Kim’s Radio Shows

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 🙂

Join Kim Justus and Co-Host Caren Robinson to discuss the naughty and nice of brain injury during the holidays .. Some holiday tunes, and some calls from you!! Tips on how to survive the holiday season, and the origins of Christmas.

In 2004, Janet Sutherland-Madden suffered from a ruptured brain aneurysm that left her blind and paralyzed. She has now fully recovered and has turned her health trauma into a career by lobbying and fundraising for the Brain Aneurysm Foundation. Sutherland is a former Chicago radio reporter where she was heard covering many landmark stories. Janet has worked in marketing in cable television and has syndicated national radio shows and news networks including CNN, CBS and Fox.

Her new book Nose Over Toes, tells the story her recovery and includes research from The Brain Aneurysm Foundation. One in 50 people currently have a brain aneurysm and do not know it. Sutherland miraculously recovered and felt her story would save lives and provide hope to survivors. For More See: noseovertoes.com

Join Kim and Co-Host Simon Lewis as they discuss gratitude. Has the Attitude of Gratitude had a societal shift toward an attitude of entitlement? As we gather to give Thanks at this time, we focus only on the blessings, rather than the shortcomings of our individual life circumstances.

John Krotec is an entrepreneur, writer, and army veteran. After college John went to work in corporate America and realized that despite doing well in the job, he wanted something more. He joined the army later in life with the purpose of being able to make money to go to law school. The army taught him discipline and how to value himself. After serving for three years he left the army and returned to civilian life. It was then that he got reacquainted with his future wife, helping her raise a family. Together they also successfully ran a business for 23 years leading international guided tours.

In 2012 John hit rock bottom and survived a traumatic brain injury. This unleashed his demons and forced him to cope with the trauma he experiences at a young-age. Over this time, he almost lost his marriage and family. With months of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Hemp-Based Pharmaceutical treatment, he developed his own healing system by using creative pursuits for coping with trauma and saving his marriage in the process. In 2016 he founded Greenzone Hero, Tan online community that honors freedom to improve business. See: greenzonehero.com

Kim and Co-Host Caren Robinson Discuss Resources and Support for the Brain Injury Community – Where do we find these things. The merit of doing so, as well as the challenges can be daunting.

Andrew Marr is a Special Forces Green Beret, Co-Founder and CEO of Warrior Angels Foundation, and author of TALES FROM THE BLAST FACTORY: A Brain Injured Special Forces Green Beret’s Journey Back From The Brink. Andrew is married to Becky, the love of his life, together they have five children.

Missions/objectives of high importance must be pursued no matter the probability of success, and without fear of failure. Our mission is of high importance. We will succeed

Marr wasn’t impressed with the current state of Veterans’ Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD patient care. So… instead of waiting for someone else to change it, he decided to act! He sought out to find an alternative way to provide world class care to Veterans affected by TBI and PTSD. The Warrior Angels Foundation along with Dr. Mark L. Gordon have done it! See: www.waftbi.org