• Home
  • About
    • My Autobiography
    • Public Speaking
    • How to Schedule Me
    • Testimonies/Endorsements
  • Translate
  • Resources
  • 12 eBooks
    • Downloads
  • Public Speaking; Booking
    • Brain Injury Recovery (Zoom Presentations)
    • Future Presentations (Zoom Presentations)
    • Past Presentations (Zoom Presentations)
  • Brain/Body
    • Neuroplasticity Power Point Presentation
    • Neuroplasticity to Learn/Relearn Skills
    • Nine Habits to Excel Neuroplasticity
    • How I Use Neuroplasticity
    • Stroke, Brain Injury and Neuroplasticity
  • Media
    • 449 Second Chance to Live YouTube Presentations
    • Experiencing a Second Chance to Live PowerPoint Presentation
    • Finding Purpose after Brain Injury Power Point Presentation
    • Neuroplasticity, Setting Goals and Creating Hope After Brain Injury and Stroke Power Point Presentation
    • 41 Posters Designed to Inspire Hope
    • Building Your Life After Brain Injury YouTube
    • 20 Brain Injury Recovery Slideshow Presentations
  • Honors
    • Organizations
    • Publications

Second Chance to Live

Empowering the Individual, Not the Brain Injury

Overcoming Bullying after Brain Injury

Bullying can be a challenge for anyone. Individuals living with brain injuries may have a difficult time recognizing bullies. Individuals living with brain injuries may question their own judgment. Individuals living with brain injuries may have a difficult time trusting. Because individuals living with brain injuries may have difficulty trusting themselves. Individuals living with brain injuries may have difficult time trusting their judgment. Individuals living with brain injuries may as a result become more vulnerable to being bullied.

In my experience I bought into the notion that I deserved to be bullied for many years. I bought into this belief because I believed that I did not just make mistakes, but that I was a mistake. My low self-esteem and poor self-worth left me vulnerable to being bullied. Following my brain injury at the age of 10, my self-esteem, self-worth and self-value continued to be undermined. Undermined by being blamed for what was invisible and out of my ability to control. Blamed for what I did not understood, nor knew how to change.

Bullies can be found everywhere. Bullies on the playground. Bullies in academic settings and with in organizations. Bullies with in associations. Bullies with in churches. Hurt people, hurt people.
Bullying can occur in physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual ways. Bullying is not about us. It is about the bully. We are not at fault or responsible. The good news is that we can stop the process of being bullied. We no longer have to be bullied. We can stand up for ourselves.

My low-self esteem, low self-worth, coupled with the impact of the injury to my brain added to my vulnerability. The impact of my brain injury and the invisible nature of my disability made it difficult to trust myself. I also found that I had a difficult time trusting my judgment. In response, I was led to believe that I needed to trade my judgment for the judgment of other people. Trading my judgment for other people’s judgment continued to make me vulnerable.

But thank God I did not remain vulnerable. Instead I grew in my recovery process. In response I grew in my ability to trust myself and trustworthy people. In response my self-esteem grew, as well as my feelings of self-worth and value. In the process, I began to trust my judgment instead of defaulting to other people’s judgment.

In this category of articles I share what helped me to stop believing that I was a mistake. I share what helped me to grow in self-esteem and feelings of self-worth and value. I share what helped me to start trusting myself and my judgment. I share what helped me to recognize bullies and bullying behavior. Bullying behavior in individuals and groups of individuals. I share what helped me to set limits, boundaries and what helps me to stand up to bullies.

The good news is that we do not deserve to be bullied. The good news is that our self-esteem and feelings of self-worth and value can improve. Living with the impact of a brain injury and an invisible disability no longer has to leave us vulnerable to being bullied. We can stand up for ourselves. We can take care of ourselves in the face of bullies.

Solutions When Dealing with Difficult People and Bullies

May 7, 2016 By Second Chance to Live

Solutions When Dealing with Difficult People and Bullies

  In my experience living with the impact of a brain injury and an invisible disability I needed to develop solutions when dealing with difficult people and bullies. Over the past several days I wrote and published a 2 Part article. Brain Injury, Vulnerabilities, Bullying and Intimidation. Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2 of that article series. Brain Injury, … [Read more...]

Freedom From Feeling Excluded Part 2 Video Presentation

June 7, 2015 By Second Chance to Live

 Several days ago I created the video presentation of Freedom From Feeling Excluded Part 1. In today's article I will offer Part 2 of the video presentation of Freedom from Feeling Excluded. In the event that the information that I share in this 2 part video presentation helps you, please let me know my friend. Thank you. Below is a brief excerpt from Part 2 of my article … [Read more...]

Freedom From Feeling Excluded Part 1 Video Presentation

June 4, 2015 By Second Chance to Live

Several days ago I wrote and published a 2 part article, Freedom From Feeling Excluded. I published this article in 2 parts to make reading the article more manageable. In today's article, I am going to present Part 1 of the article in video format. I create video presentations of my articles to share the information with in my articles with individuals who learn more … [Read more...]

Beyond Feeling Excluded — Are You Being Bullied by a Individual or Group?

May 27, 2015 By Second Chance to Live

Social Anxiety, Understanding and Finding Freedom from Bullying

Recently I wrote a 2 part article series, Freedom from Feeling Excluded. I would invite you to read both parts of this article as I explain how to exclusion takes place, through the use of labels, stereotypes and stigmatization and "boxes". If you have not already read the 2 Part articles, I would encourage you to do so by clicking on the below 2 links: Freedom From Feeling … [Read more...]

Freedom From Feeling Excluded Part 2

May 26, 2015 By Second Chance to Live

If you have not already read Part 1 of this article, please do so at this time, by clicking on this link: Freedom From Feeling Excluded Part 1 Thank God, through my recovery process; I became aware of  how denial had kept me tied to the notion that I deserved to be abused because I was “different”. Through my recovery process, I became aware of my deficits and limitations, … [Read more...]

Next Page »

Schedule Second Chance to Live

Enter Word to Search the Website

Enter Your Email to Subscribe

Most Recent Published Articles

  • Living with a Brain Injury and Finding Freedom from feeling “Stuck” in Time and “Spinning” our Wheels
  • Neuroplasticity, Setting Goals and Creating Hope After Brain Injury Power Point Presentation and Rehabilitation Hospitals
  • 12 Ways to Enhance Our Lives, Well-Beings and Relationships after a Brain Injury with Craig Phillips Webinar Recording
  • Finding the Freedom from Feeling Stuck after a Brain Injury Presentation
  • 12 Ways to Enhance Our Lives, Well-Beings and Relationships after Brain Injury Webinar and the Brain Injury Association of Vermont
  • Living with a Brain Injury, New Year’s Resolutions and “I CAN” Video Recording
  • Brain Injury and The Power of “I CAN” in an Ongoing Brain Injury Recovery Process Zoom Presentation” to the Brooks Rehabilitation Neuro Day Treatment Program
  • Achieving Our Dreams, One Skill and One Skill Set at a Time, One day at a Time
  • Living with a Brain Injury and the Messages We Tell Ourselves Full Zoom Presentation
  • Living with a Brain Injury and the Messages We Tell Ourselves Zoom Presentation
  • How to Stop Feeling Helpless after Brain Injury — List of Articles
  • Brain Injury and The Power of “I CAN” in an Ongoing Brain Injury Recovery Process Zoom Presentation
  • Creating a New History after Experiencing a Brain Injury or Stroke
  • Brain Injury and The Power of “I CAN” in an Ongoing Brain Injury Recovery Process Presentation to the Fayetteville Brain Injury Support Group
  • Brain Injury, Stress, Anxiety, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Presentation to the Adapt Clubhouse
  • Living with a Brain Injury — I Can Not Do Everything, But Still I Can Do Something Presentation to the Gateway Clubhouse
  • Brain Injury, Stress, Anxiety, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Presentation to the Brain Injury Association of Georgia’s Veteran Support Group
  • Brain Injury, Stress, Anxiety, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Presentation to the Brain Injury Network of Dallas
  • Brain Injury — Why Do I Feel so Misunderstood and Shunned? Presentation to the Brain Injury Association of Iowa
  • Brain Injury, Stress, Anxiety, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Presentation to the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina

Second Chance to Live Logo

Join our Facebook Community

  • Facebook

Translate Second Chance to Live

Free EBooks

  • Don’t Let Anyone tell You (Including Yourself) that…Video Presentation e Book Download
  • Avoiding the Trap of Our Brain Injury e Book Download
  • Celebrating Success after a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook Download
  • Having a Relationship with Myself and Other People After a Brain Injury Video Presentations eBook Download
  • Moving Forward Following a Brain Injury eBook Download
  • Living with a Brain Injury, Making Sense of Why and What is my Destiny? e Book
  • Living with a Brain Injury and Taking Care of Ourselves eBook Download
  • It’s Never too Late to Create Hope e Book — Free Download
  • Living with a Brain Injury, What Helped Me to Stop Being my Enemy and Create a Life for Myself e Book
  • Being Your own Hero through Overcoming Adversity — Tools for Rebuilding Your Life e Book Download
  • Living with a brain injury and Building Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance e Book
  • Living with a Brain Injury eBook Putting the Pieces in Place 60 Video Presentations

Follow Second Chance to Live

RSS feed RSS - Posts

Archives

February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jan    

Translate Second Chance to Live

Albanian Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Lativian Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

Copyright © 2023 · All rights reserved. · Sitemap