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Acceptance

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."

Should You Disconnect For a Happier Holiday?

Everything about the holidays screams HAPPY. And when you are feeling many things, but happy isn’t one of them, you can be drawn into despair.

Where Yoga Meets Brain Injury: A Practice to Calm Anxiety

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."

8 Things a Veteran Wants Their Mental Health Counselor to Know

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.

Life After Brain Injury — Watching Out for Rogue Waves

Life After Brain Injury â€” Watching Out for Rogue Waves

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."

When the Dust Finally Settles: Strategies for the Long-Term Caregiver

When the Dust Finally Settles â€¦ Strategies for the Long-Term Caregiver

Learn from this father's experience with the "twists, stumbles, set-backs, and wild-goose chases" of a having a TBI in the family.

I Am Disabled

Saying "I am disabled" was an unexpected admission for David Grant, which brought about unexpected emotion.

Can We Find One Hundred Ways to Beat Stress?

"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.

Predictably Unpredictable

"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.

The Not-So-Secret Confessions of the Caregiver

Abby says that sometimes we wish others could read our minds, but the only real option is to stay honest with the people in our lives.

Get a Group, Get a Life!

In his TBI support group, David Grant learned that problems carried alone are problems doubled, while problems shared are problems cut in half.

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.

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.