Craig Sicilia founder BIR

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about the silent epidemic which is not so silent  we have a voice burt over all people with disablitiesgive up much of their voice, if you wish to be on the show let us know we would love to have you   details coming soon

things i wish i would have never learned, things that harren a heart and that were the fall of the roman empire.  to know how people realy are and how those who profit most from our injury care the least.  How people with disabilities are just a comodity or someones bottom line.  And people don't seem to even notice or care they just keep on going .  LOyalty, trust  and fareness are all out the do...

  It is an angle number and also has other numerological meanings which we will talk about.  Here are the big questions I have to ask myself in justifying keeping things going.  does it help anyone.  And to this day it helps people and is a tool for the ages or until the robots take over and shut down the internet  have we or I learned anything.  The answer is Oh God yes    You know how people get...

We have no phone signal tonight which is ok but i am ready to share this show you ever said just screw it, me too sometimeby the minite but life goes on wether we do or dont.  so lets talk about what ever enjoy and what ever.

Kevin has been an great weekly host, since the very beginnings of BIRN going to seven nights per week. He will still be doing his show on the first and third Fridays, but has moved into some other pursuits, that will keep him and Mags hopping. As a result, we will be looking for a new host for the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month. This may be one host doing both, or it may end up being two monthl...

Brain Injury Support groups save lives, build communities and give meaning to a life affected by brain injury Many who think about groups, think it may just be coffee and a donut but they are so much more than that, groups for many are the only connection to society, any connection to any other person that is not a medical profession or pharmacist dish out medicines.   Groups get people into the c...

Things are not always as they seem… Hosted by Craig Sicilia and Cheryl Green After brain injury adjusting to the new you seems impossible but with time things will begin to fall into place sometimes in the most unthinkable ways.  Nine years into the new me I sit and wonder why?  The one thing I learned is that life is not fair.  But with a little help we find our way to a life that has meaning.  A...

As most of you know, the TBI Summer Camp just ended after a week of fun and fellowship. Our campers are just getting home and exhausted, but will tell how this 8th annual camp benefited them, and why they keep coming back! Recovery from brain injury can be a very lonely, depressing time ... Especially if your short on support. Meeting and interacting with others who have walked in those shoes, can...

Afraid of the Dark Hosted by Craig Sicilia With Special 'Guest Sonya Lee and Richard   Tonight’s monolog is about being in the dark, meeting people in that dark as we are looking for our own answers. Following the monolog I have a special interview with the following author. Sonya Lea the author of Wondering Who You Are and her Husband Richard, and they will share their story of all memories being...

I Remember – Hosted by Craig Sicilia First off we want to thank all the veterans out there for their service, and our deepest gratitude for all the men and woman who have sacrificed for our freedoms.  As a survivor a warrior in this epidemic so hidden that I don’t even know who I am a lot of the time.  I remember all the loss of friends and family and especially myself, or at least my old self. I...

SPECIAL EDITION - THE latenight GRIPE SHOW So you say you have a disability, yeah me too! All I can say is so what, sure it sucks and lots of things are not fair.  We still must live life.  It comes down to what we are going to do with our life.  I have spent years bumbling around since I acquired my brain injury.  I did everything out of order, I got some of the worst help you could imagine.  By...

Craig will be our roving reporter at the conference, speaking with renouned leaders in the TBI Community, and well known authors and poets. Contributions from the Amen Clinic and much more!! Join him for this live event, as it's happening!

March is brain injury awareness month, there are so many stories, so many successes that survivors have had.  Let us share some of those stories tonight.  Kind of an open mic night about brain injury stories.  Your story could be the story that helps someone through their challenges and hard times so please share your story tonight   Listen in tonight and make sure you call in and share your indiv...

A Disability Movement Tonight we will have a new episode with Cheryl Green and talk about her new upcoming movie “Who am I to Stop It” and maybe get one of the cast members in.  It’s an incredible story about survivors and their personal journeys. As Well we shall talk about our disability movement.  It has been a difficult journey for me as a person.  The last 7 years have seemed like 2 life-time...

EVERY BRAIN INJURY MATTERS - BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS – WITH Craig Sicilia Lots of new shows on brain injury radio, lots of new projects such as “CLOSING THE GAP IN BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS” awareness campaign, and tonight we will feature Mick Beaman, and his upcoming show starting in Feb, Lori Faitel as she shares the new on-line support groups that have been in live testing mode, having the bugs out...

I HAD A DREAM M.L.K. is the master of advocacy a advocacy that changes hearts and minds knowing it takes generations of advocacy and hard work he began a journey that was not popular in the minds of those who stood to lose the most and those they influenced.  It was a fight started a hundred years before him and will be going on a hundred years after.  But the king taught man to stand up for what...

2015 – THE YEAR OF CHANGE AND COLABORATION Here we go, into the first Monday after the holiday, for me holidays have consumed my inner energy, this year though, Year 8 I am ready to start my life again.  It has been like my life was on hold for 8 years thank God for the others like me I have found. If not for the others, I would have gone mad, no one could understand what I was dealing with includ...

Hosted by Craig Sicilia Join in as we ponder “Why” Here I go through what is my 8th Christmas, or holiday season, this time of year is the setting for my life as I knew it would slowly crumble over a couple of year period.  But at the same time the desperation of trying to figure out what the hell is going on.  This person with emotional burst of I don’t know what.  As well as an inner change of w...

prerecorded the frist show ever done

Tonight because of vacations, craig will be filling in for WTF to let anyone who is want to, have their chance to reach thousands of listeners with their message of hope or information on brain injury- have some interviews with command cornel Lee who has just retired after 25 years DVA Directors, as well intervies with theropiests at the VA Hospital, and ashoke talking about the caregivers among u...

How we react to change hosted by Craig Siclia Life is full of road blocks which are really oppurtunities to create change, change is always easiet for those creating or wanting it.  For a survivor change can bring a host of emotions, thoughts and idea's that may not be accurate.  Please listen and call in and share how you handle change, how it effects your daily life, and how you best control the...

RIP Chris - Sand Box #2 throwing sand - by Craig Sicilia Tonight we are going to remember Chris Bartlame as I finish up a second memorial of one of our TBI Leaders who has fought the fight before us and has passed on to a better place and some of his challenges promoting the survivor agenda in the 90's and what it was like then. We will transition to our sand box (tbi world) today and the struggle...

MY FRIEND RON WITH CRAIG SICILIA \ I want to honor ron a good friend a great advocate, a welcoming voice when we needed, I will have just finished his funeral and I want to share the emotion with you , Always love each other and never forget we are not perfect and forgive and forget if you can, Love is all we really have when we are done on this earth we can only judge our lives and no one elses

The Sand Box  Part One - Why there is not unity in the survivor movement Hosted By Craig Sicilia There is a reason that brain injury is the hidden or silent epidemic.  We try to get into the sand box but in no time at all the box is empty because we through so much sand in each others faces there we are in this sand box all the sand gone just us alone and nothing to do. It is true that brain injur...