I sustained an open skull fracture, a traumatic brain injury with right frontal lobe damage, a severe brain bruise with brain stem involvement and remained in a 3 week long coma when I was 10 years old in 1967. Little was know about brain injury, so once my external wounds healed my brain injury became invisible. In this presentation I will share information that I would have … [Read more...]
Making Our Lives Magical after Brain Injury and Stroke Keynote Presentation
Living with the impact or a brain injury, traumatic or acquired, can leave the individual with a feeling of helplessness. Helpless, with the thinking that their “lives” are over and they no longer matter to anyone, including themselves. So, they may ask, “what’s the point?” In the process of their feeling helpless to do anything different, the individual may develop what is … [Read more...]
Navigating Life After a Traumatic Brain Injury: Embracing Reality and the Journey to Acceptance Presentation
Today I want to begin talking about the process of acceptance. Through my process of acceptance living with the impact of a traumatic brain injury and an invisible disability, I came to a life changing awareness'. Awareness' that helped me to move beyond the limitations and deficits of my TBI and Invisible disability. And as I grew in the awareness and acceptance of the impact … [Read more...]
Celebrating Goals and Dreams in the Now, Overcoming Obstacles, Odds and Impacting Generations Presentation
In this presentation, I'm encouraging the audience to maintain their commitment to working toward their goals and dreams, even when faced with challenges and seeming obstacles, such as being patronize, frustration, discouragement, disappointment, and despondency. Despite these frustrations, it is crucial to not give up on pursuing your aspirations and goals, even when they … [Read more...]
Believing in Ourselves through Self-Advocacy — Owning Our Power through Self-Advocacy Keynote Presentation
Through my process and experience I realized that no one is or can be more invested in discovering how to own my power than me. Consequently, I realized that I needed to take a proactive approach and the responsibility to advocate for myself to own my power. Through my process and journey, I discovered that to advocate for myself I needed to do so in my mind, body, spirit, … [Read more...]