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 good news. What has been stripped away can be created and owned.
We can create hope. We can own our power. We can create a good life.
There is good news, despite what you may have been told or what you may be believing about yourself.
The good news is that we can create hope after a brain injury.
The good news is that our brain injuries do not have to limit our hope.
The good news is that our brain injuries do not have to limit our power.
The good news is that a brain injury does not have to limit your or my ability to pursue our hopes.
The good news is that we can follow our dreams and live the life that we have imagined.
The good news is that we can create a good life for ourselves.
The good news is that we can make life work, in ways that work for us.
The good news is that we can excel and be successful in our chosen fields of service.
Following my brain injury at the age of 10 in 1967 and for many years hope was repeatedly stripped away from me. In the process of hope being stripped away from me, I felt as though I had little power. Hope for the future and power to affect my well-being and my quality of life. Little by little my self-acceptance and self-esteem crumbled under disappointment. My sense of hopelessness and lack of power continued until I reached a point in time. A point in time when I could no longer deny the impact of my brain injury. A point in time when I stopped trying to be a person not impacted by a brain injury.
With my awareness, came the realization that I could stop fighting against myself. With my awareness came the realization that I could look at hope in a different way. In a way that I could work in partnership with hope. With the change in the way that I looked at hope, I discovered that I could change the way that I looked at empowerment. With the change in the way that I looked at empowerment, I began to realize that I could own my power. With these realizations, I discovered that I could create a good life for myself while living with the impact of a brain injury.
Several days ago I wrote an article to share what I discovered that helped me to regain hope in my life. To share what I discovered that helped me to realize and own my power after my severe brain injury (open skull fracture) which I sustained in a car accident when I was 10 years old in 1967. I wrote the article to offer a comprehensive way to access links to each of the 1815 articles, 400 video presentations, and 10 eBooks. The articles: Resources for Gaining Hope and Owning Our Power after a Brain Injury.
After writing, creating and publishing the information I wanted to provide a streamlined way to access the information within my articles, video presentations, and eBooks. To do so I created specific pages and a series of links on those pages.
These resources are available to you at no cost or expense. Although there is no cost to using these resources, they are not to be considered open source. I maintain ownership of intellectual property. For more information concerning my copyright notice, please click on this link: Copyright Notice. Thank you.
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I created 12 categories. Each category has a list of articles on the specific topic. Clicking on the category link will open the list of article titles. Clicking on the article title will serve to open the article on Second Chance to Live.
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
I have created 387 video presentations. To access a list of titles to each of these video presentation, you may click on this link:
Navigating Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury Playlist 49 Video Presentation Series
A List of 400 Video Presentations created To Empower the Individual, Not the Brain Injury
By clicking on the title of the video presentation, the presentation will open on YouTube.
I have created a way to either read-only or a way that you may download each of my eBooks for free
Links to the PDF Files of my 10 eBooks
Living with a Brain Injury eBook Putting the Pieces in Place 60 Video Presentations
Being Your own Hero through Overcoming Adversity – Tool for Rebuilding Your Life eBook
Living with a brain injury and Building Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance eBook
Living with a Brain Injury, Making Sense of Why and What is my Destiny? eBook
Living with a Brain Injury, What Helped Me to Stop being my Enemy and Create a life for Myself eBook
It’s Never too Late to Create Hope eBook
Moving Forward Following a Brain Injury eBook
Living with a Brain Injury and Learning to Take Care of Ourselves
Having a Relationship with Myself and Other People After a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook
Download Links to each of my 9 eBooks
Living with a Brain Injury eBook Putting the Pieces in Place 60 Video Presentations
Living with a brain injury and Building Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance eBook
Living with a Brain Injury, What Helped Me to Stop Being my Enemy and Create a Life for Myself eBook
Living with a Brain Injury, Making Sense of Why and What is my Destiny? eBook
Being Your own Hero through Overcoming Adversity — Tools for Rebuilding Your Life eBook
It’s Never too Late to Create Hope eBook
Moving Forward Following a Brain Injury eBook
Living with a Brain Injury and Learning to Take Care of Ourselves
Having a Relationship with Myself and Other People After a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook
To watch the video presentation of this article, you may click on this link: Brain Injury Resources Video Presentation
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. More Information: Copyright 2007 -2019.
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