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Your Story Matters
What if you suddenly lost most of your long-term memories? That’s what happened to me after surviving a severe traumatic brain injury. What’s left of over fifty years of memories is now nothing more than […]
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Holidays are Coming Yet Again
I don’t want to sound like some kind of a scrooge here, but the simple truth is that holidays are a challenging time for me since my brain injury. It’s all the chaos that naturally […]
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COVID-19: The Increased Risk for Brain Injury Survivors
Given the fact that COVID-19 is still a new disease, relatively speaking, studies are in full force all over the world to learn more about both the short- and long-term impacts on its survivors. Although […]
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Struggles and Doubts
Yes, we’re coming on six years, and my injury is as invisible to others as ever. And yes, I question myself just as much as I ever have. Are the things going on in my […]
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The Joy of Finding a Lost Song
The motorcycle wreck that left me with a severe traumatic brain injury took a lot from me. One of the things that hurt deeply was my ability to play guitar. I’d been playing for well […]
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The Dangers of Continuous Partial Attention
Continuous partial attention is the term used to describe the state that so many of us find ourselves in on a regular basis in this digital world we live in. Email, phone calls, text messages, […]
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Breathing 101: Reducing Anxiety and Improving Your Quality of Life
Breathing is something we do in every minute of every day, but for the most part, we are rarely even aware of our breathing. Scientific studies are showing that in addition to relieving stress, anxiety, […]
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Dangerous Intersections: Traumatic Brain Injury, TIA and Stroke
I learned about the connections between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke when I had my first transient ischemic attack (TIA) just a few short weeks after my TBI. A transient ischemic attack is defined […]
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One Thousand Days of Meditation
Meditation was a necessary addition to my lifestyle following my severe TBI. I started down this path after reading several studies that show a consistent meditation practice measurably increases neuroplasticity in our brains (1). At the […]
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Sudden Dizziness after a Brain Injury
I learned about this very distressing problem on my first day home from the hospital. Whenever I tried to lie down, I’d immediately feel like either the room was spinning or that I was. It […]