As an individual living with a brain injury and an invisible disability who is living on SSDI I feel insecure at times. Insecure at times when I judge my efforts to people who are not living with a brain injury, an invisible disability and living on SSDI. In March 2014 I wrote an article to share what I experience when I feel insecure. I then go on to share what helps me … [Read more...]
Learning to Accept Ourselves when Other People Can’t or Won’t Video Presentation
By Second Chance to Live
Through my experience I learned a painful reality. Learning to accept ourselves when other people can’t or won’t can be very difficult. Such a difficulty can leave us feeling stuck behind invisible walls. Background Information on my Living behind the invisible Wall As you may know, I sustained a traumatic brain injury when I was 10 years old in 1967. I sustained an … [Read more...]
Dispelling the Notion of Dis-ability — I Just Do Things in Ways…Slideshow Presentation
By Second Chance to Live
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...]
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...]
Traumatic Brain Injury — Defining Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance Video Presentation
By Second Chance to Live
Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live. I am happy to have you around my table. Several days ago I wrote the article, Traumatic Brain Injury -- Defining Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance. In today's article, I would like to introduce the video presentation of the article. Defining self-esteem and self-acceptance can be very difficult for anyone. The loss of a sense of … [Read more...]