A Recovery Now

Chris Nowinski is co-founder and executive director of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the sports concussion crisis through education, policy, and research. He also serves as co-director of the BU CTE Program. Nowinski also serves on the NFL Players Association Mackey-White TBI Research Committee, the Ivy League Concussion Committee, Positive Coachi...

Last week we heard from Charlie, an ABI survivor .. This week we'll be hearing from the other half, in another family. Just under 5yrs ago .. The lives of Ken and Judy took a turn, that would alter BOTH of their lives forever. This dynamic is playing out in so many homes arcoss the world. Not only do we survivors experience major life changes, but loved ones and caregivers are faced with their own...

Charlie was 42yrs old and in the process of trying out for AAA baseball with the Texas Rangers. He was happy, life was good .. Then he got the phone call after a routine physical, that would change his life forever. This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life's terms. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey thr...

Dr. Stephen Larsen funded Stone Mountain Center in 1989.. After twenty years of seeing biofeedback enhance quality of life for the college students he taught, Dr. Larsen decided to bring its healing and optimizing influence to his psychotherapy practice. The results were so positive that in 1996 he retired from his psychology professorship and went into full time clinical practice and writing. In...

My guest is Debra Pyka, a mother who is trying to bring awareness to not only prevent suicide, but to warn of the dangers of sports and head trauma to our youth. She will be discussing her son Joseph's life story, playing sports, CTE which led to years of depression and ultimately, his suicide. Joseph's brother Seth will join us, since they played sports all through their childhood together. She h...

Dr Cheryle Sullivan worked solo many years, as a family physician in private practice in Michigan and as a family physician-clinic administrator in Colorado. In 2002, a skiing accident caused a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that ended Dr. Sullivan’s medical career. Dr. Sullivan now follows her passion, raising awareness about brain injury among the general public as well as in health care providers...

Marcy Mudd's family was going along great, until daughter Madeline was struck by tragedy. Many of the survivors we speak with, were adults when they faced the reality of life and death situations. Tonight we'll here from a mother and daughter who faced down the monster of an aneurysm, how they handled it, and why circumstances led them to become very vocal advocates through JoeNiekroFoundation.org...

Dr. Michael Lewis is a renowned expert on brain health, particularly the use of omega-3 fatty acids for the prevention, management, and rehabilitation of concussions and traumatic brain injury (TBI). He founded the Brain Health Education and Research Institute in late 2011 when he retired as a Colonel after a distinguished 31-year career in the U.S. Army. His pioneering work has helped countless t...

Cynthia Stein LPT MEdIs a licensed physical therapist in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.  She specializes in treating concussion patients who do not get better with standard vestibular care.  She owned Squirrel Hill Physical therapy for many years where she specialized in alternative treatment techniques such as craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, lymphatic drainage therapy and nasal release techni...

Michael was a Special Educator in New York City for 26 years helping pioneer the use of digital video and computers by engaging hundreds of language-impaired students in tech activities promoting metacognition, communication and volition. After retirement he worked to promote the use of technology with special education and to promote neurodiverse creativity n the Arts. He has presented at confere...

In recognition of Brain Injury Awareness Month, we'll be featuring several survivor's who have become published authors about their journeys. We all have a story. If you doubt your ability to voice it by becoming an author, you may reconsider. For others looking for survivor stories and how they've learned to cope-You'll have a wide variety to choose from here. Great show you can listen to an auth...

Gary Sinclair is a Cyberphysiologist and winner of Outstanding Transpersonal Contribution, in the field of Bridging Body, Mind & Spirit. In his personal life, he has overcome 50% lung capacity at birth to full, 14 years of MS with 80% mobility loss to healed, and recently 14 strokes with paralysis to no signs of a stroke in each case within 30 minutes. This is one interview YOU MUST HEAR and y...

Dr Maria Romanas is back in the house! As a Dr of Pathology, and a Brain Injury Survivor .. Dr Maria blends scientific based knowledge, with the human challenges of being a survivor. The past year has been a whirlwind of change for her, and for people who function best with routine, transition can really rock our boat! Maria's professional and personal life were limited by a severe TBI suffered du...

Kimberly Archie lead the safety crusade in youth sports and the push for cheer to be classified as a sport with science based research that set off a media blitz of injury stories in 2008 from People magazine to the Washington Post. Her tireless efforts and "never take no for an answer" resolve resulted in a Government Accountability Office investigation called by Congressional leaders into the yo...

Catherine Brubaker is a two-time brain injury survivor. She re-learned how to walk and talk twice and in 2014 she rode her recumbent cycle 5390 miles across the United States to take back her life. As she began telling her story, others began telling her theirs and she realized she was not alone. It was during that journey she realized that people did not see her disability and were unaware of the...

Our Regular host Kevin is feeling under the weather tonight. Last minute fill in, so it's YOUR night. Call in and share what's on your mind and heart .. Or listen to some great Indie Music, and me pontificate!! Come on .. Keep me company as we kick off the weekend!  :)

Dr. Steven DeKosky is the Aerts-Cosper Professor of Alzheimer’s Research at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and the Interim Executive Director of McKnight Brain Institute. He also serves as Associate Director of the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UF. He moved to the University of Pittsburgh in1990 as Professor of Psychiatry (primary) and Neurology, and from 1992-200...

My guest tonight is Timothy Guetling, who suffered his brain injury in 1972. Timothy is SSGI retired 2013. The recurring repercussions caught him off guard, but he was able to work, paying income/payroll taxes for 40 years. Little was known about brain injury back then, and repeated TBI's altered his ability to perform as he once did. Now he is on several TBI,PTSD, BI/Disabled Groups offering his...

Karen Newell is an innovator in the emerging field of brainwave entrainment audio meditation, Karen empowers others in their own journeys of discovery. Along with Dr Eben Alexander, they healing in new ways! Meditation & heart awareness were central elements to her many different subjects of study. But Karen found it extremely challenging to sit still with focused attention for any length of t...

James Robertson is a TBI survivor who was knocked into a coma for four days right before his junior year of high school started.  His right frontal brain lobe was bruised and a few connectors were sheered off in a brutal car accident which changed him forever by hot wiring his brain to put out an intensity that he calls "Pure Faith Awesomeness!”  His story is a testimony to the power of positivity...

My guest tonight is James Durham III, friends call him Jimmy Jam. He had done many different jobs, but his main focus has been in real estate property management, specifically apartments. Talking to people, helping people get a good place to live and just helping people in general, has always been something he likes to do. He never sits still always working, working out, having fun, and being posi...

After decades as a physician and teacher at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere, renowned academic neurosurgeon, Dr. Eben Alexander, thought he knew how the brain, mind, and consciousness worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection changed all of that– completely. He has spent the last seven years since his NDE reconciling his...

My guest will be Peter Hoecherl discussing bias treatment by law enforcement, and what a tangled web that can be weaved. He will walk us through things to watch out for, and new resources to be aware of to protect ourselves. When trouble knocks, we need to be educated in helpful resources ourselves. Advocacy doesn't come easy. For a "Vulerable Adult" he hasn't done too bad! Peter suffered TBI's in...

Here we go into 2016 A New Year, the best year so far, let us bring it in together, sharing our successes and failures.  We all have some of each, let share so we all can have the best year yet, 2016 is going to be incredible, best ever.  In 2015 we made lots of changes, lots of new leaders and a philosophy to let those things fail that are meant to fail.   And to let those things succeed that are...

Unfortunately Randy had a heart attack over the holidays, so was not able to make this show. We pray for his complete recovery & reschedule this program. The show did go on .. But Randy was missed.