Learning by Accident

The key to making progress — in TBI recovery or toward any goal in life — is to take it one day at a time, stick with it, and celebrate each step along the way.

Deep change or slow death? Although studies show that most people choose slow death, Rosemary talks about power of embracing change.

Do you feel your loved one’s pain and sense of loss like it’s happening to you? Maybe, like Rosemary, you need an "empathectomy."

Rosemary Rawlins has heard it said that parenting is the hardest job, but she says she thinks caregiving is by far the hardest.

"It’s my personal belief that the quality of fulltime care someone with TBI receives during the first two years post injury has the potential to greatly impact outcome."

Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins talks about how rituals can help both caregivers and people with TBI move forward again.

Rosemary talks about how mindfulness can help finally put to bed the monsters we've created in our own minds.

"How can a caregiver tap into a sense of peace?" Here are a few strategies that worked for Rosemary.

Hugh taught the girls how to walk, to ride a bike, to swim and surf. When a car struck him just days after their fourteenth birthday, he slept in a coma after two emergency brain surgeries in three days. One word woke him up: Daddy.

As Rosemary knows, laughter is a natural anti-depressant, an anti-anxiety fix, a shot of oxygen, and a muscle relaxer … and, best of all, it doesn’t require a prescription.

Traumatic brain injury makes quirky seem quirkier, especially when a person is in the initial months of recovery. Rosemary learned that Hugh's loss of his sense of smell came with both dangers and quirkiness.

During Hugh's recovery, Rosemary heard many family and friends say, "Let me know what I can do to help." They meant it, but here Rosemary shares five offers caregivers would be grateful to hear — and accept.