Category Knowing Finding Peace after Brain injury Article List

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Following a brain injury finding one’s purpose can be a challenge. What was once understood and clear to us may now be unclear. In my experience, I sought for clarity to find my purpose for many years. What I thought was my calling and the way I was to live my purpose did not work out. I struggled in my attempt to find a way to my purpose. As shared in my article, Answering the Call which Never Came (included in this eBook) it took me a very long time. A very long time to…

Realize after obtaining my undergraduate degree in 10 years and my master’s degree in 3 ½ years, 20 years of getting and being fired from both non-professional and professional jobs, a client of 2 State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation’s, 3 SSDI applications that I was on my own. On my own to figure out how to use my gifts, talents and abilities in a way that would work for me. Work for me, despite being told that I was unemployable and living on a fixed income on SSDI.

In my experience the answers did not come over night. Increasing clarity came to me as when I stopped trying to prove that I was not impacted by a brain injury. Stopped denying that I was living with the impact of a brain injury and an invisible disability. Stopped trying to live in the truth of people who wanted me to believe that I could just get over “it” Get over not being impacted the traumatic brain injury that occurred when I was 10 years old if I just stopped or started doing…

When I started to own my reality and live in my truth, my purpose became clearer to me. Finding my purpose became increasingly clear when I reached a point in time when I could no longer deny. Deny the impact of an open skull fracture, right frontal lobe damage, a severe brain bruise with brain stem involvement when I was 10 years old. My purpose started to come into focus after I grieved what I could not change (the impact of my tbi and what people wanted me to believe).

Once I arrived at a place of acceptance of what could not be changed, I became willing to try something different. Once I became open to trying something different, I started to explore my truth. After I started to explore my truth, it took me another 7 years. Although there was more struggle to accept my reality (during these 7 years) to find my truth, I am glad that I did not give up on the process. I share my experience with you to encourage you to not give up on your process.

Although your process may take time, as my process took time for me, to gain clarity don’t give up. Keep searching and asking questions. Clarity will come for you. The process of discovery just takes time. At least it did for me. Matters will become clear to you in time. Articles that I share in this eBook helped me through the process of finding the truth of my purpose in life. May you be encouraged to not give up and stay committed to the process of finding the truth of your purpose