Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. Several days ago I wrote this article, Living with a Brain Injury — “it’s all up in your head” — Lest I be lulled back into Denial. To share the information with individuals who learn more effectively through watching and listening, I create video presentations of my articles. … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Telling One’s Story as a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor Video Presentation
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Note: This article marks my 1300th article that I have written and published on Second Chance to Live. Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to have you around my table. Yesterday I wrote and published this article. Today, I am going to make a video presentation of the article. I created video presentations of my articles to offer the … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Telling One's Story as a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor
By Second Chance to Live
My friend Trina Tbi Chambers-Bradlee posted some thing on her Facebook page that prompted me to write this article: “Does anyone feel like sharing their story? It can be quite liberating, and inspiring to others...for us to share how we were injured. I think my Survival Story is still pinned to the top of the page...But I'd be interested to hear anyone else's, if anyone feels … [Read more...]
Living with an Invisible Disability — Accepting Ourselves when Other People Can’t
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. As you may know, I sustained my brain injury in 1967. Once the external wounds healed, the impact of my traumatic brain injury was never again factored into the difficulties that I experienced for the next 39 years. Consequently, I found myself living with bewildering conundrum of … [Read more...]
Finding Freedom to Love and Accept Our self as an Individual
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I wrote this article in April of 2007. What I share in this article helped and continues to help me to love and accept myself as an individual. The Power of Identification Welcome back and I am so glad you decided to stop by and rest. You are a gift to me. I am fired up about a particular topic today. I have been fired up about this topic for most of my life. As a person with a … [Read more...]