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Finding acceptance after a brain injury isn't easy. "For a long while, I bucked against our reality. I found myself caught between what I had once known and an uncertain future. The in-between caused marked turmoil. As much as I didn’t want to accept Taylor’s brain injury as part of our lives, it is. As much as I wish it didn’t affect Taylor and our family … it does."
An accident happens. A brain injury rocks your world, and not in a good way. Fear rises like a tide, and soon enough, a tidal wave of anxiety. Janna offers a simple yoga practice to calm the "what ifs."
Working with any client can be challenging, but veterans can be especially difficult because of the warrior culture that they are used to. Here what veterans would like their mental health counselor to know before working with them.
Brainline blogger David Grant understands the "rogue waves" of emotion that come with a TBI. "Like their aquatic counterparts, they originate out of nowhere, offer a bit of emotional catastrophic damage, then recede, sometimes as quickly as they came."
"Caregiving is stress personified. It’s anticipatory stress, stress in the moment, and stress that feels never-ending," writes Rosemary Rawlins. Here she brainstorms some stress busters.
"The real eye-opener was how long it has taken me to realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train," says David Grant about recovering from his TBI.
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.
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.