Kim’s Radio Shows

Ok so maybe “Dropping & Giving Ten” isn’t practical anymore. In fact, a few of us may not be able to get back up! Maybe our routine has changed, but exercise is still an important ingredient to overall good health. Simon and Kim will be discussing exercise alternatives, for both mind & body. We welcome calls about great/safe/helpful alternatives you have found. Since the world has changed a great deal since this show was booked, we will be doing a “Mental Health” check ..

Elizabeth Sandel, MD, is a medical director for Paradigm, which leads the workers’ compensation industry in solving complex health-care challenges and improving lives. A Clinical Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, past president of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is a panelist for national Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines Program. Her new book: Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion explores Dr. Sandel’s three decades treating patients with TBI’s, training clinicians, and conducting research. Here she explains the scientific evidence for what happens to the brain and body after a concussion. She shares stories from a diverse group of patients, educating readers on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. More at: elizabethsandelmd.com Today concussions aren’t just injuries—they’re big news. And, like any-thing in the news, they’re the subject of much misinformation. Shaken Brain is the resource patients and their families, friends, and caregivers need to understand how concussions occur, what to expect from healthcare providers, and what the long-term consequences may be.

Kim and Caren will be discussing the basics of Brain Injury in an effort to raise up the understanding, as we begin Brain Injury Awareness Month. Among the topics discussed will be: Mindfulness Techniques, Meditation, Positive Psychology, EMDR and other holistic techniques. Building bridges and synapses the Non Pharma way!

My guest tonight will be Catz LeBlanc to talk about sports, repeated concussion, and her new exciting series! Catz had two roommates, one of whom lost a sibling to suicide from repeated sports concussions. She, herself is a multiple concussion disabled female athlete, once with a very promising career. She is a MGH Physician’s Assistant working through personal/global issues in real time, with humor, faith & grace, engaging everyone ‘all in’ to save the world. She, like many of us, has found a way to reach out to other survivors with her new series Quantum Leaping Ladies.

Prairie is a licensed mental health therapist who utilizes animal assisted interventions in all walks of her mental health practice. She has a master’s degree in professional counseling and a postgraduate degree in military behavioral health counseling. She is certified as an equine assisted psychotherapist and has presented at national conferences on her techniques for providing equine therapy for military members and their families, with special emphasis on transitioning from the military back to civilian life. She consults for several non-profits for veteran and first responder trauma work to include the Lone Survivor Foundation and Horses that Heal. Prairie is a passionate supporter of emotional support animals as a means of finding hope and healing. She is the Clinical Director of Therapetic and consults for CertaPet, one of the largest emotional support animal companies in the nation. Prairie was recently featured on Military Makeover and in The Guardian documentary Creature Comforts for her work as the founder and developer of Emotional Support Animal Assisted Therapy (ESAAT) to further enhance the effectiveness of emotional support animals, and has developed techniques to decrease anxiety and panic attacks, depressive symptoms, and sleep difficulty.

Valentine’s Day is around the corner .. A commercial holiday retail wouldn’t let you miss, right? For some it’s a day to celebrate that special someone in their life. For others, it shines a spotlight on the lack of a loving partner. I would contend that “Love” should be celebrated every day, not just on Feb 14th. Whether you are part of a “couple” of not .. You can still have a Happy Valentine’s Day! Kim and Caren will be discussing the changes in love, sex, relationships, and our sense of self after suffering a brain injury. The dangers that can enter the new aspects of the relationship, and the simple joys we can be empwered to create on our own, or with someone.

Tom Tinlin is an Associate Principal at Howard Stein Hudson, a Boston based transportation consulting firm. Tom previously had an almost 30 year public sector career serving at the highest levels of the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Tom serves as a Director of the City of Boston Credit Union, Zoo New England, and the Children’s Trust. On April 30, 2017 Tom suffered a ruptured Brain Aneurysm. It was during his recovery that he learned about the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, and credits the foundation with providing valuable information and support to him and his family. Tom is also one of the 15% of patients who have more than one aneurysm. He has a second unruptured aneurysm that is closely monitored. Since obtaining this knowledge Tom and his family have dedicated themselves to doing what they can to help raise money and awareness for the cause as an active volunteer and fundraiser for the foundation. Recently Tom has been named the Brain Aneurysm Foundation’s (BAF) Chairman of the Board. Tinlin will help to support BAF’s mission and continue its work as the globally recognized leader in brain aneurysm awareness, education, support, advocacy and research funding.

Survivor on Board! BAF Hears Our Call

It has been my experience that healing and recovery are all but impossible in a vacuum. Faith, hope and spirituality are the rocks we need to cling to, in order to keep our head above water to keep from drowning. This foundation is found by different people in different ways, but the key is in establishing a belief system that offers us solid ground. My guest tonight Pastor Bill, is an Apostle of God with a prophetic voice who works to release a message of hope in our world. With deep spiritual revelation and insight from God’s word, he takes the toughest of passages of scripture and explains them in a practical way. Pastor Bill is the senior Pastor of Destinyland Christian Center, an author, radio host, husband and father of 3 teenage boys. His heart and passion is for others to become successful as they apply the principles of Christ in their lives.

My guest tonight is Debbie M. Wilson PhD, Cannabis Consultant and Re-Educator Noah’s Ark Consulting Nonprofit. After a decade as a felony probation and parole officer with the Florida Department of Corrections I was backed over by a pickup truck while at lunch with my family. I sustained a (TBI) Traumatic Brain Injury and a broken neck. I sought treatment for my seven types of epilepsy for over two decades and tried and failed on 19 different epilepsy medications. I was turned down for seizure surgery and the Vagal Nerve Stimulator. I was treated at neurology clinics across the nation and after two decades my doctors had no more answers and were giving me no hope. I took matters into my own hands and discovered medical cannabis. My son’s family and I relocated from Illinois to Oregon to get the access and guidance I needed to treat my neurology issues with this life saving treatment. I have written brain injury and epilepsy poems since 1996. I enjoy nothing more than traveling throughout the nation guiding and educating fellow patients, families and professionals.

Dr. Jake VanLandingham is the Founder and President of Prevacus. As a Florida State University undergraduate, Dr. VanLandingham participated in directed studies in neurosciences under noted FSU biology professor Marc Freeman. He was a month away from starting a degree program in physical therapy at Florida A&M University when his world abruptly changed, and neurology and physical therapy took on a far more personal meaning, After nearly losing his life to his own TBI, his recovery was strenuous, leaving him with short-term amnesia for a year following the injury. He was fortunate to have recovered from his brain injury and shows no visible signs of lingering effects. Many, primarily young people, injured in motor vehicle accidents do not survive or face a lifetime of disability. He is the perfect person to be working in this line of study because he can, better than most, identify with what they are going through.