Tag: brain
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The mind explained…
Talk about mind blown! Before I was 4 years post brain injury I had never really thought about the brain in depth – it’s just this squishy thing in your brain that has umteen sections that do different things right? I was way too fixated on anything Underworld related:- The Ice Man – Richard Kilinskey,…
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Keeping a strong mindset…
As everyone knows – I’m a pretty freaking hard-headed freakishly strong kinda crazy bird… life’s too short to be just like everyone else – and I’ve been shown that first hand. I have absolutely no desire to fit in. People wonder how I do it – Keeping a strong mindset, since living with a TBI…
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Living with a Brain Injury
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The science of sleep…
I have been studying sleep for a while as after my accident, I would get very little, interrupted, chaotic sleep. I had the hardest time ever falling asleep! I would get very little blocks of sleep throughout the night and would sleep most of the day. Unless somebody was home, I didn’t eat because of…
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Retraining your brain…
Recent advances in the field of neuroplasticity have been able to prove how your brain is hardwired and genetically designed to heal, change and even rewire itself after all types of traumas, including but not just limited to brain injuries. Research also explains how your brain changes, and how, with the support of a rehabilitation…