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BrainLine blogger Janna Leyde writes about how, with some help from Jimmy Buffett, she learned to accept the fact that life doesn't always work out as planned.

"Setbacks stink ... but I recognize that setbacks are a natural part of the TBI landscape," says BrainLine blogger Abby Maslin.

Before his TBI, Janna Leyde's father was passionate about waterskiing. Janna thought that love was lost, but she discovered there was still hope.

One of the guiding principles of my life as a wife of a husband with TBI is to “explore everything,” says Rosemary Rawlins.

Can you bike along the same street where you were hit by a car? BrainLine blogger David Grant talks about when he first got back on his bike post-TBI.

For Janna Leyde, her father, and her other students, yoga is often "the path away from the unfairness"

"After Hugh's crash, I felt as if I had lost my emotional North Star, the connection to my alter ego, and the person who knew me best," says Rosemary Rawlins.

Caregiver Abby Maslin used her background as a teacher to help her husband recover — with flashcards, books on tape, and singing in the car with their little boy.

"I learned that 'trying was a form of therapy,' even if Hugh’s trying felt so exasperating to me that I wanted to bang my head on the steps!"

Abby talks about how she realized that her husband's recovery was not going to be black or white, whole or unwhole, perfect or not perfect.

David Grant knows that a brain injury is just about the last thing you think about until it becomes the only thing you think about.