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How Can Caregivers Help Their Spouses Address Problems That The Spouse Doesn't See?

Dr. Emilie Godwin shares a strategy that caregivers can use to help spouses address challenges that the spouse isn't aware of.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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Caregiving & Brain Injury

Family Concerns

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How Can Educating Families About Common Impacts of Brain Injuries Help Them Heal?

Dr. Emilie Godwin talks about the difference it can make when a family realizes the changes they are going through after a brain injury are not unusual.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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Caregiving & Brain Injury

Family Concerns

How Do Family Roles and Responsibilities Change After a Brain Injury?

Dr. Emilie Godwin talks about the ways family roles and responsibilities can change after a brain injury.

Emilie Godwin, PhD

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Caregiving & Brain Injury

Family Concerns

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Why Is It Important for Families to Understand the "New Normal" After a Brain Injury?

Dr. Jeffrey Kreutzer explains why helping families understand what's normal after brain injury can help everyone adjust to their new reality.

Jeffrey Kreutzer, PhD

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Caregiving & Brain Injury

Family Concerns

Why Is There So Much Uncertainty and Anxiety After a Family Member Sustains a Brain Injury?

Uncertainty and Anxiety in the Family After TBI

When it comes to brain injury, it's difficult to make predictions about a person's recovery. This uncertainty, unfortunately, creates a lot of anxiety for families.

Jeffrey Kreutzer, PhD

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Anxiety & Stress

Caregiving & Brain Injury

Family Concerns

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How Does Ambiguous Loss Impact a Person with a Brain Injury?

"When I look in the mirror I see the same person who was there before, but when I go to work, I just can’t do the job the same way."

Jeffrey Kreutzer, PhD

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Behavioral & Emotional Symptoms

Caregiving & Brain Injury

Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

What Is the Best Way Caregivers Can Help with Memory Problems After Brain Injury?

Dr. David Arciniegas shares the most important way family and friends can help somebody with a memory problem after brain injury.

David Arciniegas, MD

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Caregiving & Brain Injury

Memory Problems

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The Hike

My life as the caregiver and mother of a brain injury survivor is similar to being on a challenging hike. You gather the proper gear and feel adequately prepared. You begin the hike with an overcomer’s attitude, looking forward to moving through the miles...

You are Not a Burden

Brain injury has changed you. It has broken you, rebuilt you, strengthened you, and humbled you. Sometimes it does all of this in the span of one day. I don’t know that I have the words to make this journey easier for you, but I can offer this...

Sitting With the Suffering

Nicole Bingaman Beautiful Truth April 2018

When brain injury comes into a family, it is an unwelcome guest, sitting at the table every single night. In time, you have to learn to accept the guest, and what the presence of it means. You can’t just pretend it isn’t there, and you can’t act like you know the totality of all that is involved.

Loosening the Caregiver's Grip

Are you a Controlling and Possessive Caregiver?

It happens slowly, like that metaphorical frog you’ve heard about. Possessiveness and controlling behavior in TBI caregivers is something that creeps up on you, and I suspect it is common — not because people are trying to be annoying, but because they care so much and want to see that their loved one is treated well in every respect.

Beautiful Truth

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to share with a group of caregivers and survivors at a rehab. From the moment they entered the gym, I sensed their exceptional spirits. This was not surprising, as I have discovered the brain injury community to be comprised of the finest people you will ever encounter.

The Many Faces of Brain Injury and Grief

As the shock began to fade, it felt like a curtain lifted, and I was cast in a play with all the characters, one by one revealing how they were affected. Amidst their grief, they wondered if I would ever laugh again, have date nights or travel.

Pity and Friendship after TBI

We’ve all see that face. The well-meaning face of pity: the downturned brows and lips, the misty eyes. After Hugh’s TBI, I seldom met a friend or acquaintance who did not flash this expression at me every time we met. My daughters felt it, too. The funny thing is, we did not want pity. We’d had our fill of it in the ICU.

I’m Sorry Your Life Got Ruined

“I’m sorry your life got ruined,” a well-meaning friend sympathized one day. Her words landed like bricks. Wait, I thought to myself, was she right? Was my life really ruined? Was I the last to know of my own obvious fate?

The Art of Letting Go

I’ve kept in touch with a handful of healthcare professionals I had met in the early days of Taylor’s ordeal. These people not only taught me about the physical effects of brain injury and ways to participate in Taylor’s care, but they also taught me another invaluable lesson: the art of letting go.

Is Caregiving a Burden?

The truth is, all family members are both a source of joy and a burden at one time or another. That’s what family life is: the art of weaving webs of joy between strands of pain is what creates the intricate fabric of family love. It’s not the people in our care who burden us; it’s our anger over circumstances...

Aphasia: 10 Conversational Tips for Caregivers

Caregiver tips for living with aphasia.

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What Stephen Hawking Taught Us About Living with Disability

Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned scientist who recently passed away, had a brilliant mind that was trapped inside a paralyzed body, and I could not stop thinking about how the opposite is often the case with traumatic brain injury.

The #1 Way Caregivers Can Help with Memory Problems After Brain Injury

Dr. David Arciniegas shares the most important way family and friends can help somebody with a memory problem after brain injury.

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Memory Problems: When Am I Going to Get Better?

Memory Problems After Brain Injury: When Am I Going to Get Better?

Dr. David Arciniegas explains why recovery predictions are so difficult to make and what he looks at to predict where recovery is likely to go.

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When Memory Issues After Brain Injury Impact Other Health Problems

People with brain injury may have other health problems and memory problems affect their ability to manage their health. Two experts share strategies for managing these scenarios.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

How do we get to new places within ourselves? And how do we bring our survivors to the places that seem impossible? For the climber, it is not always about reaching the top. Sometimes, it is just about the climb.

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Best of BrainLine: Caregivers Helping Caregivers

In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month we've gathered some of the most powerful caregiver content we've ever presented.

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Life Without Silver Linings

When my husband suffered a catastrophic brain injury at age 29, I rarely appreciated being told that God had a plan for us. I certainly didn’t want to be coached to keep my eye on the prize or to search for those silver linings. I wanted to cry out in pain and to sit in it for a moment. I simply wanted it to be what it was: hard. And I wanted that to be OK with everyone else too.