Kim’s Radio Shows

September 11, 2001 signaled a day of everlasting change for most of America. When we had our brain injuries, that process of ongoing grief and change, happened for us too. In both cases, many suffer not only from their injuries, but PTSD as well. Please call in tonight on this Eve of 9-11, when many of us revisit our grief from the country’s tragedy, to those of our own. Collective mourning lends itself to support, and frees us from the isolation, we so often seek. It was 14 years ago that 9-11 happened. For me, 19 years since my brain injury. Too often we are told by others, or believe ourselves, that we should be done feeling the sting of our mourning this far down the road. Reality shows us, that recovery is process, with many triggers on the road, reminding us of the day(s) that changed us forever.

Larry Schutz, PhD, ABPP is a neuropsychologist with more than 30 years of experience in brain injury rehabilitation. He trained with the founders of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation and has since refined the methodology to develop an advanced 8-week program Self-Therapy for Adaptive Recovery (STAR). He is the author of the books Head Injury Recovery in Real Life and Rehabilitation of the Shaken Soldier Syndrome.

Dr Schutz founded GiveBack, a non-profit organization that provides education and support so that survivors can learn how to become recoverers. He has written 2 free manuals that can be accessed via the GiveBack websites at givebackorlando.com and givebackla.com. The first is for survivors titled: “Self-Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: Teaching Yourself to Prevent Brain-Injured Moments.” The second is for family members/friends: “Helping your Family to Recover from Brain Injury.”

In 2004, Kimberly Chapman suffered two ruptured brain aneurysms and was astounded by the lack of public awareness and sparse research of such a widespread and often fatal condition. Recognizing the need for brain aneurysm advocacy and other types of vascular malformations of the brain, she personally established several international support networks to provide information, resources and motivation for survivors and family members. Kim has created a patient advocacy program inside The Joe Niekro Foundation which offers patients and caregivers educational information along with a huge amount of resources to find help.This mission with the Joe Niekro Patient Advocacy Program is to help survivors realize that recovery is possible and will help patients learn what to expect during the healing process and new coping strategies.

Tonight you bring the show to me! Share what’s on your brain, kick back and listen to some great inspirational Indy Music. I’ll be having a special drive thru, with was a wonderful former guest on my regular Wed Nite RecoveryNow show…Jeff Sebell, whose book is just HOT off the press.Join us as he shares a preview, and see more at www.lapublishing.com/sebell-survivor-support. Host Kim Justus, who you can “Like” at www.facebook.com/inaflash.org 🙂

Want a place to hang & listen to some good tunes…Maybe chat a little as we roll into Sunday? Another Sat Nite and I Ain’t got Nobody… Sing Along! See you there.

Medical science had determined, through doing transplants, that the memory passes at the cellular level, and that every cell in your body knows everything that has ever happened to you in your life. My guest is Mike Carey, who has been active in Alternative Healing for many years. His special “gift” of being able to read bodies, has offered recovery for people all over the world, with many different malady’s. He found out that you can tap into that memory by asking the body questions that can be answered “yes” or “no”, and the body will respond electrically which can then be understood through muscle testing.

Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Life in Heavy Metal. His non-fiction book, Candyfreak, was a New York Times Bestseller. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his most recent collection, God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for Fiction. Almond writes commentary and journalism regularly for The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. Lately he’s been causing quite a stir in the world of the NFL. A former sports reporter and play-by-play man, Almond lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. See his site at www.againstfootball.org

Regular Recovery Now contributor Dr Maria Romanas is back to discuss a familiar issue in our community!

“Most brain deficits are not constant skill deficiencies. They only make trouble at certain times and in certain places—this is why we call them “Brain Injured Moments” or BIMs. Learn where, when, and how you make them so you can stop making them. To teach yourself these lessons, you should fill out a Self-Therapy Log each time you notice a BIM—it directs your self-therapy to focus on the tasks and situations that require you to do something in a new and different way.” – Larry Schutz, PhD

Join me tonight with Rhonda Smith. Rhonda has been providing numerology readings and counseling for over 40 years both on and off line, and has been, since 2002, and continues to be a columnist for The Sedona Journal of Emergence. She also is a contributing author to the Shift anthologies: The Sacred Shift, Co-Creating Your Future…in a New Renaissance and Creating Your Own Shift.

In order to better assist individuals in their awakening, Rhonda has studied extensively. She has a BS in History and a minor in Economics from Towson University, a JD from the Univ.of MD Law School, PhD (Meta) American College of Metaphysical Theology, PhD (Meta) Universal Life Church, PhD (Rel Science) Univ Life Church, PhD (Motivation) Univ Life Church. In addition, she is a Reiki Sensei Master Teacher, a Chios Master Teacher and has been trained in Jin Shin Jyutsu and Healing Touch. This understanding of our energy bodies assists in understanding the signs in your physical body.

She also served as a Squadron Commander and on the Inspector General’s staff achieving the rank of Captain in the USAF-CAP.

In 1997, Rhonda opened The Awakening Center www.theawakeningcenter.org, an online spiritual community that provides weekly events to assist people who seek a deeper and more fulfilling spiritual experience. In 2007, Rhonda embarked on bringing The Awakening Center to a broader audience through her weekly radio talk show AWAKE! Now What? which airs 6 p.m. Eastern time each Sunday evening on Blog Talk Radio. You can contact her at Rhonda@theawakeningcenter.com

My guests tonight will be Dr. Bart Billings, Retired as US Army Medical Service Corp Officer serving 34 years in US Army, his highest ranking as Colonel. He was Director/Founder International Civilian & Military Combat Stress Conference & Recipient of Human Rights Award for 2014 from CCHR International. See his site at bbillings@omnisonic.com.

Dr. Chrisanne Gordon, who has experienced TBI revocery both as a physician and patient. She released a documentary called Operation Resurrection, and went on to found www.resurrectinglives.org to help our Veteran Heroes.