BEST Executive Director, Gloria Kraegel, loves the fall bounty from the garden. Here’s one of her favorite and healthy fall go-to-recipe for family and friends. It’s a delicious recipe that just screams harvest bounty! Enjoy! Ingredients 1 medium acorn squash dried cranberries chopped walnuts 1 tablespoon butter (room temperature) 1 teaspoon brown sugar or 2 (more…)
Robin Spicuzza had these roles in life: an energetic and loving mom, businesswomen, investor, web expert, and volunteer. A car accident in 2011 changed those roles significantly. Robin sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI); worse, it wasn’t diagnosed right away. Faced with the challenges that came with an undiagnosed TBI, she struggled to find support, (more…)
(Editor’s note: Writer, stroke survivor and BEST Guest Blogger, Isaac Peterson, shared his insights, thoughts and reflections on the first anniversary of his stroke last year. Today, as he looks back after two years, he’s been able to fill in some gaps from the past and celebrate his journey forward into the future, even more. (more…)
(Editor’s note: BEST is delighted to welcome guest blogger, Marc Macialek of recoveringfromtbi.com, to the BEST website blog! Marc gives us some excellent insight, advice and information about neuroplasticity and brain injury awareness in his first article. Thank you, Marc! KT) After my traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the spring of 2012, I learned how (more…)
You only have your thoughts and dreams ahead of you. You are someone. You mean something. Batman 🦇 Yes, really. Batman was onto something! It took real-life superhero, Robin Spicuzza, some time after her traumatic brain injury (TBI) to regain her superpowers of meaning and being; with help from fellow BEST Superheroes and super-powered tools, she (more…)
(Editor’s note: What’s the definition of community? Writer and stroke survivor, Isaac Peterson, has an excellent, must-read definition of our community in his latest article. KT) Since I got a traumatic brain injury (TBI) of my very own, I’ve seen many references to the TBI community, but I’ve never really seen that community described or (more…)
