Kevin, Maggie & Luke are up to their neck with the “moving blues.” Family on the way and bull baskets, I offered to step in tonight.
With Christmas around the corner, if you feel like getting into the spirit with old friends and new…Tune in to regular Wednesday host Kim Justus this evening. We’ll chat and rock around the holiday clock, in time for her to be back again on Christmas night. 🙂
Call in with your holiday stories of joy and sorrow, good memories or bad. Or, just kick back and listen to some great holiday music. TGIF, WTF?! We’ll try to be FUNctional tonight too.
As an accomplished athlete, author Catherine (Catz) LeBlanc knew the risks of sports injuries. As a physician’s assistant, she knew how the brain and body work. But the concussion she sustained in a team handball game was compounded by a rear end high speed auto-truck collision 2 months later – and her life changed completely. Unable to find the hope, reassurance and inspiration she needed while struggling with her physical and cognitive challenges, she wrote Tell Me This. She captures the complex feelings and emotions that are shared by so many individuals with concussions and brain injuries, but she does this with clever graphics and short phrases or “snippets” that make reading this guide a real pleasure. You will pick it up again and again. Tell Me This: Encouragement and Hope after Brain Injury can be found at Lash Publishing www.lapublishing.com/concussion-recovery-sports-athlete/
CRS Radio Network: Kim Justus suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 1995, and then spent 11 days in a coma. It was during that time, that she experience her journey to the other side. She made a journal of what she remembered while recovering, but because she appeared back to normal, buried the journal for seventeen years. In 2012 she finally wrote a book about her experience. We were one of the first to interview her after her book was released. Amazing things have happened for her since then, including becoming a host on Brain Injury Radio. You can find more information about Kim on her website www.inaflash.org or her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/inaflash.org
This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from 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.
Fantastic Frank will back next week!! In the meantime, you get me one more night. 🙂 It’s been a rough couple weeks, so “mellow” hasn’t been a word I’d use to describe me at the moment. None the less, I’d like to try and get back there. The full basket syndrome I speak of, and the sensory overload have been flairing. That in turn fires up the chronic pain conditions I have, amplifies my memory loss and sends my emotions on the roller coaster from hell. Ahhh, the domino theory of brain injury. Combine a few residuals, and we’re having fun now eh?
Tonight I have a few stories to make us laugh, of course when they were happening the last couple of days…I was FAR from laughing. The back half of my show last night was “Suicide Hurts”. Some of you know I lost friend. Tonight I’m not going there, but just sharing what happens when something big (or an accumulation of small things) throws me off my stride. Yep, even I poop in my perfection pail sometimes. 🙂
Two part show tonight! The Science Of Happiness, host Lori Faitel will be joining me to tell us details about the changes to our Peer Support Line. I encourage the audience and our hosts to listen. Lori will be in the road, so we’ll keep her as long as we can and also hear more about her show and the new earlier platform. Open mics, new Indy’s and breaking out the first few holiday tunes. I talked to Alice Cooper. 🙂
Suicide Hurts was added to the back half of this show. You matter. Get help. People do care.
Even if your “stuffed”, full of thanks or something else 🙂 … Come on in and bring your leftovers. If your brain feels drain from the family refrain, or your heart feels lonely for the Rockwell lost, or never achieved…Share the evening with us. We’ll all wear elastic waisted pants, kick off our shoes, relax and share what’s on our hearts and minds.
If you dare, make a 7 item gratitude list and share it with us. Let’s see how we can focus not on how life effects us, but how we can affect life…In a positive and loving way. This can be a difficult time of the year. Routines are turned upside down, mental baskets get full and tilt, the sensory overload can effect our relationships with others, and with ourselves. We can choose to be the tornado in life, or the gentle breeze. Whichever wind we resemble, blows through the life of countless others and makes its impact known.
We have an opportunity to find grace, forgive, and plot a way to make Merry through the rest of this holiday season. Recovery is about WE not ME. Tonight is about US, and how we can be part of the change we’d like to see in the world. Each day is a chance for a new beginning, and THAT is something to be thankful for. Whether you are from the USA or around the world, gratitude knows no boundaries.
Host is regular Wednesday night host of “Recovery Now”, Kim Justus. Fantastic Frank should be back from his tour in a couple weeks. Wishing him much success. 🙂 Hopefully lots of the other hosts will roll through as they land back at the farm. Hear that hosts?!
Kimberly is a former Olympic hopeful in the sport of equestrian show jumping, and current award-winning speaker, author, and “Champion-Overcomer.” Her insightful observations and compelling “outside the box,” proven success strategies are perceptively demonstrated through a unique and engaging presentation featuring her amazing story; which has been featured on TV, film, magazines, and in Kimberly’s books. Her valuable insights can only come from someone who’s nearly lost their life–and scratched and clawed their way back to success. Kimberly’s amazing life journey has presented seemingly “impossible” challenges. This former athlete has taken the word “impossible” out of her vocabulary and formulated proven success strategies that enabled her to become a Champion-Overcomer! See more at: www.speakerkimberlycarnevale.com
In 1998 her Olympic dream was cut short due to an accident that left her with brain injury. A series of other tragic events ensued in the following years, that further threatened her life.
Fantastic Frank is out on his excellent adventure to fame, while we “somewhere in middle America” are suddenly freezing our snowballs off! Actually, the white stuff is on the way, but everyone in town is on the rocks today, as the roads glaze over in ice, and the north winds howl.
Tonight the fire will be burning and hopefully the radio waves will be too. Unless of course the powerlines are effected, in which case one of our tropical hosts will have to grab the mic. 🙂
Music and chat, how bout that? I’ll have the tea kettle whistling, come on out and keep me company, as I attempt to fill the fantastic shoes…Though I’d rather try the cape. 🙂
Regular Wednesday host Kim Justus is filling in for Fantastic Frank. Call in and see how many co-hosts we can get tonight! Share a fond seasonal memory or bring a good joke. Let’s have some fun. No school tomorrow for me. 🙂 🙂
Barbara and Dawn co-facilitate journaling groups for people with brain injury, based on Barbara’s book, After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story. They have witnessed how the writing and sharing short of journal entries has great power for fostering healing after brain injury has altered people’s lives.
Dawn Westfall, MS, CCC-SLP, received her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Eastern Illinois University. She works at HealthSouth Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital, where she has specialized in treating adults with brain injuries for the last 22 years. For 12 years she assisted with developing and managing a community rehabilitation program that assisted individuals to live independently.
Barbara Stahura, Certified Journal Facilitator, since 2007 guided people with brain injury, family caregivers, and others in harnessing the power of therapeutic journaling for healing and well-being. Co-author of the acclaimed After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, the first journaling book for people with brain injury. A member of the faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute and of the Lash & Associates Speakers Bureau on Brain Injury. http://www.barbarastahura.com
