Several days ago, I wrote the article, Navigating Life with a Brain Injury and an Invisible Disability. To share the information in a visual and audio format I am creating this video presentation. Following a brain injury, so many things change. Navigating life can leave us feeling alone and insecure. Alone and insecure as someone adrift in a rowboat on an open ocean … [Read more...]
Navigating Life with a Brain Injury and an Invisible Disability
Following a brain injury, so many things change. Navigating life can leave us feeling alone and insecure. Alone and insecure as someone adrift in a rowboat on an open ocean without rows. For individuals who learn better through watching and listening, I have created a video presentation of this article. To watch and listen to the article, click on this link: Navigating … [Read more...]
Brain Injury Resources
Living with the impact of a brain injury can have the effect of stripping away our hope. Living with the impact of a brain injury can have the effect of taking away our power. But there is Hope and Power Let me share what I discovered On August 11, 1967, when I was 10 years old, I sustained an open skull fracture and a severe brain injury. Following my brain injury and for … [Read more...]
Global Brain Injury Peer Support Network — Empowering the Individual, Not the Brain Injury
Through my 50 years of living with the impact of a brain injury and as an invisible disability I have come to realize that brain injury recovery needs to involve/include the whole person, not just the brain injury. That is why I believe that brain injury recovery and peer support needs to include healing in the mind, body, spirit, and emotions following a brain injury. The … [Read more...]