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Grieving Your Loss and Loving Your "New" Children

Nicole Wight talks about the wrenching pain and difficulty of accepting that her kids would never again be the same.

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Not Just a Special-Needs Mom

When you bring normalcy to your own life, the kids can have more normalcy, too, says Nicole Wight.

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The Moment Michael Wight "Wakes Up" for the First Time

Nicole Wight talks about when her son first re-emerged after his brain injury while in OT.

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The Car Crash that Changed the Wight Family

Nicole Wight talks about the day of the car crash that killed her mother and left her two young children with brain injuries.

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Renewed Gratitude

BrainLine's blogger Abby Maslin asks: Can you be mostly grateful but still wish this terrible thing would go away?

A Bridge to Thanksgiving

"On Thanksgiving, we are called to look around the table at those we love with new eyes."

Seriously, It's Not That Serious!

"One way to take a problem and blow it away like the fuzz off a dandelion is to laugh at it, and if it’s too traumatic and serious to laugh about, laugh at everything surrounding it, or at yourself."

Shining the Spotlight on Kids Who Care

Learn about the 1.4 million “invisible caregivers” — children who help provide substantial care to a family member while trying to be successful students.

Living with TBI and PTSD: Military Caregivers Share Their Best Advice

Military Spouses and Family Members Share Their Best Advice About Caring for Service Members and Veterans Living with TBI and PTSD

Few people are more qualified to offer military caregivers advice and encouragement than others who have walked in their shoes. Hear advice and thoughts from TBI caregivers.

Caregiver to Caregiver: Words of Advice and Hope

From Caregiver to Caregiver: Words of Advice and Encouragement

Few people are more qualified to offer caregivers advice and encouragement than others who have walked in their shoes. Hear advice and thoughts from TBI caregivers.

Treating Each Other with Love

In this video, Rosemary talks about the importance of respect, open communication — and laughter — all key ingredients for healing and loving relationships.

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Are You Holding Back?

As a caregiver, Rosemary believes that "it’s not speaking the truth that’s problematic; it’s the way we speak the truth."

Five Ways TBI Caregivers Can Enhance Environmental Enrichment and Why They Should

Can increased physical, social, and cognitive stimulation during recovery from brain injury help outcome? Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins thinks so.

Listening to Advice Doesn't Help Unless You Take it!

Listening to Advice Doesnâ€™t Help Unless You Take it!

“You need to take care of yourself.” For a while after Hugh's injury, when Rosemary heard those words she wanted to scream, cry, and stamp her feet!

Pebbles of Progress

The key to making progress — in TBI recovery or toward any goal in life — is to take it one day at a time, stick with it, and celebrate each step along the way.

Reinventing the Family

Abby Maslin shares her thoughts on how her husband's brain injury is helping them become even better parents than they could have imagined.

Caregivers Need Support, Too

Dr. Herman Lukow talks about how people with TBI have a platoon of doctors and therapists to help in their recovery, but the caregiver has virtually no one.

Daughter Love

Janna Leyde talks about a big puzzle piece that fell into place when her injured father realized he had to love himself in order to love others more fully.

The Purest Joy

Rosemary shares a story of when she and her daughters first knew that their beloved husband/father was still with them.

5th Alive Day

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner talks about her husband's fifth "alive day" — the day an IED ripped his legs apart and left him with a TBI and PTSD. The day he nearly died.

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We Can't Socialize Anymore

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner talks about missing how she and her husband used to be able to socialize before his TBI and PTSD.

Benefit Halted

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner talks about the challenges of getting consistent combat-related compensation payment for her injured husband.

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No More Drama

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner talks about when "the post-traumatic stress presented itself, we were floating in a thick sludge of constant drama."

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History, Not Repeating Itself

Caregiver Cheryl Gansner remembers the feelings of walking on eggshells because of her husband's TBI and PTSD.

Communicating a Way Forward

Learn why caregiver Abby Maslin calls aphasia "the unexpected homewrecker," and what she did to help.