a checkmark counts as progress, and pages built to notice how far you’ve come after a day, a week, a month, six months, a year. Caregivers and family are welcome in its pages too.
Colleen is also the author of Healing Ahead, a memoir that follows her own recovery alongside the stories of other brain aneurysm survivors she met through TBF, expected out later this fall. A dollar from every copy sold, of either book, goes back to TBF.
Learn more about Colleen & her story here:
Pre-orders are available at: https://linktr.ee/ColleenFahey
Erin Dohan
Erin Dohan was twenty-seven when a brain aneurysm nearly killed her. She thought the worst was behind her once she survived it. What followed instead were five years of relentless medical battles, and eventually, the courage to put the truth into words. Erin is celebrating her book with a launch party on Saturday, September 26th, from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois, and everyone is invited to help her mark the occasion.
Details and tickets are available now: https://thebeefoundation.org/event/erin-dohans-book-launch/
Learn more about the book, or preorder your copy, at ErinDohan.com.
Congratulations, Erin and Colleen
Colleen and Erin didn’t just survive brain aneurysms, they turned around and handed the rest of us something to hold onto. That’s what Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month is supposed to be about: real stories, told by the people who lived them, reaching the next person who needs to hear that recovery is possible. TBF is proud beyond measure to call them ambassadors.
Pre-order their books and help two survivors turn their hardest years into someone else’s hope.
