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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.

Mike's Story

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.” September 4, 1982 was the day Mike “Pedal Monster” Heikes left his caterpillar life forever and began his wild adventure as someone who survived a TBI.

Live the Synonym

TBI Blogger Kara Swanson knows that "life cannot be perfect ... but it CAN, however, be perfect for you."

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Remembering Who You Are

Sarah Kishpaugh rediscovers her feisty sense of humor, which got temporarily buried in the maelstrom after her husband's TBI.

The Power of Mountain Pose — and Beyond

The Power of Mountain Pose â€” and Beyond

Janna Leyde, writer, yoga teacher, and daughter of a father with severe TBI, asks: "So how do we reconnect the mind and body? How do we find ourselves in the now?"

Is TBI a Laughing Matter?

As Rosemary knows, laughter is a natural anti-depressant, an anti-anxiety fix, a shot of oxygen, and a muscle relaxer … and, best of all, it doesn’t require a prescription.

Creativity in Caregiving

Loving wife and teacher Abby Maslin uses her creativity and teaching skills to help her husband recover from a severe TBI.

Life Out of Order: An Interview with Sally Laux

Rosemary talks with author and caregiver Sally Laux who lost her three brothers — two to death, one to a severe TBI.

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Superman: Suzanne Laboy's Blog

In February 2013, police officer Peter Laboy was shot in the head. His wife, Suzanne, is chronicling the family's journey.

What Does It Mean to Survive?

"Life and living is the very definition of surviving. It is what the living do. Definitions are meant to change. Able to change. For the brain injured, begging to change. What does it mean to you to have survived?"

Life Out of Order: A Story of Sibling Loss and Living with TBI

Sally Laux has lost her three brothers — two to death, one to a severe TBI — and yet, as she walks on a landscape of new textures and colors, she somehow continues to find meaning in her life.

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Welcome to My Caregiving Blog

"I never planned to be a caregiver. I don’t think many people do ... " Read the first entry of our new caregiving blog by Rosemary Rawlins.

A Crash Too Late

Seven years after having to leave her beloved sport of alpine ski racing, Lesley LeMasurier shares her story and sage advice.

Rise and Shine

An excerpt from a stunning book about what it means to return to live after a near-death experience.

Fighting the "TBI Wars": New Alternatives for TBI Survivors

In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway wrote, “The world breaks us all, then after, some are strong at the broken places.”

What Is Your It?

"It" is the recipient of all of your best.What is your "it"?

Bring on the Steeple Chase!

"For the brain injured, for anyone needing to restart their lives after all of their normal has been stripped, the Olympics provide a serious, wonderful, hopeful dose of what is possible in each of us."

Locked In

Have you ever dreamt that you were terrified, you screamed, but nothing came out? Imagine you are paralyzed, too. You can’t shield your face with your hands or run away, but you see, hear, and understand everything coming at you.