Amy Oestreicher: Life Without a Stomach
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Amy Oestreicher is a normal teenage theater nerd... until the day her stomach explodes. Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for TEDx and RAINN, health advocate, survivor, award-winning actress, and playwright, eagerly sharing the lessons learned from trauma and has brought out the stories that unite us all through her writing, mixed media art, performance and inspirational speaking. As the writer, director and star of the Gutless & Grateful, her one-woman autobiographical musical, she's toured theatres across the country, earning accolades since it’s BroadwayWorld Award-nominated NYC debut. As a visual artist, her works have been featured in esteemed solo exhibitions, and her mixed media workshops emphasize creativity as an essential mindset.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that... |
| 0:36.8 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:56.7 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly. Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilley. And welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:02.8 | This week's stories from Amy Ostracker. It was recorded in July 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Hey, so first, I'm from Connecticut, and I took the subways here by myself, and I made it. |
| 1:19.9 | That was so cool. I love Brooklyn. So if anyone wants to, like, rent out of space eventually, |
| 1:25.3 | I mean, this is so much cooler than Connecticut. We don't |
| 1:28.2 | have these places here. Anyway, I'm Amy, and I'm going to tell you my story. I don't have a story |
| 1:36.5 | you hear every day. For a while, it was a story I couldn't understand, like the sick plot of a |
| 1:42.7 | psychological thriller. My doctors would call it a surgical |
| 1:47.6 | horror movie. When I was 18, I was your typical teenage musical theater ham, you know, |
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