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  • Review Your Medications

    💇‍♀️❤️‍🩹 Why Is My Hair Still Falling Out After My Brain Injury? One of the most surprising things that happened after my traumatic brain injury wasn’t just the headaches, memory problems, or exhaustion. It was my hair. A few months after my accident, my hairdresser gently told me that my hair was falling out much…

  • Regulating Happiness: A Brain Injury Lesson I Didn’t Expect

    When most of us think about emotional regulation, we think about managing anger, fear, anxiety, or sadness. But after my brain injury, I learned something surprising… 💛 Sometimes we also need to regulate happiness. When our brains are healing, even positive emotions can make us act before we think. 🌞 1. Happiness still needs boundaries…

  • Dear Addy

    A Love Letter from Your Future Self What if your future self could sit beside you today? Imagine someone who truly understands your brain injury journey. Someone who remembers every tear.Every setback.Every lonely moment.Every small victory that no one else noticed. Now imagine that person is… you. A future version of you who has walked…

  • How Being Believed Helped Me Begin to Heal

    When I first sustained my traumatic brain injury, I wasn’t just fighting the injury itself. I was desperately trying to prove that it existed. I needed someone to tell me, “Yes, you have a brain injury. We believe you.” That need became almost overwhelming. I saw multiple specialists, underwent countless tests, and spent a significant…

  • Radical Acceptance: Stop Fighting Reality

    Sometimes life changes in ways we never wanted. A brain injury, illness, loss, relationship change, or financial problem can leave us thinking: 💭 “This should not be happening.”💭 “I want my old life back.”💭 “This is not fair.” Those feelings are completely understandable. But constantly fighting what has already happened can create even more pain.…

  • Brain Injury & Chronic Pain

    Some days I feel almost like myself. Then one difficult conversation, one stressful situation, or one unexpected event can change everything. Living with a traumatic brain injury isn’t just about memory problems or headaches. For many of us, it also means living with chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, and a nervous system that feels like it’s…

  • When Love Is the Last Memory

    Sometimes I wonder what the most important part of our brain really is. Is it memory? Language? Reasoning? Or is it love? Today I held my grandmother’s hand. She is 96 years old. For more than 20 years, memory has slowly slipped away from her. Over the last few years, dementia has taken almost everything.…

  • Brainspotting

    “You don’t need to know what it is to know that it is.”Dr. David Grand Sometimes after a brain injury, PTSD, or trauma, we feel overwhelmed by emotions we can’t explain. 💔 We know something is wrong.💭 We just can’t always put it into words. That doesn’t mean it isn’t real. Those feelings may live…

  • Growth Mindset After Brain Injury

    “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t… you’re probably right.” 💜 One of the most life-changing books I’ve ever read is Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. The main idea is simple but powerful: 🧱 Fixed Mindset“I am who I am.”“My brain is broken.”“I’ll never get better.” 🌱 Growth Mindset“My brain can learn.”“I…

  • TBI & Procrastination

    Gentle Ways to Do Hard Things After Brain Injury “Tiny steps still move you forward.” Have you ever stared at a simple task… 📧 Answer one email.🧺 Fold one basket of laundry.📞 Make one phone call. …and your brain says, “Nope.” If you have a traumatic brain injury, you are not alone. One of the…

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