A Recovery Now

Dr. Adrian Harel, is owner and president of MediCortex, operating in Israel and the US. Now in the R&D stage, the company’s goal is to bring a new multifunctional drug or innovative treatment to the market that will prevent or reduce secondary accelerated symptoms of traumatic brain injury and neurological dysfunction. Dr. Harel was educated primarily in Israel, earning advanced degrees in bot...

Tonight we'll talk about the theuraputic effect that music has, listen to some great Indy Artists, and hear your experience with music as a cathartic tool of recovery. Call in and discuss your thoughts about music, what music stirs inside your soul, and have some fun. After all, it's Saturday Night! :)  If you're around, "Let's Party"!  Come and hang out, call in, or tune in and enjoy! Open mic di...

My guest tonight on Recovery Now, is Barbara J. Webster, author of Lost and Found, A Survivor’s Guide forReconstructing Life After a Brain Injury, available through Lash Publishing. In 1991, Barbara suffered a TBI when her car skidded off a slippery road and was totaled. Like so many others, she was not diagnosed properly and suffered the ills of too many  survivors. We will travel through her jou...

I will be discussing New Year, New Beginnings. Not big on resolutions...More like letting go of old nonproductive thinking, and embracing a new positive focus for change in 2014. Bite size pieces, obtainable to all in recovery. Will be introducing a new host beginning Janauary 11th & then the 2nd Saturday of each month, Michele Jones. Her show will be called Brain Changers. Her show is for Bra...

We'll wind down the long 48 hour holiday, and concentrated seasonal sensory overload, by kicking back, sharing some tunes, and trading some chat. How did your holiday seaso go? Roast those final chestnuts, take in the fire and twinkling lights...And join me. :) This show, Recovery Now is a gathering placefor anyone seeking recoveryfrom the challenges of life on life's terms. I introduce topics, an...

As an accomplished athlete, author Catherine (Catz) LeBlanc knew the risks of sports injuries. As a physician’s assistant, she knew how the brain and body work. But the concussion she sustained in a team handball game was compounded by a rear end high speed auto-truck collision 2 months later – and her life changed completely. Unable to find the hope, reassurance and inspiration she needed while s...

This show is a gathering placefor anyone seeking recoveryfrom the challenges of life on life's terms. I introduce topics, and survivor's share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery. More will be revealed! Tune in, stop in and call in. This is a "we" recovery program, because it is in the "we," that we find...

Two part show tonight! The Science Of Happiness, host Lori Faitel will be joining me to tell us details about the changes to our Peer Support Line. I encourage the audience and our hosts to listen. Lori will be in the road, so we'll keep her as long as we can and also hear more about her show and the new earlier platform. Open mics, new Indy's and breaking out the first few holiday tunes. I talked...

Kimberly is a former Olympic hopeful in the sport of equestrian show jumping, and current award-winning speaker, author, and "Champion-Overcomer." Her insightful observations and compelling "outside the box," proven success strategies are perceptively demonstrated through a unique and engaging presentation featuring her amazing story; which has been featured on TV, film, magazines, and in Kimberly...

Fantastic Frank is out on his excellent adventure to fame, while we "somewhere in middle America" are suddenly freezing oursnowballs off!  Actually, the white stuff is on the way, but everyone in town is on the rocks today, as the roads glazeover in ice, and the north winds howl. Tonight the fire will be burning and hopefully the radio waves will be too. Unless of course the powerlines are effecte...

Barbara and Dawn co-facilitate journaling groups for people with brain injury, based on Barbara’s book, After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story. They have witnessed how the writing and sharing short of journal entries has great power for fostering healing after brain injury has altered people’s lives. Dawn Westfall, MS, CCC-SLP, received her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Eastern...

The regularly scheduled Fantastic Frank show will not be on tonight, due to Frank's travels to stardom! Instead,regularWednesday host Kim Justus will fill in with...Something. :)  Tune in and see! Help her pave the road. Music, open mic, a surprise guest, mindless chatter, or profound revelations? You just never know with her sometimes, especially on short notice. Come on down!!

Craig Phillips is a traumatic brain injury survivor and a master’s level certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC). His TBI occurred in 1967 when I was ten years old. He sustained an open skull fracture, then remained in a coma for three weeks with right frontal lobe damage and a severe brain bruise which involved the brain stem. Craig created Second Chance to Live to share what he discovered throu...

Dr. Lise' DeLong, has undergraduate degrees in Special Education, Deaf Education and Music Therapy and holds a PhD in Neuropsychology with a sub-specialty in Neurocognitive Processing. She is a certified EMG Biofeedback Technician, a certified EEG Neurofeedback Technician, and a certified Practitioner of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CPCRT).   Dr. DeLong was the founder of a private Not-For-Pr...

Keithanthony needed a night off. I missed his message if one was left, so arriving home an hour late, I logged in to see "waiting for host." I took the liberty of logging in as pinch hitting host and am hoping nothing serious came up for him. Hopefully he just slept through the alarm. Just played some great Indy Music & a few loose musings. Hopefully Keithanthony will be back next week. Kim Ju...

Peggy Reisher, MSW, became the executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska (BIA-NE) in July 2013. Prior to that, she worked for the BIA-NE for six years as director of Programs and Services and as the director of the Nebraska Veterans Brain Injury Task Force program. www.biane.org Reisher’s leadership has been the driving force in establishing the Nebraska Veterans Brain Injury...

Lindsey O'Connor is an author, a freelance journalist, and a speaker who has contributed to public radio's Weekend America, WashingtonPost.com, The Rocky Mountain News, Christianity Today, Writer's Digest, Guideposts, and others. She has reported internationally, is a former broadcaster, was a finalist for an Audie Award, and is a member of The Association of Independents in Radio and the American...

Overcoming enormous physical, mental, and emotional odds, Vietnam verteran William A. Roper has walked the road of devastating traumatic brain and bodily injury all the way to physical thriving and spiritual awakening. Now he is sharing his method and the journey. A student of meditation and New Thought, William's mission is to express his gratitude for his own healing by assisting veterans suffer...

Bill Keck is a dear friend who recently suffered a TBI. He's had a lengthy road of recovery the past couple years, and then a car accident too. Bill has always been strong as a bull, and few have had a more colorful past and turn around. Prior to his retirement, Bill, a US Navy Veteran who did two tours in Nam, developed an alcohol and drug treatment center, within Siena Francis House Homeless She...

Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler, Ed. D. is a Neuropsychologist, Board Certified Health Psychologist, Board Certified Sports Psychologist, and Trauma Therapist with over 35 years experience. In 1990, Dr. Diane had a stroke while driving her car, resulting in a 60 mph head-on auto accident. She has since undergone brain surgery, and sustained two more concussions. From her experience and expertise, Dr. Dia...

My guest is SgtMaj Pepe Ramirez USMC (Ret), President and CEO of Combat Vets Helping Combat Vets, Inc. He is part of their Combat Vets Counseling Team. He had three tours in Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003, 2004 & 2006). He interned at Spalding Rehab Hospital, which specializes in treating amputees, strokes, and Traumatic Brain Injuries. SgtMaj Ramirez has held more billets, and earned more mili...

Kerri Brantley is a Captain in the Missouri Army National Guard and native of Boise, Id. She recently moved to Maryland, where she is a writer/editor for Joint Hometown News Service at Fort George G. Meade. Kerri is still active in the Army National Guard. She joined to provide for her family and serve her country. Kerri is a single-mom and combat Vet who is currently working on her masters in Man...

Help me figure that one out! I will be pinch hitting once more this evening. Craig is out on a mission, some hosts are MIA...So I'm holding down the fort. Hmmmm, is everyone but me out on Saturday nights?!  Thankfully our southern gentleman Tuesday host LesPaul Morgan and Annie Ricketts joined me. I'm feeling rode hard and put up wet. You ever get like that? hahaha  Asked and answered!  Been on Se...

This is a powerful show you won't want to miss!  Whetheryou've survived a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or a personal tradegy like our brain injuries, we all have a common bond. My guest tonight is Anthea Appeal, who spent 20yrs with the NYC Police Dept. She was a first responder on 9-11, retired shortly after, and will share her experience with us.  www.antheaappel.com My second guest was...

Wait & see.  :)  Don't refrain or drain your brain. Come and join us...Go insane!  Brush your mane, drop your cane. Forget your pain on Brain Injury Lane. What kind of smarty pants would think of that?! Penny & Kathy...If it's your show...Feel free to change the notes, or have some fun living up to them. :)