Exploring Dreams and How to Get Them to Work for You

(Editor’s note: Guest blog contributor Isaac Peterson explores dreaming and how your dreams can work for you in a positive way.  Enjoy! KT)  If this idea works, it could be a way to literally make your dreams come true. I’ve written about using visualization to achieve goals before. To put it in a nutshell, visualization (more…)

In Words and Pics: BEST’s Kim Thompson Tells All About BEST Art

Hi everyone! This is Kim Thompson, BEST’s Communications Manager. I recently took a little field trip to the beautiful Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) in downtown Tacoma, Washington. I got some pics and made a little video. It was so much fun! Special thanks needs to go to BEST volunteer, Erin Thompson, who shot and edited (more…)

The Art of Empowerment: Individualism

While art is indeed about individualism, the Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) also believes that empowerment is about individualism, too.  Each person in the brain injury community has their own unique form of personal empowerment. That’s why at BEST, we help people with tools, strategies and resources to help them tap into their own kind (more…)

Your Voice: Transportation

Rooted in Rights, the video advocacy project of Disability Rights Washington, wants to interview people in Washington State for a series of videos highlighting how Initiative 976 will harm those of us who need transit to get around.  Do you rely on public transit? What would happen if your route or the bus schedule you rely on (more…)

Part 2: TBI and Mental Health

(Editor’s Note: Writer and BEST Guest Blog Contributor, Isaac Peterson, shares part two of a two part article on brain injury and mental health. Here’s what he’s learned. KT).  I hope you liked my previous article, about a man who survived a steel rod going all the way through his skull and survived. His case (more…)