Jessica E Taylor age 74 years young.
"Age is only a number" (Oprah)
Jessica Elizabeth Taylor is the daughter of the late Gordie Taylor, a Scottish actor and musician. She was a professional actress and an award winning Irish dancer during her childhood years.
She is the founder of NEW BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS.
Brain-related illness costs 1.3 trillion dollars
in the U.S... annually. The lifetime cost for just one person surviving a
severe injury can reach $4 million. Unfortunately, 41 percent of
head-injured people live below the poverty line, and only one in twenty
receive the rehabilitation they require. The Federal government spends
less than $3 per brain-injured survivor on Traumatic Brain Injury
research and Services.
A RAND study reports that nearly 20% of
military service members who have returned from Iraq and
Afghanistan–320, 000 and still counting – report symptoms of traumatic
stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half
have sought treatment. Nineteen percent have suffered various degrees of
brain injuries.
Jessica's story, FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH, is giving A B I survivors 'hope and inspiration' throughout the world. She wrote it so that head and brain injury survivors do not have to feel alone as she herself did after her injury in 1969. Her story is also one for the general public
and has all the ingredients for a major screen film.
. “After receiving a copy of Jessica’s book I started to read it immediately and was unable to put it down. I laughed, I cried, I wanted to jump up and down and scream..”FINALLY…!!! SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME!!!. It was as though Jessica had literally crawled into my body and life and was describing in exact detail, everything I was feeling and had been trying to express for the last three years of my life! It has been a very trying and difficult time for me in many areas of my life. Jessica has inspired and given me hope.”Kathryn S Vause. Utah
Please go to the BOOK link for reviews.
Listen to the beautiful song 'Feel The Way That I do,' Kenny Holliday's gift to Jessica. Holliday composed the song as a result of reading Jessica's story,'From Tragedy to Triumph'.
This website was constructed by head injured survivors.
