Inside Looking Out

(Editor’s note: Writer and stroke survivor, Isaac Peterson, penned a beautiful personal essay about navigating through these unprecedented times with a traumatic brain injury. Please read on (you’ll be glad you did). Thank you, Isaac. KT).  Reality has become seriously unreal lately. I hope I don’t have to explain what I mean.  Right now most (more…)

Brain Injury Facts

  (Editor’s note: Writer, BEST guest blog contributor, and brain injury survivor, Isaac Peterson, shares a special article on brain injury facts. Read on for details. Thank you, Isaac! KT)  When I first began contributing to blogs, all I knew about traumatic brain injuries (TBI) was that I had one, it was a full-time job, (more…)

Migraine Resources

The dictionary definition of migraine:    mi·graine /ˈmīˌɡrān/   noun noun: migraine; plural noun: migraines a recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision. “I’m getting a migraine.”   As brain injury survivors, the real definition goes beyond the standard dictionary one: for some, migraines (more…)

Fatigue and Brain Injury

Recently,  BEST Communications Manager, Kim Thompson (yours truly), answered community questions via video response.  Thank you so much for your questions and topics!  Speaking of topics, I received two important topics from our BEST friend, Sue P. She suggested covering the topics of fatigue and brain injury and migraine and brain injury.  Thank you, Sue, (more…)

Online Resources and More!

Words. Pictures. Video. Virtual Platforms.  BEST Online Resources are at the ready! Here’s your guide to getting started.  Words: At the Brain Energy Support Team (BEST),  sharing our personal stories and journeys are important to us. Finding the words and putting those words to the keyboard or to paper, makes a difference, not only for us (more…)

BEST Awarded Top TBI Blog Honor

The Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) was recently honored by Feedspot.com for having one of the top 30 brain injury blogs internationally. From the Feedspot website: The Best Traumatic Brain Injury blogs from thousands of Traumatic Brain Injury blogs in our index using search and social metrics. We’ve carefully selected these websites because they are actively (more…)