On October 27, 2021, I will be speaking on the topic of “Believing in Ourselves through Self-Advocacy — A Guide to Owning Our Power” through Zoom to Adapt Clubhouse in Alexandria, VA. Below are links to the outline of the presentation and a list of question for discussion. “Believing in Ourselves through Self-Advocacy — A Guide to Owning Our Power” Questions that I Needed … [Read more...]
Don’t Let Anyone tell You — You Aren’t Enough, Because…Slideshow Presentation
Living with the impact of a brain injury can leave you and I feeling unimportant. Unimportant in ways that leave you and I feeling less than, ineffective, ineffectual, weak, feeble, and useless… Feeling as though our lives and our efforts do not matter. But that is not the truth. Don’t Let Anyone tell You — You Aren’t Enough Because... The reality is that we are powerful … [Read more...]
Don’t Let Anyone tell You — You Aren’t Enough Because…Video Presentation
To listen to the video presentation of this article, you may click on this link: Don’t Let Anyone tell You — You Aren’t Enough Because…Video Presentation Below is a copy of the entire article: Living with the impact of a brain injury — visible or invisible — can leave you and I feeling unimportant in many ways. But Don’t Let Anyone tell You — You Aren’t … [Read more...]
Strategies for Ongoing Brain Injury Recovery — 11 eBooks
Living with the impact of a brain injury can be confusing and baffling for both survivors and family members. Once external wounds heal and the individual looks "normal", expectations can leave everyone connected to the brain injury frustrated and angry. Frustration and anger can be directed at the individual living with a brain injury. As a result, the individual living … [Read more...]
A Deeper Look into My Journey Living with a Brain Injury
In yesterday's article, My Experience Living with a Traumatic Brain Injury I shared the "skeleton" of my experience living with a traumatic brain injury. In today's article, I would like to put "meat on the bones" by sharing a more in-depth explanation of what I experienced during my lifetime. On February 18, 2007, I began a series My Journey thus Far to share what I learned … [Read more...]