Lalli

TBI Butterflies: Healing Conversations

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Medical knowledge saves lives while deeper healing truly comes when we begin to understand the WHOLE person through their lived experiences. Once of the major questions marks in the brain injury landscape is that it's invisible and it's symptoms and impairments are illogical, irrational, and wildly intense. This podcast seeks to bring a better and safer understanding to the realities of brain injury survivors. Its intent is to help bridge the experience for all impacted by brain injury. Few of us survivors have the ability to articulate our experiences, Lalli, never lost that ability and after...

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EP3: Managing Emotions After Brain Injury W/Faith 06.09.2025 32:47

After exploring the complexities of emotions after brain injury Faith Bencomo and I felt there was a responsibility to give you all more guidance. Here are some ways we have learned to navigate and manage brain injury. Please leave other ways in the comments like , "5 min brain breaks" (which I accidentally forgot to mention). May these perspectives and suggestions be helpful for you and your love...

EP 2: Emotions After Brain Injury W/Faith 06.09.2025 29:45

Emotions after brain injury are complexly isolating, confusing, disorienting, frustrating, overstimulating and so much more! This episode I bring in my dear friend Faith Bencomo. She is also a TBI survivor who has been going through this journey alongside me for 6+ years. Combined with our ability to express and the wisdom in which we have gained we deep dive these complexities of how emotions sho...

EP1 Bonus: It Was The Death Of Me- Poem 06.09.2025 3:50

I wrote a poem that I wanted to share that truly ties into Episode 1. Take a listen, may it resonate with you.

EP1: IT WAS THE DEATH OF ME 06.09.2025 21:28

Brain Injury changed my entire life. I had to grieve the death of the old me. I had to learn to navigate an entirely new me. It WAS the death of me. In this episode, I am introducing myself and the 4 traumatic brain injuries I endured in a 16 month time period starting in 2018 that shifted the course of my reality and life. A course I am grateful for. One I used to fight tooth and nail but now emb...