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
By Second Chance to Live
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...]
Why are Brain Injury Professionals Not Listening to Brain Injury Survivors?
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. Recently my friend Ken Collins posted a Facebook message, " Over the years some of the biggest obstacles I have had to overcome are from professionals in the field of brain injury. There have been many times when my words about my recovery have fell on deaf ears. This is something … [Read more...]
Living with an Invisible Disability — Accepting Ourselves when Other People Can’t
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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...]