March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month.  March is an important month for sharing, caring, and having important conversations about brain injury and brain injury awareness.  The Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) is excited to announce our theme for 2019’s awareness month: Super Self-Care.  BEST will be exploring different ways that we can practice self-care, such (more…)

Valuable Relationships: Doctors and Caregivers

In the last year and a half, I’ve discovered a couple of valuable relationships I’d been missing out on before my traumatic brain injury (TBI): a primary care doctor and a caregiver. I never had those relationships because I did the most boneheaded thing I’ve ever done:  I didn’t see a doctor for years. If (more…)

Be True to Yourself

(Editor’s Note: Writer Isaac Peterson has shared his journey forward after having a stroke in November 2016 on this blog. Today, he shares his personal self-care strategies, that are not only beneficial for fellow survivors, but are terrific tips for everyone and anyone. Enjoy! K.T.) I’ve been told that self-care is kind of a hot (more…)