Month: July 2023

In 2017, Megan Bacigalupo survived a near-fatal brain hemorrhage while riding a bike. After this life-changing event, she wrote an essay in early recovery, titled In the Cobwebs of My Mind. This piece brought forth a vision impossible to ignore and gave birth to this book project. Newly released In theCobwebs of My Mind the book, now on Amazon & Barnes and Noble! Dreams and Goals DO come true 🙂 J. Hatter is an insightful talented Poet, Amazing pencil sketching, and has even written/recorded a song! Check out his poetry book offering at Amazon called “The Words You Cannot Say” by J L Hutchinson. (Also name of his song), and Poetry show on Blog Talk Radio, Saturday nights called Team of Voices when “Hatter” is featured!

My guests for tonight are Marshele Carter Waddell & Dr. Kelly Orr, PhD, ABPP…Who penned Wounded Warrior,Wounded Home. (Amazon) When a combat veteran struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI), every member of the family experiences the effects. Spouses, parents, and children must undergo changes on the home front, a process that resembles the phases of grief. Confusion, hurt, anger, guilt, fatigue, and fear lie behind their brave smiles and squared shoulders. Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home gives hurting families a look inside the minds and hearts of wounded warriors and guides them in developing their own personal plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness in the wake of war. The authors, one the wife of a career US Navy SEAL and the other a clinical psychologist and Vietnam veteran, speak from their own experiences of living with PTSD and TBI. They also share insights from dozens of families and careful research, offering readers/listeners a hope-filled way forward.

Matthew D. Dovel is the president and founder of International Suicide Prevention (supportisp.org), a 501(c)(3) public charity nonprofit. Mr. Dovel has been using this organization to apply the new psychology, Nu-Rekall® to treat mental disorders in real life scenarios, proving their effectiveness and permanency, since 2006. Nu-Rekall® systems are unique in that they’re the only mental health treatments that innate an immediate spontaneous remission from the symptoms associated with mental disorders. Mr. Dovel is the only specialist in neuropsychology able to assess, and treat, high risk individuals over the phone permanently, in one session, and all in fewer than 10 minutes. Dr. Dovel authored a book called My Last Breath, appeared on 20-20, I Survived .. Beyond and Back, Good Morning America, and has been featured in many other venues. Also at YouTube. The scope of his experience is broad and unconventional, as are his thoughts on more traditional therapy’s. He is currently developing the architecture for future Artificial Intelligence mimicking actual human thought. Machine learning lead engineer teaching artificial intelligence how to identify when humans need assistance after a trauma, and how to help in real time.

Kim and Caren will be discussing matters of the brain. What is Cognition? What happens to processing, understanding and focus. They will be explaining cognitive communication, cognitive evaluation, therapies, and more. Long Covid and Vax Reacts are showing similar cognition issues in common in recent studies.

Simon and I normally do our show on the LAST WEDNESDAY of each month .. However this time, we’re going to kick off the new month & recognize our Independence .. Before and After Brain Injury. I was sick last week, so we deferred to now. Thanks Simon 🙂 Over the evolution of brain injury and the study of pain, in recent years old original assumptions have shifted. It used to be said that the brain didn’t feel pain. Now science is recognizing that the brain has connections to issues of chronic pain, that loop back to specific parts of the brain. One such discovery comes by the name of Central Sensitization, or Central Sensitivity Syndromes. Our brain injuries can and do alter our central nervous system, and cause a convergence of chronic pain conditions, adding to our original BI residuals. We are not Dr’s, only survivors who crack the books and pass on information of interest, that hopefully you find helpful.