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From There to Here

So how exactly did I get from there to here? From complete ruination of the human will to thrive to living a life worthwhile? The answer is complicated, and our path was a winding one, but in retrospect, a few things have proven to be game-changers.

Life after Brain Injury — Getting Back to Business

There is a nice thing about learning to live after a brain injury. Once you realize you can live life again, most everything else seems like a cakewalk.

Riding For Resilience To Help Others After TBI

Recovery from a TBI involves personal commitment and a tremendous amount of time, along with contributions from family and friends. The most important part in most of these cases begins with caregivers – whom I consider angels.

How to Be Successful When Making a Phone Call Having a Brain Injury

Simple things become a challenge after a brain injury. During the extremely challenging years of my recovery, here is what I did to help myself get through a phone call and accomplish what I needed to do.

Riding the TBI Pendulum

A couple of weeks with a respite from the worst of brain injury symptoms does not mean that I am abruptly recovering. It simply means that I’ve been able to string together a decent number of tolerable days.

Life after Brain Injury — Learning to Roll with It

Life after Brain Injury â€“ Learning to Roll with It

I still have bad days. By looking at me, you’d never know that it was a “bad TBI day.” Today happens to be one of those days. Let me tell you a bit more about a bad TBI day and why a bad TBI day is different than it was a few years ago.

The Gift of a Head Injury

A brain injury can be a precious gift. The existential crisis that more than likely occurs when you have an injured brain is a catalyst that can change your life positively forever.

Conquering the Great Divide

I am one person who experienced a rather extreme trauma. I will always look at my life as “before and after.” I deem that to be a healthy mindset, one shared by most anyone who has lived through a life-altering event. But I’m tired of a mindset that separates me from the rest of humanity.

Living with Concussion the Natural Way

Rachel Derrington is not the same person she was before her brain swelled up and changed her attitude, priorities and sense of self. She is better. Rachel shares the four things that turned her from an survivor to a thriver.

31 Strategies for Living with Brain Injury

Caregiver blogger, Melissa Johnson, shares 31 tips and strategies she uses to help her husband cope with his brain injury in a more effective manner.

Survival Tips for the Holidays with a Brain Injury

With an injured brain, the holiday season can burden us with more fatigue, more stress and perhaps some sad emotions. We will be able to enjoy ourselves much more if we prepare ourselves for the holiday season. Here are some tips that work for me since my brain injury.

Life After Brain Injury: More Is Not Better!

After a brain injury more, of many things, is not better. It is not better to see more things around you; it is not better to be given more choices; it is not better to have more things to do...

The Evolution of Life after Brain Injury

I can see progress. I am not who I was before my accident. I am also not who I was in early recovery. In a few years, I will not be who I am today, as the healing will continue.

'What Did You Say?' Hearing Loss and Brain Injuries

â€˜What Did You Say?â€™ Hearing Loss and Brain Injuries

It’s no surprise that some symptoms of brain injury include headaches and memory problems. But hearing loss may also accompany a TBI, either because the injury damages the ear or because there is damage to the part of the brain that processes sound.

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Kicking My Self-Esteem to the Curb

When I write, I write about what is happening in the moment, about what my reality is today. And today, well today I’m just not feeling the TBI love.

Special Operations Chief Jake Young: Training service dogs to help veterans like himself

As part of his treatment plan for multiple traumatic brain injuries sustained in combat and training, Jake now trains service dogs to help veterans like himself.

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Cycling to Recovery After Brain Injury

This is not a ride for the faint of heart. Yet one mile at a time, I have proven so many to be wrong.

No Such Thing as Fair

In the world of brain injury, the closest we will ever get to fairness is achieving balance. Some days you get what you need and other days you don’t.

The Afterlife

It can take years to accept a loved one’s afterlife, and it may take a decade. I’m not talking about life after death; I’m talking about life after a family member’s brain injury.

The Magic of Moments

The interesting thing about brain injury is being left with a before and after—lifetimes separated by that one moment that changed everything. Last week Nicole and her family set out on an old, but once again new, adventure...

Reaching Back in Time — a Message to My Younger Self

Reaching Back in Time â€“ a Message to my Younger Self

Summer is such a fun time of year. In fact, it’s my favorite season. What better time of year than to talk about suicide?

Letter From the Other Side: Return from a Traumatic Brain Injury

Letter From the Other Side â€” Return from a Traumatic Brain Injury

The Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page writes about rebuilding his life after a traumatic brain injury.

9 Tips to Starting Your Brain Injury Recovery Process

9 Tips to Starting Your TBI Recovery Process

If you feel like something is wrong, keep pushing for testing or have your loved one push for you. Think of your general practitioner as a gatekeeper to get you to people with the real expertise...

Are You Shocked by Brain Injury? That's Not a Bad Thing

Are You Shocked by Brain Injury? Thatâ€™s Not a Bad Thing

My exposure to brain injury has been a journey in education and life lessons. Connected to the brain injury community by circumstance, coincidence, and the universe speaking (loudly) for the past few years, I’ve learned some things.

I Can Fix You

It took a few minutes to go over my medical history as we sat in his exam room. He took a few notes, listened to our story, took a few more notes, and asked a question or two. He then looked us square in the eyes and uttered four words. “I can fix you.”