Love My Detour TEDx Speaker

Amy Oestreicher

Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright. As the creator of “Gutless & Grateful,” her BroadwayWorld-nominated one-woman autobiographical musical, she’s toured theatres nationwide, along with a program combining mental health advocacy, sexual assault awareness and Broadway Theatre for college campuses and international conferences. To celebrate her own “beautiful detour”, Amy created the #LoveMyDetour campaign, to help others cope in the face of unexpected events. “Detourism” is also the subject of her TEDx and upcoming book, My Beautiful Detour, available December 2017. She’s contributed to over 70 notable online and print publications, and her story has appeared on NBC’s TODAY, CBS, Cosmopolitan, among others.

Here’s some of what we talked about:

• Was molested at age 15
• Had her stomach deteriorate by age 18
• Learned to make her own hope
• 27 surgeries
• Focus on being present
• Gratitude
• Started a caulk board to express feelings after her coma
• Set goals even in the hospital
• Looked to come out of the darkness transformed
• Surround yourself with positive stories
• Sexual assault prevention show
• How she got her first speaking gig
• started sending letters to colleges to offer to speak
• Tell them what you have to offer
• The power of your story
• How to create your speaking presentations

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