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Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury

Learn about the common sexual problems that can occur after a traumatic brain injury and ways to improve sexual functioning.

Life Out of Order: An Interview with Sally Laux

Rosemary talks with author and caregiver Sally Laux who lost her three brothers — two to death, one to a severe TBI.

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Starting or Nourishing Romantic Relationships After Brain Injury

Starting and Nourishing Romantic Relationships After Brain Injury

Every relationship has its ups and downs, but when a partner or spouse sustains a brain injury, other problems can arise, too.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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Intimate Relationships

Superman: Suzanne Laboy's Blog

In February 2013, police officer Peter Laboy was shot in the head. His wife, Suzanne, is chronicling the family's journey.

Banishing Caregiver's Remorse

Do you feel like no matter how much time you spend caregiving, you are not doing enough? Rosemary has felt that way, too, but realized she needed to do something about it.

Gifts

"Think for a moment about the best gift you have ever received. What made it so different from all the rest?" Rosemary shares one birthday present she will treasure forever.

Succession Planning

Rosemary talks about how planning for life’s unexpected emergencies is never easy or comfortable, but in the long run, it can save a lot of heartache.

Help for Couples After TBI

Rosemary's sister once told her, “There’s the truth we tell others, the truth we tell ourselves, and the truth we won’t even tell ourselves” It wasn't until she was in therapy after Hugh's crash that she fully understood her sister's words.

TBI and PTSD: Navigating the Perfect Storm

Often people talk about the effects of TBI or the consequences of PTSD as separate conditions — which they are. But for the person who is living with the dual diagnosis of TBI and PTSD, it can be hard to separate them.

Brain Injury and Grief: Fact or Fiction

Grief can come in many hues of gray — from the loss of a loved one to the effects of a life event like a brain injury.

Brain Wreck

Why did this wife take a photograph of her husband in his hospital bed after he sustained a severe brain injury?

Life Out of Order: A Story of Sibling Loss and Living with TBI

Sally Laux has lost her three brothers — two to death, one to a severe TBI — and yet, as she walks on a landscape of new textures and colors, she somehow continues to find meaning in her life.

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The Psychology of Clutter and Strategies to Help

Rosemary talks with Debbie Bowie, a professional organizer, about how minimizing clutter during and after a crisis — like a loved one's brain injury — can significantly decrease anxiety.

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Paper Trail or Trial?

Before Hugh’s injury, I loved getting mail in my mailbox. Afterward, I dreaded adding another pile to the piles of mail that permanently resided on my desk, office floor, and living room table.

Why Stories Matter

Cool It on the Acronyms! Making Your Military Skills Understandable on a Civilian Resume

Rosemary talks about giving her first caregiving talk at a brain injury conference and how friendships and opportunities burgeoned from there.

Bouncing Forward

What exactly is "resilience"? In her caregiving blog, Rosemary talks about this important ability as a way to "bounce forward" after brain injury.

The Importance of Focusing on a Healthy and Socially Engaged Lifestyle After TBI

For some people with TBI and their caregivers, life can feel painfully isolated. But trying to focus on one's strengths and a healthy and socially engaged lifestyle can help.

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Dealing with the Behavioral Complications of Brain Injury

Dr. Paul Aravich talks about how soldiers, veterans, and civilians can prevent and get treatment for the behavioral complications from TBI that can worsen with age.

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Why Is Brain Injury and Aging So Understudied?

So why are issues of aging, longevity, and the ability to be vulnerable to or resist the diseases of age with a disability like TBI so understudied?

An Interview with Dr. Julian Bailes

CTE has been getting a lot of press — the subconcussive blows, the development of CTE — where do you think this all comes into concern for youth contact sports? Does it really start in these younger kids?

Meet Rosemary

Rosemary Rawlins never planned on being a caregiver. No one does. But the afternoon her husband was hit while riding his bicycle, she was catapulted into her new role.