Objective : Applied human becoming research method, intend to understand stroke patients’ lives and
pain by drawing the conflicts they get to experience. Methods : I conversed with 10 patients being
hospitalized after having a stroke once or twice for two months from September till October, 2013. I
collected data until I didn’t get any new or repeated episodes about the pain they experienced from the
stroke patients as the participants. The data collection and analysis were done according to the procedure of
Parse’s human becoming theory. Results : The pain that the stroke patients did experience included pain
resulted from their physical disability and social isolation, overcoming of difficulties through the
rehabilitation process, and also the process to find their lives full of vigor having hopes for their positive
changes. Though this pain may make the stroke patients helpless, it is a process that they re-create their
lives by overcoming hardships through self-transcendence. Conclusion : To stroke patients, it seems that
intervention with Occupational therapy will be very important in the process that they find energy and
helpless for their lives and also a new life.