Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. You are always welcome here. Several days ago I wrote an article in which I spoke about self-advocacy, Brain Injury and Self-Advocacy. In today's article I would like to share some thing that has given me the ability to overcome adversity in my life. Some thing that has helped me … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
Brain Injury and Self-Advocacy
Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. You are always welcome here. As I shared on my About Page, I lived with the unknown impact of an open skull fracture, a brain injury and an invisible disability for 39 years. This lack of awareness turned out to be both a blessing and a curse to me in my ongoing recovery process. … [Read more...]
Brain Injury and Overcoming Learning Disabilities
A week ago I introduced an article Improving Balance and Coordination. In that article I shared a 3 minute video presentation. In the video presentation I encouraged individuals reading the article to start a program to improve their balance and coordination. In my experience, I have used a program using repetitive mirrored movements on both sides of my body. By doing so, I … [Read more...]
Finding Craig — Making Sense of Brain Injury Part 8
First of all let me say, you and I are not our brain injuries. We are learning how to live and navigate through life with our brain injuries. We are learning to make sense of what is invisible. Making sense of our brain injuries gives us the ability to love and accept ourselves. Love and accept ourselves when other people can't or won't. Making sense of our brain injuries helps … [Read more...]
Improving Balance and Coordination
Yesterday, a friend kindly captured how I have learned how to use both sides of my brain and body. I asked him to capture my use of my brain and body through the skills that I have been working on for the past 18 years. I have not arrived at all I am working to accomplish, but I have made huge strides. I am glad that I stuck with the process and did not give up when I was not … [Read more...]
