Month: November 2013

Even if your “stuffed”, full of thanks or something else 🙂 … Come on in and bring your leftovers. If your brain feels drain from the family refrain, or your heart feels lonely for the Rockwell lost, or never achieved…Share the evening with us. We’ll all wear elastic waisted pants, kick off our shoes, relax and share what’s on our hearts and minds.

If you dare, make a 7 item gratitude list and share it with us. Let’s see how we can focus not on how life effects us, but how we can affect life…In a positive and loving way. This can be a difficult time of the year. Routines are turned upside down, mental baskets get full and tilt, the sensory overload can effect our relationships with others, and with ourselves. We can choose to be the tornado in life, or the gentle breeze. Whichever wind we resemble, blows through the life of countless others and makes its impact known.

We have an opportunity to find grace, forgive, and plot a way to make Merry through the rest of this holiday season. Recovery is about WE not ME. Tonight is about US, and how we can be part of the change we’d like to see in the world. Each day is a chance for a new beginning, and THAT is something to be thankful for. Whether you are from the USA or around the world, gratitude knows no boundaries.

Host is regular Wednesday night host of “Recovery Now”, Kim Justus. Fantastic Frank should be back from his tour in a couple weeks. Wishing him much success. 🙂 Hopefully lots of the other hosts will roll through as they land back at the farm. Hear that hosts?!

Kimberly is a former Olympic hopeful in the sport of equestrian show jumping, and current award-winning speaker, author, and “Champion-Overcomer.” Her insightful observations and compelling “outside the box,” proven success strategies are perceptively demonstrated through a unique and engaging presentation featuring her amazing story; which has been featured on TV, film, magazines, and in Kimberly’s books. Her valuable insights can only come from someone who’s nearly lost their life–and scratched and clawed their way back to success. Kimberly’s amazing life journey has presented seemingly “impossible” challenges. This former athlete has taken the word “impossible” out of her vocabulary and formulated proven success strategies that enabled her to become a Champion-Overcomer! See more at: www.speakerkimberlycarnevale.com

In 1998 her Olympic dream was cut short due to an accident that left her with brain injury. A series of other tragic events ensued in the following years, that further threatened her life.

Fantastic Frank is out on his excellent adventure to fame, while we “somewhere in middle America” are suddenly freezing our snowballs off! Actually, the white stuff is on the way, but everyone in town is on the rocks today, as the roads glaze over in ice, and the north winds howl.

Tonight the fire will be burning and hopefully the radio waves will be too. Unless of course the powerlines are effected, in which case one of our tropical hosts will have to grab the mic. 🙂

Music and chat, how bout that? I’ll have the tea kettle whistling, come on out and keep me company, as I attempt to fill the fantastic shoes…Though I’d rather try the cape. 🙂

Regular Wednesday host Kim Justus is filling in for Fantastic Frank. Call in and see how many co-hosts we can get tonight! Share a fond seasonal memory or bring a good joke. Let’s have some fun. No school tomorrow for me. 🙂 🙂

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

The regularly scheduled Fantastic Frank show will not be on tonight, due to Frank’s travels to stardom!

Instead, regular Wednesday host Kim Justus will fill in with…Something. 🙂 Tune in and see!

Help her pave the road. Music, open mic, a surprise guest, mindless chatter, or profound revelations? You just never know with her sometimes, especially on short notice. Come on down!!

Craig Phillips is a traumatic brain injury survivor and a master’s level certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC). His TBI occurred in 1967 when I was ten years old. He sustained an open skull fracture, then remained in a coma for three weeks with right frontal lobe damage and a severe brain bruise which involved the brain stem.

Craig created Second Chance to Live to share what he discovered through his process of living with a traumatic brain injury and an invisible disability for the past 46 years. He has since written 1140 articles and created 175 video presentations that have been uploaded to YouTube for people who learn better through watching and listening. He believes in the power of identification as a tool of recovery.

For more information go to: www.secondchancetolive.org

Dr. Lise’ DeLong, has undergraduate degrees in Special Education, Deaf Education and Music Therapy and holds a PhD in Neuropsychology with a sub-specialty in Neurocognitive Processing. She is a certified EMG Biofeedback Technician, a certified EEG Neurofeedback Technician, and a certified Practitioner of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CPCRT). Dr. DeLong was the founder of a private Not-For-Profit Fine Arts Elementary/Middle School working with brain injuries using Music, Dance, Drama, Language, and the Visual Arts. She has developed a process called NeuroCognitive therapy and has implemented this for the past 18 years in her private practice in Indiana and in California.

Keith Anthony needed a night off. I missed his message if one was left, so arriving home an hour late, I logged in to see “waiting for host.”

I took the liberty of logging in as pinch hitting host and am hoping nothing serious came up for him. Hopefully he just slept through the alarm.

Just played some great Indy Music & a few loose musings. Hopefully Keith Anthony will be back next week.