A Recovery Now

More will be revealed! A new brain injury risk added to all the others, and Winding Up Awareness Month. 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 through recovery. More will be revealed! This is a "we" recovery program, because it is in the "we," that we find t...

Hank Wallace will show you how to be “concise as news, precise as law.”  Hank leads the seminar Write & Speak Like the News: 9 Journalism Skills to Transform Your Communication Skills.  He was a reporter for New Jersey’s Middletown Courier and Red Bank Daily Register, he wrote the FCC’s plain-language newsletter and he’s a graduate of Columbia Law School. For more see: hankwallace.com This sho...

Eli Coberly is a world traveler and seeker of truth through adventure. At seventeen fulfilled his dream, becoming an Army paratrooper. At twenty, he was honorably discharged and began his search for a new dream. Eli’s writing has taken him worldwide to explore a few of the bigger questions of our human existence, and his prophetic worldview combines military service, counterculture, and the anthro...

More will be revealed! March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Join us to help the medical profession, caregivers, and other survivors to understand the near and long term effects of these injuries.  Focus on Financial Fitness! 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...

Fascinating Granddaughter of a Mormon Pioneer Reveals Her Own Harrowing Story of Fleeing from Fundamentalist Mormon Control in her Book “Escape Prisons of the Mind. This is Kaziah's Journey to Freedom. Kaziah Hancock is here to discuss Project Compassion. Powerful painted portraits of Americans killed in action as Memorials for the Fallen Hero's Families & the Power of Giving Back. To date, 2,...

Join Kim and Simon to discuss current events, and matters of life and the brain. Looking back, moving forward. Great to be able to resume our "Simon Says"  segment! 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 through recovery. More will be revealed! This is a "we...

Dr Mario Romanas is welcomed tonight to talk about Adaptive Disorder.  Adjustment aka Adaptive disorder is an excessive reaction to a stressful or traumatic event. Stressors could be a relationship issue, job problem, health change, or any other negative or positive life event. This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life's terms. We discuss useful...

Join Kim and Caren for a discussion on matters of the brain, and matters of life. After our injury, our self esteem (among other things) can be compromised. Tonight we'll be discussing strengths, skills, resiliance, and the fact that there IS Life after TBI.  Enjoy Valentine's Day - Treat yourself to something special - Love takes many forms. This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recov...

Kim, regular listener Ron and many others suffered the loss of a loved on this past year. If you are in the group, feel free to call and join us. The fact that grief from loss is a painful ongoing process goes without saying. One aspect not discussed quite as much is the "death business", from the Dr's, to mortuary, hospice, to SS, to insurance and much more. I heard things like "We prioritize you...

Mike Clavet suffered a TBI and PTSD on June 23, 2004 and has been fighting and advocating since. He is a Speaker and Writer on Neurology and Brain Injuries, as well as Human Rights and Economics. Mike Petitions Governments for Human  Rights and even files grievances against Judges ignoring Civil Rights. This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life'...

Join Caren and Kim with, Carole Starr about her journey back from brain injury, and how her life has changed. In 1999, Carole Starr sustained a brain injury in a car accident, which left her unable to return to her life as an educator and classical musician. Over time, Carole has reinvented herself. She’s now a national keynote speaker and the author of the award-winning book To Root & To Rise...

This year Christmas is not Merry and Bright for my family.  In fact this is perhaps the saddest Christmas I remember. I hear holidays sometimes work out that way.. Life, Death, Illness .. Sometimes even brain injury. I was gone last week. Couldn't do it. Too much shock then. Now numb and heartbroken. Maybe can't tonight. On thing I miss is the music right now. The "holidays" since just after Thank...

Merry and Bright are not always easy constants over the holidays. Bittersweet usually captures us at one point or another in the race from Thanksgiving to the New Year. Revisiting beloved traditions, missing those that are gone. How do you handle the holidays, with the challenge of Brain Injury?  Call me & share, and I'll be breaking out some seasonal tunes. We can do this :)  Join me! This sh...

Author, poet and musician Thomas Lane, will discuss new rlease The Karma Factor, a work of visionary fiction exploring the boundaries of human consciousness against the backdrop of a classic suspense thriller. With a purpose that transcends the genre, Lane expertly weaves the novel’s wider message in a ground-breaking, white-knuckle ride between worlds, as characters set out to make karmic amendme...

Happy Thanksgiving. On holidays like this some are filled with joy, and others..Not so much. Tonight we'll open the doors for a Thanksgiving, holiday kick off show with 2-3 of our hosts at Brain Injury Radio. Hope some others will join us. We're all about Peer Support, and want to be here for you, discussing Thanks (Gratitude) and Giving (Service). We'll discuss Thanksgiving itself, and perhaps sh...

John T. Krotec is an entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and army veteran.  After college, he went to work in corporate America and realized that despite doing well in the job, he wanted something more. He joined the Army later in life with the purpose of serving his Country. The Army taught him discipline and how to value himself. After three years of Active Duty, he left the Army and returned to civi...

Be it seasonal affective disorder or change in general, adjusting to the "New & Different" is never without it's challenges. Join Kim and Caren, call in and weigh in yourself too! 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 through recovery. More will be reve...

Second Hour Guest: Eliana Gilad is a TEDx presenter, motivational speaker, teacher, composer, and performer, and founder of Voices of Eden Ancient Wisdom and Healing Music Institute. Born in the United States, Eliana left for France in 1991 and then moved to Israel in 1994. Would you like to trust your silent voice and find your power, regardless of what others might think? Wouldn't it be great to...

Welcome back to Simon!!  After months of treatments and recovery, Simon is back On Air with us! Halloween is days away. Little back story on the occasion, and Simon's latest health journey. What scares you? With the approach of winter, now well into fall, comes the confusion on Covid going into 3rd yr. Many people believed when the President said Covid was over, that was fact. Others have counted...

How lovely would it be to always feel that you are protected, safe, loved and that everything is unfolding to supprt you? That’s the message and the method in Dr. Nancy Wiley’s gem of a book, Divine Trust, A Practical Guide to End Suffering and Find Your Way Home. By surrendering to Divine Trust, you can weather any or all of life’s storms with a peaceful grace that helps you over the peaking wave...

Caren and Kim will be hosting Kelly and Mike Lang, authors of The Miracle Child: Traumatic Brain Injury and Me.  See: themiraclechild.org Kelly’s brain injury advocacy career began after she and her 3-year-old daughter were injured in a horrific car accident in 2001. Kelly has served on the Board of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia and is a member of the Brain Injury Association of America...

Tonight we're going to be discussing Functional Neurology, Post Covid Syndrome, or Long Hauler's as some know it. Is Covid gone? Is PCS real? What IS real regarding the state of Covid now? Dr. Michael Lovich is a graduate of Rutgers University, and University of Western States Chiropractic School. He completed a Masters in Exercise and Sports Science concentrating in Clinical Sports Medicine at th...

Kim and Caren will be discussing the many matters of the brain, from injury impact, through what recovery will be, to adapting to what comes next and the possible add-on conditions from the original trauma. And what a long road it is. Introduction of some additional "help" resources  HOPE TBI Co-OP and the "Dear Joyce Exchange."  Discussion of PTSD/PTS.  Open Mic for anyway who would like to discu...

Brain Aneurysm Survivors speak out with personal stories, and we'll be discussing warning signs, treatments and other issues related to Awareness of a condition few but survivors know much about.  An estimated 6.5 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people. The annual rate of rupture is approximately 8 – 10 per 100,000 people. About 30,000 people in th...

Amber Eidem is Founder and current President of nonprofit The Precious Legacy (TPL)  that holds destination retreats for the young adult surviving children of service members that have died serving our Nation. Heaven Wadsworth TPL Board Secretary, and Military Survivors Advocate - Will be joining us. TPL does not practice bereavement hierarchy; every child grieves and is deserving of support, rega...