The Resilience Sessions - Nerys Pearce and Tanni Grey-Thompson

The Resilience Sessions is a podcast series featuring compelling in-depth interviews, which bring to light life-changing and affirming experiences of Blesma veterans and the unknown personal struggles of celebrity guests who have fought to overcome hardship, including mental health difficulties, disability, devastating injury and bereavement.

This podcast series is created in association with The Drive Project, who work with Blesma to deliver Making Generation R. We have already helped over 50,000 young people and first responders through the Making Generation R campaign and have seen first-hand the positive impact these stories have on those who are struggling.

We hope that this podcast series will also provide moments of inspiration and strength to listeners. In this episode Former Paralympic athlete and crossbench Peer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson talks with Nerys Pearce, who served with the British Army before becoming paralysed from the chest down while back in the UK.

Tanni and Nerys discuss their upbringings, shared Welsh roots, and their mutual love of and commitment to sport. They talk about the everyday prejudice they can experience as wheelchair users, as well as the humour and resilience they have employed to deal with this. Both talk about the need to reflect on one’s achievements, and share lessons on how anyone can make change happen.