Growing up, I was always strong-willed, determined, and ready to take on the world. I had big dreams and nothing was going to stand in my way of achieving them. I would have never imagined that suffering a traumatic brain injury would drastically alter not only my dreams but those fierce qualities that I had always carried with me. In one day, my life went from an upward trajectory to a slow downward spiral, until I found myself trying to pick up the pieces at rock bottom.