Kim’s Radio Shows

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.

Dr. Kabran Chapek has been a staff physician at Amen Clinics since 2013. He is an expert in the use of functional and integrative treatments and collaborates extensively with many of the Amen Clinics physicians. He has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of Alzheimer’s and dementia, traumatic brain injuries, PTSD, and anxiety disorders. He has additional training in the assessment and utilization of hormones to treat traumatic brain injuries in combination with SPECT imaging and the Amen Method. Dr. Chapek is the founding president of the Psychiatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians, an affiliate group of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. More information on Dr. Chapek is available at: amenclinics.com/staff/kabran-chapek-nd From the prestigious Amen Clinics – known worldwide for brain health expertise –and based on over 115,000 brain scans, an action plan for repairing the brain following a TBI. CONCUSSION RESCUE- A Comprehensive Program to Heal Traumatic Brain Injury By Dr. Kabran Chapek – Foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen. Concussion Rescue goes on sale January 28, 2020.

Kim and Co-Host Caren Robinson will discuss Secondary PTSD created by the healthcare industry/toxic providers. I can’t tell you how many listeners, including myself, have been frustrated by the lack of knowledge or consistency found about brain injury in the “traditional medical model.” Our injuries alone can leave us with PTSD, but when that’s compounded by those who are tasked with helping us .. Well, that’s just wrong .. How to recognize this dynamic, and how to be our own best advocate will be discussed. We will also talk about PTSD and TBI as co-morbidities and how to tell them apart. Co-morbity refers to two conditions existing in the same person. Co-morbidity can imply interactions between the illnesses that can worsen the course of both.

Kim and Simon will review notable events of 2019, and hopes for the new decade 2020. Happy New Year! Today is the First Blank Page of a 365 page book .. Write a good one! Embrace your power to choose. The past is for learning from our mistakes & victories, the present is for embracing new things, and the future is for charting our course. To be absent from drama, is to be present with peace

We’ll wind down the long 48 hour holiday, and concentrated seasonal sensory overload, by kicking back, sharing some tunes, and trading some chat.How did your holiday season go? Roast those final chestnuts, take in the fire and twinkling lights…And join me. 🙂 This show, Recovery Now is a gathering placefor anyone seeking recoveryfrom the challenges of life on life’s terms. I introduce topics, and survivor’s share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery. More will be revealed! Tune in, stop in and call in. This is a “we” recovery program, because it is in the “we,” that we find the new “me.” We focus on the four A’s of Recovery…Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Adaptation. This is a place for survivor’s striving to become thrivers. 🙂 Some nights we will have a featured guest, and others we will introduce a topic of recovery, encouraging callers to join us in the discussion. The back half of the show is open mic and some fabulous Indy music, sure to inspire.

There are a LOT of Holiday geared programs around this time of year. One that I’ve watched every year of my life (REALLY long time), is Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. I began to consider what messages that show was sending. Hmmm .. I guess I could relate to the underpinnings of a few of those differences from a young age. Worse since my brain injury when I couldn’t recognize myself, or communicate “the new me”. One message is that people who are “different” are less desirable. They are judged, manipulated and controlled. They are lonely and isolated. Thus, holding a perception of not fitting in with the status quo. Even easier to feel like that issue is rubbed in this time of year. Before my brain injury, I took those differences as being “unique” or “out of the box” compared to most folk, as a good thing. That was a special, freeing feeling. There was nothing to measure up to, because being ME was enough. There were no comparisons, because there is none. We are each unique, not to be compelled to conform to someone else’s notion of “normal”. Was that a dream? Some place “different” took on a new meaning, that equates with something bad, ignored or frowned upon. Reasons for being banished from people or groups, realizing fears and insecurities once foreign to me. A challenge of self confidence. We all have our abominable snow men.

Countdown to Christmas and the Holiday Cheer, or Fear. Joy or Sadness. Victories and Challenges. Manybe a mix of all these? Whatever your answer .. My best wishes and gratitude to you all for the peace you seek this holiday season. Tonight will be open Mic, holiday tunes, and maybe a visit from Brain Santa 🙂