LIVING PROOF TBI COACHING
You Don’t Have to Navigate Life After Brain Injury Alone
Brain injury recovery can leave survivors and families searching for answers long after the hospital stay ends. Vincent A. Lanci combines more than 13 years of lived recovery experience with practical tools that help survivors and the people supporting them understand fatigue, communication challenges, changing relationships, and the difficult process of rebuilding a fulfilling life.
TBI Recovery Expert • Inspirational Keynote Speaker • Author • Advocate
Does Any of
This Feel
Familiar?
You may be wondering why recovery still feels so difficult when everyone expects life to be “back to normal.”
Perhaps fatigue controls the day. Communication has become harder. Emotions arrive faster than expected. Roles within the family have changed, and the people involved do not always understand what the survivor is experiencing.
These challenges do not mean that you are failing. They mean that you may need a clearer way to understand what is happening—and a practical plan for moving forward.
Why Living Proof TBI Coaching Can Help
Coaching is built around the realities that survivors and families face between medical appointments and throughout long-term recovery. The goal is not to promise a perfect recovery. It is to help you understand your challenges, communicate more effectively, and identify practical next steps.
• Lived experience, not only theory
Coaching from a survivor who went from “may not make it” to rebuilding life, career, and purpose after a traumatic brain injury.
• Practical tools for daily life
Concrete systems for fatigue, memory, focus, and emotional regulation so survivors and families know what to do between medical appointments.
• From crisis to long‑term plan
Support that goes beyond the hospital and early rehab, focused on the chronic phase: identity, work, relationships, and a new version of “normal.”
• Built for both survivor and family
Coaching sessions that include (or consider) partners, parents, and caregivers, so everyone works from the same playbook instead of fighting different battles.
• Clear communication, less conflict
Scripts and coaching around how to talk about symptoms, limits, and needs so families reduce blow‑ups and misunderstandings at home.
• Story‑driven, hope‑driven
Using your own story and others’ TBI journeys to normalize setbacks, celebrate small wins, and keep you moving toward a future that feels worth rebuilding.
What Survivors and Professionals Say
“He also goes above and beyond in connecting with patients and group members.”
— Dr. Angelica Acree
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Tampa General Hospital
Dr. Acree has observed Vincent working with inpatient brain injury groups, community support groups, and individual brain injury survivors.
What Happens Next
A Simple First Step
- Tell Vincent a little about your situation and what you would like help with.
- Vincent will personally review your message and contact you to discuss your needs.
- Together, you will determine whether Living Proof TBI Coaching is the right fit and what the most helpful next step may be.
Clients who begin a coaching program also receive a signed copy of Vincent’s book, TBI Recovery.
Meet Vincent A. Lanci
Vincent A. Lanci is a traumatic brain injury survivor, author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and advocate.
Following a hit-and-run crash that left him in a coma, Vincent returned to the University of Tampa, earned his MBA, and was selected to deliver a commencement address. He later became an adviser to Tampa General Hospital’s Patient and Family Advisory Coalition and began traveling to the state Capitol to advocate for the brain injury community.
Today, Vincent uses the lessons of his recovery to help people understand the realities of life after TBI and respond to adversity with practical action.
His central message is simple: recovery is not about returning to the person you were. It is about learning how to build with the person you have become.
