Barbara and Dawn co-facilitate journaling groups for people with brain injury, based on Barbara’s book, After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story. They have witnessed how the writing and sharing short of journal entries has great power for fostering healing after brain injury has altered people’s lives.
Dawn Westfall, MS, CCC-SLP, received her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Eastern Illinois University. She works at HealthSouth Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital, where she has specialized in treating adults with brain injuries for the last 22 years. For 12 years she assisted with developing and managing a community rehabilitation program that assisted individuals to live independently.
Barbara Stahura, Certified Journal Facilitator, since 2007 guided people with brain injury, family caregivers, and others in harnessing the power of therapeutic journaling for healing and well-being. Co-author of the acclaimed After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, the first journaling book for people with brain injury. A member of the faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute and of the Lash & Associates Speakers Bureau on Brain Injury. http://www.barbarastahura.com