When your life changes because of a Brain Injury you search desperately for anything that will help.
Your life has changed so drastically and you feel that you have lost…
There is a lot of attention on the Olympic games. Rightfully so as these athletes have all trained very hard to cope with some extreme challenges. Many brain injury Survivors might…
One important key to surviving a TBI is being able to adapt to the many changes that a Survivor must now face.
If you are a TBI Survivor you…
A Brain Injury Survivor needs to learn how to Play to their Strengths. In fact, this is important for everyone. We have much more to gain when we focus on…
Guiseppe Penone is an Italian artist and sculptor, known for his large-scale sculptures of trees. In the attached picture, Guiseppe Penone carves out a young tree with an older…
“Some days you feel so-so, and some days you feel downright awful. But you wade through those days to get to the one or two days a week that satisfy…
True nobility to a Brain Injury Survivor is being better than their previous self. The dedication, commitment, and the hard work needed to recover is often invisible and unknown to…
I had a terrible sleep last night. I only got 3 broken hours of sleep so obviously I woke up feeling horrible.
My neuropsychologist suggested I try "grounding" to help…
It is unfortunate that society has an obsession with things such as "the best looking", "the wealthiest", "the smartest", "the most educated", etc.
The constant exposure to perfection in the…
A Brain Injury is an invisible disability.
The term disability includes a wide variety of conditions.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission states that a “disability may be the result of…
It has been 24 years since my near-death experience where I sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and lay in a deep coma for two weeks. I also sustained numerous…
A Brain Injury Survivor is so incredibly strong. What a survivor has to deal with on a daily basis causes them to lose their identity in the world. This would…