Dr Maria Romanas is back in the house! As a Dr of Pathology, and a Brain Injury Survivor .. Dr Maria blends scientific based knowledge, with the human challenges of being a survivor. The past year has been a whirlwind of change for her, and for people who function best with routine, transition can really rock our boat!
Maria’s professional and personal life were limited by a severe TBI suffered during a roll-over car accident in 1984. She doesn’t have an outwardly obvious disability, but cognitive impairments were compromising her quality of life.
In spring 2013, Dr Maria went through an 8-week program of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation (HCR) that trained her to become her own self-therapist. She learned exactly what was wrong with her brain and how to deliberately use her conscious mind to prevent her impairments from causing disabled functioning. She has be gracious enough to share those tools with us in the past. Now once again life on life’s terms, has her revisiting all tools she accumulated to maintain a stable life.