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Separate Beds, Separate Lives

"I miss having a husband, a best friend ... I may be married, but I don't have a husband. I have a roommate."

How Deep Can You Change?

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

Do You Need an Empathectomy?

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."

A Natural Way to Restore the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Rosemary talks with Electra Liatos, a certified massage therapist, whose "fingers of love" have done just as much healing for Hugh and Rosemary as any other medicine.

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.

Brain Wreck

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

War-Torn Marriage: Family Shattered by TBI, PTSD Picks Up Pieces

The breaking point came when Sandra Rivera found their 9-year-old son backed against a wall with his arms over his face, shielding himself from her husband’s screaming.

Never Would I Have Believed...

Looking back over the 10 years since her husband sustained a severe TBI, Rosemary realizes what she has learned and how she has grown.

To Love What Is

“On a moonless summer night my husband fell nine feet from a sleeping loft to the floor and did not die.”

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A Hard Chance

A love story — before and after a devastating brain injury.

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In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

For Lee Woodruff, that phone call was like being back on the Tower of Terror: "It feels as if speed, motion, light, and time literally freeze."

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