Yesterday, I finished a slideshow of an article that I wrote several years ago, Dispelling the Notion of Dis-ability -- I Just Do Things in Ways that Work For Me Slideshow Presentation. I create slideshows of my articles to offer the information within my articles in a format that includes both media and text. To watch the Slideshow, click on > (Play) button in the … [Read more...]
Second Chance to Live –1400th Article — Special Edition
By Second Chance to Live
Today's article marks my 1400th article written since creating Second Chance to Live on February 6, 2007. Since creating Second Chance to Live some exciting events have taken place. Earlier this year I created 5 e Books to consolidate some of my articles and video presentations. Below are links to my 5 e Books that are free for download Living with a Brain Injury eBook … [Read more...]
Valuable Recovery Lessons Learned and Shared with a Support Group Part 2
By Second Chance to Live
Below are several of the valuable recovery lessons that I learned and shared with a support group during my presentation. Yesterday, I wrote an article to share points that I shared from my experience, strength and hope during a presentation to a support group on Saturday, May 30, 2015. Because of the length of the article, I decided today to divide the article in 2 parts. … [Read more...]
Traumatic Brain Injury, Groundhog Day and Defining Why?
By Second Chance to Live
Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. Thank you for making the decision to stop by to visit with me. Although I had no idea how the traumatic brain injury that I experienced when I was 10 years old was impacting my life, I struggled to understand the "why" of my experience. In my quest to find peace with my … [Read more...]
Defining Success
By Second Chance to Live
I have been thinking about some thing that I feel led to share with you. In my experience I have found that there are several traps that can leave you and I feeling like we are failures. We can be led to believe that because of our brain injuries that we are failures, because of what happened to us. Consequently, we may find ourselves focusing on what we can not change (what … [Read more...]