• Home
  • About Page
    • About Page
    • Resources Available
    • Testimonies and Endorsements
    • Publications, Honors and Radio Programs
    • Experiencing a second chance to live after a brain injury PowerPoint Presentation
    • Neuroplasticity, Learning and Relearning Skills/Skill Sets
    • Neuroplasticity Opening the Door to Hope Power Point Presentation
    • Neuroplasticity Video Demonstrations 2017
    • Neuroplasticity Video Demonstration 2016
    • Neuroplasticity Video Demonstration 2015
    • Neuroplasticity Video Demonstration 2014
    • Neuroplasticity Video Demostration 2013
  • Translate
  • 12 Peer Support Categories
  • 359 Video Presentations
    • 17 Short Slideshow Presentations
  • 10 Free eBooks
  • Organizations
    • The Global Brain Injury Peer Support Network

Second Chance to Live

Empowering the Individual, Not the Brain Injury

Empowering a Relationship with Myself and with Other People — Learning to Trust Part 9

May 12, 2009 by Second Chance to Live Leave a Comment

Empowering a Relationship with Myself and with other People

Please read each part of this series for context. Thank you. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 , Part 7, Part 8, Part 10

Denial had — in essence — blinded me from the truth — so that I could not see how my life had become unmanageable.

With my awareness, I did what was suggested and began looking for a sponsor — to guide me through the 12 suggested steps of recovery. Please read my article, Second Chance to Live and Action Steps. Someone who would become my mentor. Someone who would be willing to share what they learned as they worked through the 12 steps of recovery — with a sponsor. Someone who would help me to identify why my life had become unmanageable. Someone who could help me to find answers and solutions to empower my life — so that I could go and make it a good day.

Consequently, as I continued to attend support/recovery meetings I listened closely to what various members shared.

As I listened I began to respect and value what several of the men were sharing during the meetings. Consequently, I got up the courage and asked each of those men to sponsor me. My experience was such that of the men that I asked to be my sponsor no one could commit to being my sponsor — because of their schedules or because they were already sponsoring other men. I thanked those men and continued to look for a man to be my sponsor.

Note: As a rule, men sponsor men and women sponsor women.

As I continued to attend meetings and listen to what people shared, I decided to ask another man to be my sponsor. When I asked him to be my sponsor, he told me that he could be my temporary sponsor — as he had to travel every week with his job — and would not always be available to me. Because I respected his program of recovery I agreed and asked him to be my temporary sponsor. With time, that man became my permanent sponsor and a trusted friend.

Note: By asking someone to be a temporary sponsor the pressure of “commitment” is removed until both you and your sponsor feel comfortable with one another and a bond of trust has been established. Once the bond has been established and both of you feel comfortable with the relationship you can ask them to be your permanent sponsor.

With time I discovered that I could talk, trust and feel. Please read my article, Don’t Talk, Don’t Trust and Don’t Feel

And so my recovery process took on a new dimension and I took another step out of the shadows.

Please read Part 10 of this series by clicking on this link. Thank you. Part 10

You have my permission to share my articles and or video presentations with anyone you believe could benefit, however, I maintain ownership of the intellectual property AND my articles, video presentations and eBooks are not to be considered OPEN SOURCE. Please also provide a link back to Second Chance to Live. In the event that you have questions, please send those questions to me. All questions are good questions. I look forward to hearing from you. Copyright 2007 -2017.

Share this Article

  • Pinterest
  • Print
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Pocket
  • Google

Like this:

Like Loading...

Filed Under: Self-Acceptance after Brain Injury Tagged With: abuse and neglect, abuse and trauma, Acquired Brain Injury, Adult Children of Alcoholics, asking for help, Awareness Acceptance Action, Being Healed, Bob Woodruff, brain injured soldiers, Brain Injury, Brain Injury Associations, Caregivers, celebrities with brain injuries, cerebral vascular accident, characteristics of traumatic brain injury, Children of Trauma, Closed Head Injury, Codependency, Department of Defence, Department of Veteran Affairs, Desert Storm Veterans, Destiny, empowerment, Empowerment and Inspirational Speaker, Empowerment Speaker, family, fear of failure, finding your bliss, flash explosion leading to brain Injury, Friends, getting a sponsor, goal setting, Gulf War Veterans, head injury, Healthy Self-Care, Identified Patient, Invisible Disability, Iraq veterans, Iraq War Veterans, Learning, learning disabilities, Learning to talk trust feel, Life, life challenging experiences, Limitations, living life on life's terms, living my destiny, Living with a Disability, living with a traumatic / acquired brain injury, Living with an Invisible Disability, living with meaning and purpose, Major Media Outlooks, Major News Networks, Meaning and Purpose, messages of hope, messages of hope and inspiration, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Motivaional Speaker, motivation, Motivational / Inspirational Speaker, Natasha Richardson, No Longer a Victim, Ophra Winfrey, Parents of children with Acquired brain injuries, Personal, Personal empowerment, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Practical Faith, Progress, PTSD, relationships, Revealing your Destiny, Romance and Relationships, Self Acceptance, self-esteem, Self-Respect, Serving humanity, shame, spinal cord injury, stroke, Subdural Hematoma, support group meetings, taking a step out of the shadows, The Grieving Process, toxic shame, traumatic / acquired brain injury, Traumatic / Acquired Brain Injury and Anger, Traumatic Brain and Comfort, Traumatic Brain Injury, traumatic brain injury and frustration, Traumatic Brain Injury and You, Traumatic Brain Injury in children, traumatic brain injury in schools, traumatic brain injury Iraq, Traumatic Brain Injury Support Groups / Meetings, traumatic brain injury treatment, Veterans of the Iraq War, Vietnam Veterans, you don't have to stay in isolation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Schedule Second Chance to Live

Schedule Second Chance to Live

Follow Me on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Google +

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • Google+

Change Font Size of Articles

How to Increase and Decrease Font (Print) Size

Translate Second Chance to Live

Albanian Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Lativian Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Recent Posts

  • Keys Opening Doors to Hope after a Brain Injury
  • Making Peace with God and Myself to Stop Wasting Time
  • Embracing the Significance and Value of Our Seeming Flaws
  • Childhood Stroke (Brain Injury) and Healing Our Brain and Body
  • Stay in Your Own Lane and You Will Succeed by Not Giving Up
  • Global Brain Injury Peer Support Network — Empowering the Individual, Not the Brain Injury
  • School Shootings, Gun Control and Solutions for School Safety
  • Is the Group that You are In Hurting You? — Are you being Bullied?

12 Categories Offering Brain Injury Peer Support — Lists of Articles

Category Building Self-Esteem after Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Brain Injury Recovery An Ongoing Process — List of Articles

Category Celebrating Success Following a Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Creating Hope after Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Finding and Knowing Peace after Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Finding Purpose after a Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Fulfilling Dreams after Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category My Journey Living with a Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Overcoming Bullying after Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Peer Support after Brain Injury — We are Not Alone — List of Articles

Category Relationships Following a Brain Injury — List of Articles

Category Self-Acceptance after a Brain Injury — List of Articles

Second Chance to Live YouTube Channel — 357 Episodes

Second Chance to Live You Tube Channel

10 Free eBooks with Download Links

putting-the-pieces-in-place-after-brain-injury

Living with a Brain Injury eBook Putting the Pieces in Place 60 Video Presentations

building-self-esteem-self-acceptance-after-brain-injury

Living with a brain injury and Building Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance e Book

Stop-Being-Your-Enemy-Create-a-Life-for-Yourself

Living with a Brain Injury, What Helped Me to Stop Being my Enemy and Create a Life for Myself e Book

being-your-own-hero-through-overcoming-adversity

Being Your own Hero through Overcoming Adversity — Tools for Rebuilding Your Life e Book

making-sense-of-why and what-is-my-destiny

Living with a Brain Injury, Making Sense of Why and What is my Destiny? e Book

It-Is-never-too-late-to-create-hope

Create a Spark of Hope— Free Download

Finished eBook Cover Moving Forward Following a Brain Injury eBook

Moving Forward Following a Brain Injury e Book

Living with a Brain Injury and Learning to Take Care of Ourselves

Living with a Brain Injury and Learning to Take Care of Ourselves eBook

Having a Relationship with Myself and Other People after Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook

Having a Relationship with Myself and Other People after a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook

Celebrating Success after a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook

10 eBooks Free for Download

Instructions for Downloading My 10 eBooks

 

Follow Second Chance to Live

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 460 other subscribers

Archives

May 2009
M T W T F S S
« Apr   Jun »
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Copyright Instructions

Second Chance to Live — Permission to Share with Guidelines — Copyright 2007-2015

Copyright © 2018 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

%d bloggers like this: