Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live. I am happy to have you around my table. Thank you. Yesterday I wrote the article 12 Categories for Brain Injury Support. I created these 12 categories to share from the 1542 articles that I have written for Second Chance to Live and Create a Spark of Hope. On July 29, 2011, I began creating video presentations of my articles to … [Read more...]
12 Brain Injury Peer Support Categories to Empower Hope
Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. Thank you. Over the course of the past 5 days I have been working on a project. The project was done to offer peer support to individuals living with the impact of a brain injury. Below are 12 links to categories containing a series of articles offering hope and peer support on … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 7
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 for context. Thank you. With time, I realized that I needed to replace the demand of perfection with the pursuit of excellence. I realized that I needed to replace the messages of old that told me that "I did not measure up to expectations..." with the realization that my good was good enough. I needed to cease from my … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 6
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 7 for context. Thank you. Through a series of events I reached an emotional bottom. My emotional bottom alerted me to a reality. What I had been doing to maintain my relationships was no longer working for me. My emotional bottom subsequently motivated me to examine why I was in so much pain and why I had such a … [Read more...]
Learning to Trust Part 5
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 , Part 6, Part 7 for context. Thank you. Such covert and overt conditioning brought about a fear of abandonment in me. Consequently, I found myself -- unconsciously -- being driven to strive all the more in an attempt to keep people from leaving and abandoning me. What's more is that I found that whenever I did not measure up to … [Read more...]