Kim’s Radio Shows

Marcy Mudd’s family was going along great, until daughter Madeline was struck by tragedy. Many of the survivors we speak with, were adults when they faced the reality of life and death situations. Tonight we’ll here from a mother and daughter who faced down the monster of an aneurysm, how they handled it, and why circumstances led them to become very vocal advocates through JoeNiekroFoundation.org

Cynthia Stein LPT MEd Is a licensed physical therapist in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She specializes in treating concussion patients who do not get better with standard vestibular care. She owned Squirrel Hill Physical therapy for many years where she specialized in alternative treatment techniques such as craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, lymphatic drainage therapy and nasal release technique for treating the structural problems caused by concussion. Since Cynthia’s retirement from herpractice at the end of Dec, she am devoting her time to teaching nasal release technique and lymphatic drainage therapy for concussion. These classes are attended by physical therapists, chiropractors, naturopaths and physicians. Cynthia’s goal is to disseminate this highly effective work and have it researched so that it can be evidence based. See: conquerconcussion.com and her teaching website is nasalreleasetechnique.com

No it’s not an April Fool that the past two night’s shows haven’t been live. TONIGHT IS, with Kim Justus and a Spring Thang! Call in and help with the discussion, a few laughs … Or next time it’ll be another tape 🙂

Unfortunately Joey Giggles has a bad case of seasonal allergies and lost his voice. Ms Kimmy the Vulcan is MIA tonight, but they’ll be back next week when the Claritin kicks in!

Tonight is the night for you to shine. CALL IN & let’s make it a party!! One thing we’ll discuss is a study that poses the question, Could Excessive Time on Social Media Be Linked to Depression? I tell you what the study determined, and you can weigh in on that, or anything else on your mind. Good talk, good tunes.

Michael was a Special Educator in New York City for 26 years helping pioneer the use of digital video and computers by engaging hundreds of language-impaired students in tech activities promoting metacognition, communication and volition.

After retirement he worked to promote the use of technology with special education and to promote neurodiverse creativity n the Arts. He has presented at conferences in Orlando and Pensacola. He explains his work on Tech4Autism.com and his YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL95EF449E1AF238C8

The goal of his current project, Neurodiverse City is to improve social outcomes for the disabled by helping school age children to develop empathy for the people behind the label.

Find more information on Michael and his work on Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/mleventhal

You can also contact him through email Leventhal.Michael@gmail.com

In recognition of Brain Injury Awareness Month, we’ll be featuring several survivor’s who have become published authors about their journeys. We all have a story. If you doubt your ability to voice it by becoming an author, you may reconsider. For others looking for survivor stories and how they’ve learned to cope-You’ll have a wide variety to choose from here. Great show you can listen to an author or two at a time in archive if you missed live!

Deborah Schlag: AwakeningsCenterNC.com

Dr. Cheryle Sullivan: tbijourney.com

Michael Ciafone: meandmichael.org

Terry Smith: TerrySmithBooks.com

Tim Bransfield: alifeinterrupted.net

Amy Van Patten Ofenbeck: Amazon

Jeff Sebell: tbisurvivor.com (unable to come due to illness)

Kim Justus: inaflash.org

Gary Sinclair is a Cyberphysiologist and winner of Outstanding Transpersonal Contribution, in the field of Bridging Body, Mind & Spirit. In his personal life, he has overcome 50% lung capacity at birth to full, 14 years of MS with 80% mobility loss to healed, and recently 14 strokes with paralysis to no signs of a stroke in each case within 30 minutes. This is one interview YOU MUST HEAR and you know why! His latest book that cracks the code for healing titled ‘Healing Memories in Seconds.’ will be featured on PBS TV. Gary has personally taught over 3,000 people how to neutralize their worst memory every at PTSD level in 20 seconds with his latest work. Yup, WE ARE IN AWE of this new therapy work and you will be also.

See More at his Website: http://www.garysinclair.com

Dr Maria Romanas is back in the house! As a Dr of Pathology, and a Brain Injury Survivor .. Dr Maria blends scientific based knowledge, with the human challenges of being a survivor. The past year has been a whirlwind of change for her, and for people who function best with routine, transition can really rock our boat!

Maria’s professional and personal life were limited by a severe TBI suffered during a roll-over car accident in 1984. She doesn’t have an outwardly obvious disability, but cognitive impairments were compromising her quality of life.

In spring 2013, Dr Maria went through an 8-week program of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation (HCR) that trained her to become her own self-therapist. She learned exactly what was wrong with her brain and how to deliberately use her conscious mind to prevent her impairments from causing disabled functioning. She has be gracious enough to share those tools with us in the past. Now once again life on life’s terms, has her revisiting all tools she accumulated to maintain a stable life.

Kimberly Archie lead the safety crusade in youth sports and the push for cheer to be classified as a sport with science based research that set off a media blitz of injury stories in 2008 from People magazine to the Washington Post. Her tireless efforts and “never take no for an answer” resolve resulted in a Government Accountability Office investigation called by Congressional leaders into the youth sport safety crisis in America. She is an official research partner with the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina, was a safety official for the National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association, has testified numerous times at all levels of government on safety issues, organized numerous national safety events, pushed for stronger sport safety legislation on the national and state level, is a highly sought public speaker and independent source of sport safety information for news media, local government and sport parents. Her personal motivation is driven by the death of her son to CTE, and her daughters injury in Cheer.

Catherine Brubaker is a two-time brain injury survivor. She re-learned how to walk and talk twice and in 2014 she rode her recumbent cycle 5390 miles across the United States to take back her life. As she began telling her story, others began telling her theirs and she realized she was not alone. It was during that journey she realized that people did not see her disability and were unaware of the challenges brain injury survivors and their families face. She found her voice on her journey and has become an advocate for brain injury awareness. She shares her inspirational story of hope around the country speaker to help empower individuals with a powerful message of hope.Catherine founded hopefortrauma.org, an organization committed to advocating for a national conversation about brain injury and providing recumbent cycles and other adaptive equipment directly into the hands of brain injury survivors to that they may reclaim their freedom too.

A documentary will be released in early 2016 to share her story of hope, her journey through recovery and transformation from experiencing extreme trauma to creating Hope For Trauma.

Our Regular host Kevin is feeling under the weather tonight. Last minute fill in, so it’s YOUR night. Call in and share what’s on your mind and heart .. Or listen to some great Indie Music, and me pontificate!! Come on .. Keep me company as we kick off the weekend! 🙂