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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.

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.

Ten Ways to Stay Financially Afloat After TBI

Rosemary knows that money cannot buy happiness, but she "could draw a stark line between anguish and peace of mind with dollar bills."

Internal Cry of the Caregiver

Rosemary Rawlins has heard it said that parenting is the hardest job, but she says she thinks caregiving is by far the hardest.

Futile Comparisons

As a caregiver for her husband who sustained a TBI, Rosemary learned that comparisons don’t serve us, they only make us bitter.

Reclaiming Health After a Brain Injury

A TBI can put everything on hold, but as time passed, Abby Maslin knew she had to help her injured husband — and herself — return to their previous healthy habits.

Rituals Promote Confidence

Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins talks about how rituals can help both caregivers and people with TBI move forward again.

May I Have Your Attention, Please?

Rosemary talks about how mindfulness can help finally put to bed the monsters we've created in our own minds.

Independence Day

Independence means different things for people with TBI — and their caregivers. Rosemary shares her thoughts.

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.

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?"

Oddball Symptoms

At first, Rosemary thought Hugh was kidding around with his food. She soon found out he wasn't; he was "pocketing," part of left neglect that can come with brain injury.

Nourish Your Noggin: Interview with Tina Sullivan

Rosemary knows that eating well under stress is hard. Sometimes cookies feel better than salad, but in the longterm, the opposite will prevail.

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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.