Recently I was speaking with a friend who attended a conference on trauma-informed care. As we spoke I realized that I have been offering trauma-informed care during the past 14 years through Second Chance to Live. Trauma-informed care to empower the individual, not the trauma. Background Information In May 1985 I obtained my undergraduate degree (BA) in Theology … [Read more...]
Second Chance to Live 11 eBooks for Ongoing Brain Injury Recovery
Over the past 13 years I have written articles and created video presentations. I have created 11 e Books to offer a collection of these articles and video presentations on a variety of topics. Topics that have benefited me in my ongoing brain injury recovery process. Benefited me during the course of 53 years following my traumatic brain injury in 1967. Below are the 11 … [Read more...]
Second Chance to Live – 11th Year Anniversary – Empowering the Individual
Today, February 6, 2018 marks the 11th year anniversary of Second Chance to Live. If you are not familiar with my process my traumatic brain injury (open and depressed skull fracture, right frontal lobe dame, a severe brain bruise with brain stem involvement and a left femur (thigh bone) fracture occurred in 1967 in a motor vehicle accident. I remained in a coma for 3 weeks … [Read more...]
Opening and Moving through a Door to Create New Possibilities
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed-door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller In a recent article, Opening the Door to Hope; I spoke to the need to face and address loss. Loss that I am powerless to change. Loss that interferes with my ability to move on with life. What I … [Read more...]