A Recovery Now

My guest is author & survivor Steve Gregory. Life is different now- we have a second chance – make use of it. This is what he tried to do at first by writing his book www.thejourneytipsandtales.com. Remember no matter how tough the going gets – never give up. When all odds were against him, he started his own business, and this gave him some sanity amidst all the confusion that was going on in...

Bob Calvert is the Founder and Host of the Talking With Heroes Talk Show www.talkingwithheroes.com and the Editor of our Online News Site www.thankyouforyourservice.us  Great stories on others, but his own is amazing too! The TalkingWithHeroes Program is not your average Radio Show. Since late 2005 we've been doing interviews with Active Duty Military from across our great Country and from 2006-20...

In 1995, Bartley Williams was a typical 16yr old, who had just gotten his driver's license. Life was good. He was playing football, had just seen a Beach Boys Concert, was enjoying the company of his girl...And then as happens far too often, an accident changed his life for good. Bartley will share his story with us, but even more, with his germinating interest in TBI Awareness. He is an adminstra...

Denise Mercado was a Military Mom who learned about HBOT when one son became an Army diver in the Special Forces 7th Group. Her youngest son, was born with developmental disabilities, so she became an advocate wanting to discover more effective treatment options. She went on to establish Fayetteville Hyberbarics. www.fayettevillehbot.com Dr Robert Ferguson became the Medical Director at the Fayett...

Ruth Lycke is a medically trained Nurse, Paramedic, Clinic Manager, Surgical Specialist, and Business Executive with over 34 years of experience. One of her areas of uniqueness is in her surviving a Pontine brain bleed in 2001 and becoming the first American stroke survivor to seek and receive treatment utilizing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in 2004. That event shaped her life and she spent...

Open Mic Night to share your positive memories of Brain Injury Radio as we kick off the week of our 4th Anniversary!  In addition, I would like to hear your happy jokes, ancedotes, goals, and desires. Last week, I covered grief and mourning. Like it or not,  those are also elements on a path of recovery. This week, we explore the other side of the coin. I also have several new Indie Artists to pla...

September 11, 2001 signaled a day of everlasting change for most of America. When we had our brain injuries, that process of ongoing grief and change, happened for us too. In both cases, many suffer not only from their injuries, but PTSD as well. Please call in tonight on this Eve of 9-11, when many of us revisit our grief from the country's tragedy, to those of our own. Collective mourning lends...

Larry Schutz, PhD, ABPP is a neuropsychologist with more than 30 years of experience in brain injury rehabilitation. He trained with the founders of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation and has since refined the methodology to develop an advanced 8-week program Self-Therapy for Adaptive Recovery (STAR). He is the author of the books Head Injury Recovery in Real Life and Rehabilitation of th...

In 2004, Kimberly Chapman suffered two ruptured brain aneurysms and was astounded by the lack of public awareness and sparse research of such a widespread and often fatal condition. Recognizing the need for brain aneurysm advocacy and other types of vascular malformations of the brain, she personally established several international support networks to provide information, resources and motivatio...

Tonight you bring the show to me! Share what's on your brain, kick back and listen to some great inspirational Indy Music. I'll be having a special drive thru, with was a wonderful former guest on my regular Wed Nite RecoveryNow show...Jeff Sebell, whose book is just HOT off the press. Join us as he shares a preview, and see more at www.lapublishing.com/sebell-survivor-support. Host Kim Justus, wh...

Medical science had determined, through doing transplants, that the memory passes at the cellular level, and that every cell in your body knows everything that has ever happened to you in your life. My guest is Mike Carey, who has been active in Alternative Healing for many years. His special "gift" of being able to read  bodies, has offered recovery for people all over the world, with many differ...

Want a place to hang & listen to some good tunes...Maybe chat a little as we roll into Sunday?  Another Sat Nite and I Ain't got Nobody... Sing Along!  See you there.

  Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Lifein Heavy Metal. His non-fiction book, Candyfreak, was a New York Times Bestseller. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his most recent collection,God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for...

Regular Recovery Now contributor Dr Maria Romanas is back to discuss a familiar issue in our community! "Most brain deficits are not constant skill deficiencies. They only make trouble at certain times and in certain places—this is why we call them “Brain Injured Moments” or BIMs. Learn where, when, and how you make them so you can stop making them. To teach yourself these lessons, you should fill...

Join me tonight with Rhonda Smith. Rhonda has been providing numerology readings and counseling for over 40 years both on and off line, and has been, since 2002, and continues to be a columnist for The Sedona Journal of Emergence. She also is a contributing author to the Shift anthologies: The Sacred Shift, Co-Creating Your Future...in a New Renaissance and Creating Your Own Shift. In order to bet...

My guests tonight will be Dr. Bart Billings, Retired as US Army Medical Service Corp Officer serving 34 years in US Army, his highest ranking as Colonel. He was Director/Founder International Civilian & Military Combat Stress Conference & Recipient of Human Rights Award for 2014 from CCHR International. See his site at bbillings@omnisonic.com. Dr. Chrisanne Gordon, who has experienced TBI...

Tonight along with open mic to hear about your requests for programming, sharing what's on your bean, or just kicking back and listening to the great music! Not to mention new host try outs if you think you'd like your own show. We are going to have a perhaps spirited conversion about TBI Survivors, who are arrested and then denied due process. I had an interesting call from a listening this morni...

Janelle Breese, RPC, is an author, speaker, and counselor with expertise in grief, loss, life transitions, and brain injury. She resides with her family in Victoria, BC. She is the author of A Change of Mind: One Family’s Journey through Brain Injury and the soon to be released book, Life Losses: Healing for a Broken Heart. Visit her website at www.janellebb.com and follow her on Facebook at www....

The hosts work hard all week, so now it's your turn to bring the show to us! Call in and talk about what's on your mind, and listen to some great Indy music.  Hope the camping hosts are having fun! While they're away...Let's play, play, play!! :) Hosted by Kim Justus and anyone else who wants to take the leap, and share a peep.

  Carole Starr, M.S. is the founder and facilitator of the Maine-based volunteer group Brain Injury Voices. Carole sustained a brain injury in a car accident in 1999, which changed her life dramatically. Her inspirational keynote speech “Never Give up on Happiness” has been well received by brain injury survivors, medical professionals and students. In 2010, Carole co-founded the volunteer group B...

When something burst inside David's head, both Donna and David's lives changed forever. Before each of David's three brain surgeries, Donna had only one request of David's surgeons. She implored, "I don't care how you give David back to me, just give him back to me." David did return to Donna, but as a different person. Donna fell in love all over again with this newer version of her husband. Davi...

Hope you had a safe and Happy 4th of July, and if you use the whole weekend to celebrate... Same goes. :) Tonight is Open Mic Saturday. This is where YOU build the show, and I just open the door. Call in with what's on YOUR mind, and listen to some fine Indy music in between. Hope to see you there for fellowship and fun!     

  Dr. Cheryle Sullivan practiced Family Medicine for nearly 20yrs. She's always had an interest in patient and community education as well as prevention. In 2003 she made a career shift due to residual cognitive deficits from a 2002 mild traumatic brain injury following 5 previous concussions. She now devotes her time to spreading the word about BI and helping those living who live with it find wa...

"Attention is a mental control system that lets you adjust how hard you think about something. Because brain damage weakens attention, a good recovery depends on deliberately thinking a bit harder about many things. There is a special need to pay more attention to tasks as they get harder. Mental effort is also a self-therapy tool that can reduce or neutralize cognitive deficits. So “powering up”...

Mike Idell's show was killed earlier by technical difficulty. Be sure to tune into his next show. It happens to all of us hosts...But it's always a shame when we've prepared. Sorry Mike. Tonight Kim Justus will host open mic & Indy music for a while. This is not her regular show, which is found on Hump Night (Wed)...But maybe you guyscan make the show, Mike can come back & take over trying...