Emma Gee, PO Box 85, Melbourne (2025)

11/11/2025

“Relearning to speak has been beyond tough!
“Yes...I entered this profession by teaching myself how to speak!

But I love it!

To advocate, voice, empower others through my
lived experience
is my passion!"

Book me to speak at your event @
www.emma-gee.com

11/11/2025

Feeling a bit deflated after trialling prototype #6 of my custom eye patch — designed to replace my nightly gladwrap routine (yep, that’s been my life 😅).
After losing eyelid closure on my right side from facial palsy, I’ve been on a mission to protect my cornea long-term. The incredible prosthetic team at Royal Melbourne Hospital have been endlessly patient, creative, and kind through every tweak and test.
But today, it feels like another dead end — and it’s so hard to know when to stop pushing, or when to just rest. Still, I’m holding on to gratitude, for progress and persistence. 💛

10/11/2025

✨ Feeling so grateful to collaborate with staff and other representatives!
Together, we’re exploring how to embed lived experience content meaningfully and authentically into the Occupational Therapy curriculum 💬
It’s inspiring to see real voices shaping future learning and practice — creating a more connected, compassionate profession 🌿💚

05/11/2025

Trying to Multitask in Rehab
Today’s rehab session was a full workout — not just for my body, but for my brain! My physiotherapist and I decided to time a lap around my local creek. Sounds simple enough, right? Except I was juggling about five things at once: walking with my aid, focusing on my posture, coordinating my limbs, keeping up with the terrain, watching the weather… and battling a rebellious bra strap that refused to stay put.
It took me right back to the early days after my stroke — when I was learning to walk again with a frame and couldn’t even swat away sticky flies because it would mean letting go of my only support.
Multitasking is so much harder than it looks. The everyday things most people do without a second thought can take enormous concentration and effort during rehab. Every step, every movement, every little adjustment is a reminder of how far I’ve come — and how much unseen strength recovery really takes.

05/11/2025

💪 The Art (and Chaos) of Multitasking in Rehab
Today’s rehab session was a full workout — not just for my body, but for my brain! My physiotherapist and I decided to time a lap around my local creek. Sounds simple enough, right? Except I was juggling about five things at once: walking with my aid, focusing on my posture, coordinating my limbs, keeping up with the terrain, watching the weather… and battling a rebellious bra strap that refused to stay put.
It took me right back to the early days after my stroke — when I was learning to walk again with a frame and couldn’t even swat away sticky flies because it would mean letting go of my only support.
Multitasking is so much harder than it looks. The everyday things most people do without a second thought can take enormous concentration and effort during rehab. Every step, every movement, every little adjustment is a reminder of how far I’ve come — and how much unseen strength recovery really takes.

30/10/2025

Today’s reminder: The power of bookending my day 🧠💪
As a stroke survivor, rehab never really ends—but how I structure it makes all the difference.
This morning I started my day with a recumbent trike ride before work 🚴‍♂️ and finished it with my physio, walking without my frame and Love Island practising steps in my local park.
It’s not easy? pain, mobility, and fatigue are always part of the journey...but bookending my day with movement and purpose helps me stay grounded, physically and emotionally.
Small wins. Daily effort. Big impact. 💫

29/10/2025

It's OT Week 2025 and I thought Id write a quick blog about the profession. Read it here at https://emma-gee.com/ot-week-2025-occ…herapy-in-action/

29/10/2025

✨ What an inspiring day! ✨
So grateful to have attended the Annual Stroke Awards today on World Stroke Day. It was truly amazing to be amongst so many incredible stroke survivors and their phenomenal supporters — I’m in absolute awe. 💜
As a stroke survivor of 20 years, I’m deeply humbled to be part of such an empowering community and to witness so many well-deserved awards celebrating expertise, resilience, courage, and lived experience.
Congratulations 🙌 to everyone recognized today — and to all who continue to raise awareness, support others, and show what strength really looks like. 💪💫

20/10/2025

Hi everyone.

Each month, the Stroke Foundation are giving away a book written by a survivor of stroke.

This month, it's Emma Gee’s Reinventing Emma.

Yep - my book!

They write on their Enable Platform:

"Emma is an acclaimed international speaker and an author. She is an expert in person-centred care and resilience.Emma was only 24 years old when has a debilitating stroke and is left in a coma. Nine days later she wakes and starts to come to terms with a future that has changed forever. Emma shares with readers her journey of recovery through eyes of a health care professional who becomes the patient. With tenacity and determination, Emma faces the challenge of her life. What she ends up discovering is new purpose and meaning.

Twenty years into her recovery, Emma is passionate to share her dual insights as a stroke survivor and Occupational Therapist to empower others. She aims to do this through her writing and lived experience consultancy business. Reinventing Emma is used as a vehicle to relay my own dual insights and reach many others from fellow stroke survivors, providers to family members. In fact, many people with lived experience of stroke and health professionals are recommended to read Reinventing Emma in their training and journeys.

Read more about Emma Gee’s journey and writing of Reinventing Emma on Emma’s website: https://emma-gee.com/

Sincere thanks to Emma for being part of the EnableMe book giveaway.

Like to win this book? Email strokeconnect@strokefoundation.org.au

This giveaway is open to Australian residents only. Sorry to our international friends!

To read a free chapter or purchase Emma's book, visit her website https://emma-gee.com/the-book/

07/08/2025

Do you know that it's National Stroke Week? An entire week that aims to encourage the community to know the F.A.S.T. (Face, Arms, Speech and Time) signs of stroke so that they can save a life.

Stroke Foundation recommends the F.A.S.T. test as an easy way to remember the most common signs of stroke. Using the F.A.S.T. test involves asking these simple questions:
Face Check their face. Has their mouth drooped?
Arms Can they lift both arms?
Speech Is their speech slurred? Do they understand you?
Time Is critical. If you see any of these signs call 000 straight away.

Having a stroke myself is something that I have grappled with now for 20 years. The physical and emotional impacts are beyond huge. Knowing the signs of stroke could've prevented this. How can you change your life or others by learning the FAST signs?

07/08/2025

Have you or another experienced muscle stiffness or tightness after stroke?
This is called spasticity — and it can make everyday life harder.

I am working with the Stroke Foundation to improve stroke care and support for others.

To do this, we want to hear from people in Australia who:
✅ Have had a stroke or care for someone who has
✅ Have experienced muscle spasticity

💬 Share your experience through a short survey — or join a small, peer-led online focus group.

🔗 Complete the survey here https://lnkd.in/gjGSbiS8

📩 Questions? Contact Simone at srussell@strokefoundation.org.au

Your voice will make a HUGE difference!

Emma Gee

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