Panic attacks, seem to come on suddenly, hitting like a freight train. Convulsing the entire brain and body. The pain and experience is excruciating. Our hearts race, our brains collapse, often sensations of fear consume our persona, it’s an Earthquake! Our bodies tremble from the upheaval disturbance, seizing us in a terrifying grip. The time…
Category: Understanding TBIs – Recovery & Solutions
Life is filled with Forbearance, Adventure and Detours. Trauma affects all of us. TBI affects over 10 million people, globally on an annual bases, and yet little is known about recovery. All too often TBI sufferers never hear about recovery or solutions. I am here to tell you about Recovery and Solutions! I recovered over 100% from eleven (11) TBIs
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Grief Is Not Forever
Grief assaults our senses, our lives are disrupted, and our emotions hit a wall of calamity. Insanity visits for a time. Sorrow infiltrates our being. Negative thoughts consume us. We lose a sense when life was good. Sadness prevails with TBIs. Oft times we look around for reminders of the goodness in life. These…
Shame! The Erosion of Confidence
Shame, impedes everyone! Disrupts the goodness in life! Shame is impinged on a person by others. Shame is one of the most harmful of tactics for it is invisible, thereby extremely difficult to remedy. Our Human world lacks compassion and understanding. A long standing malady which disconnects each other when we need each other the…
The Deceptiveness Of Traumatic Brain Injuries
TBI is a Personal mission!! A subject I have dedicated my life to, in educating others. Do I appear to be seriously injured to you? I was! In all the photos on Google/online, including those with my Arabian horses, you might have seen over the past decade, I was horribly injured. A result of a…
Recapturing The Loss Brain
Loss of Self ~ Loss of Function~ LOSS! There is no one recipe in recovering from TBIs, unfortunately! If we are to discuss TBIs, we must be candid and talk about the Agony![Tweet] Recovery can be as grueling as the Injury itself. Our brains require immense amount of REST! This is contrary to our current…
A Quiet Moment, Hurting With a Hug!
Sometimes quiet and rest is all we have to give to ourselves and the world. Click Ennio Morricone: Le Vent, Le Cri It is not selfish; this is healing. Take the time without regret, without thought, allowing the unseen wings to grow and expand silently. I was badly injured long ago and my body hurts…
REST is Required If You Want To Recover!!!
This is your brain when sleeping. The neurons are activated, synapses firing, while Amyloids cleanses the brain. What is amyloid neuropathy? Your brain reconstruct its self when sleeping, resting, meditating, taking time out. Your life depends on your Brain being alive and taken care of! Your Brain is the most important organ that keeps you…
Recovery is Quiet Stillness -TBI Solutions
These months have been agonizing. Letting go to the Quiet Stillness, allowing my brain to recover, was the solution. “Let Go” my brain spoke quietly. My brains’ way of thinking had to change perspectives; Instead of thinking about, “If I don’t keep doing and the time I am losing.” The change of perception was to; “Think…
Imperfections: Succeeding Beyond Suicidal Intentions
“We need a way of living the truth, without telling the truth.” Profound statement, I wish I had written these words. “Downton Abbey” Why do we hide parts of our lives when a life of transparency is much easier to live? What causes the shame in our lives, when it comes to medical injuries or…
A Life without Passion is Mediocrity
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you, Ralph Waldo Emerson We all have to gauge our lives from where our dreams endeavor in achieving our passions. Knowing our limits and still reaching beyond circumspection. Passion rules many of our lives; it brings us to points in life which elevates…
Transforming Limitations
Transforming our limitations begins with an Idea, which ignites our Inspiration. The next automatic response is born, internal Passion blazes as the sun rises each day. Following the stream of these three causation, fires internal fortitude – searching around the interior depths, beginning the transformation. We see in our sights limitation of self and know…
Integrity, Be Determined to Blend Out!
Our linguistics have a profusion of buzz words: empowerment, gratitude, stay positive, calm down! Don’t be negative. When I hear these word or phrases verbalized I often wonder – do they have true meaning or are they sentences fillers? They come rolling off the tongue fast and furious – every third or fourth word, meaningless,…
Tinnitus: I Need To Hear Your Lips
We all question our place in the universe: The Artists’ job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for emptiness of existence. Gertrude Stein Last week my good friend Lisa asked me, “what kept you going through all these years?” I didn’t have an answer for her other than a quick…
Why Do You Have My Dog?
Sometimes life is bitter and some moments are worth the bitterness. Or are they? These words came to mind during hours, moments and months after realizing the recovery I had made from brain injuries were more than plausible, recovery was in effect and I had changed for the better. Earlier in the beginning years…
TBI – I forgot I had a Brain Injury
You don’t choose a life, you live a one. Some people feel they have a great amount of control in their lives until the fickle humor of life takes you on a detour. The unimaginable enters without knocking. Throughout life we all make simple life choices, as I did one day after being diagnosed with…
TBI – Trapped In Your Brain
First thought I wish to share with you, is, if you have a TBI, you are “still” YOU! You did not lose you, you need to relearn how to make yourself function from the inside out. Here we are standing together at a point in life I call “the finish line is our starting point™”….
TBI -The Elephant Has Left A Stench Behind of Sadness
Life is a series of moments, one after another and each one must be let go of. In the end, we all will die, what is in the middle is what counts. I encourage you to do the things you want to do. (Noted from a wonderful must see movie, “Now Is Good”, it’s about…
Agony of TBI, the GRIT in Recovery (a recent speech)
Recently I gave a speech here in Colorado Springs to other medical providers. It was an “Experiential” speech delivered to a small audience. To help those understand a TBI from the inside out, taking them through the experience of having a Traumatic Brain Injury. There was a small applause from the dozen or so members…
Brainwashed: Use Your Brain, THINK!
Religion- Homeless – My Body and Who’s Rights – Freedom of Speech, Use It. All this in this days’ article: I wish for you to think! Please use your brain to get out of the brainwashed figment illusion we live in. Use your the brain to think; firing up the synapses and neurons, use your…
I Don’t Quit!!
I always believed in my Arabian! It was one of the better choices I made in life! Don’t stop believing, unless your “Dream is stupid”. Then you should get a better Dream. We are on two paths, and I want to be on the one that leads to AWESOME. What will you create? If we…
