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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

The regularly scheduled Fantastic Frank show will not be on tonight, due to Frank’s travels to stardom!

Instead, regular Wednesday host Kim Justus will fill in with…Something. 🙂 Tune in and see!

Help her pave the road. Music, open mic, a surprise guest, mindless chatter, or profound revelations? You just never know with her sometimes, especially on short notice. Come on down!!

Craig Phillips is a traumatic brain injury survivor and a master’s level certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC). His TBI occurred in 1967 when I was ten years old. He sustained an open skull fracture, then remained in a coma for three weeks with right frontal lobe damage and a severe brain bruise which involved the brain stem.

Craig created Second Chance to Live to share what he discovered through his process of living with a traumatic brain injury and an invisible disability for the past 46 years. He has since written 1140 articles and created 175 video presentations that have been uploaded to YouTube for people who learn better through watching and listening. He believes in the power of identification as a tool of recovery.

For more information go to: www.secondchancetolive.org

Dr. Lise’ DeLong, has undergraduate degrees in Special Education, Deaf Education and Music Therapy and holds a PhD in Neuropsychology with a sub-specialty in Neurocognitive Processing. She is a certified EMG Biofeedback Technician, a certified EEG Neurofeedback Technician, and a certified Practitioner of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CPCRT). Dr. DeLong was the founder of a private Not-For-Profit Fine Arts Elementary/Middle School working with brain injuries using Music, Dance, Drama, Language, and the Visual Arts. She has developed a process called NeuroCognitive therapy and has implemented this for the past 18 years in her private practice in Indiana and in California.

Keith Anthony needed a night off. I missed his message if one was left, so arriving home an hour late, I logged in to see “waiting for host.”

I took the liberty of logging in as pinch hitting host and am hoping nothing serious came up for him. Hopefully he just slept through the alarm.

Just played some great Indy Music & a few loose musings. Hopefully Keith Anthony will be back next week.

Peggy Reisher, MSW, became the executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska (BIA-NE) in July 2013. Prior to that, she worked for the BIA-NE for six years as director of Programs and Services and as the director of the Nebraska Veterans Brain Injury Task Force program. www.biane.org

Reisher’s leadership has been the driving force in establishing the Nebraska Veterans Brain Injury Task Force, a group of representatives from civilian, military and key government agencies working together to identify gaps in services for military members and veterans returning from war with brain injury and/or PTSD.

Reisher worked for 14 years on the TBI unit at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Neb. where she helped patients and families identify community resources upon discharge from the hospital.

Lindsey O’Connor is an author, a freelance journalist, and a speaker who has contributed to public radio’s Weekend America, WashingtonPost.com, The Rocky Mountain News, Christianity Today, Writer’s Digest, Guideposts, and others. She has reported internationally, is a former broadcaster, was a finalist for an Audie Award, and is a member of The Association of Independents in Radio and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She and her family live in Colorado.

Overcoming enormous physical, mental, and emotional odds, Vietnam verteran William A. Roper has walked the road of devastating traumatic brain and bodily injury all the way to physical thriving and spiritual awakening. Now he is sharing his method and the journey. A student of meditation and New Thought, William’s mission is to express his gratitude for his own healing by assisting veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, and ANYONE engaged in the process of overcoming adversity through igniting their will to achieve their goals.

To book or learn more about William, contact his agent Adrienne at www.tbivet.com.

Bill Keck is a dear friend who recently suffered a TBI. He’s had a lengthy road of recovery the past couple years, and then a car accident too. Bill has always been strong as a bull, and few have had a more colorful past and turn around.

Prior to his retirement, Bill, a US Navy Veteran who did two tours in Nam, developed an alcohol and drug treatment center, within Siena Francis House Homeless Shelter. He worked there for almost 20yrs, during which he wrote a book about recovery and miracles. Please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHjh6OZvwug

Bill and I have been out of touch for a few years, so I was shocked to hear about his brain injury. After being a host for so long, I wonder if he had prior blows to the head during his service, either to our country or at the shelter.

Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler, Ed.D. is a Neuropsychologist, Board Certified Health Psychologist, Board Certified Sports Psychologist, and Trauma Therapist with over 35 years experience. In 1990, Dr. Diane had a stroke while driving her car, resulting in a 60 mph head-on auto accident. She has since undergone brain surgery, and sustained two more concussions. From her experience and expertise, Dr. Diane wrote Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, the first comprehensive guide to brain trauma and its hidden effects. Due out November 5th, but now available for preorder, is her new book Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, which includes information on sports and blast injuries. Dr. Diane’s experiences have led her to devote her clinical practice, writings and personal appearances to helping organizations and individuals overcome life’s obstacles and achieve their goals. www.drdiane.com