Kim’s Radio Shows

Tonight we’ll talk about the therapeutic effect that music has, listen to some great Indy Artists, and hear your experience with music as a cathartic tool of recovery. Call in and discuss your thoughts about music, what music stirs inside your soul, and have some fun. After all, it’s Saturday Night! 🙂 If you’re around, “Let’s Party”! Come and hang out, call in, or tune in and enjoy! Open mic discussion about your brain injury journey, along with very few pearls of wisdom from your host. 🙂 Tonight’s host is Kim Justus, regular Wednesday night host… Ready to jam into the weekend. Bring your dancing shoes. Oh yea!

My guest tonight on Recovery Now, is Barbara J. Webster, author of Lost and Found, A Survivor’s Guide for Reconstructing Life After a Brain Injury, available through Lash Publishing.

In 1991, Barbara suffered a TBI when her car skidded off a slippery road and was totaled. Like so many others, she was not diagnosed properly and suffered the ills of too many  survivors. We will travel through her journey as a brain thriver, as well as her involvement in facilitating the Brain Injury Survivor Support group in Framington since 1995. She also works part time for the Brain Injury Support Association of Massachusetts assisting other support groups, and will discuss the importance of support of like minded people in recovery.

I will be discussing New Year, New Beginnings. Not big on resolutions…More like letting go of old nonproductive thinking, and embracing a new positive focus for change in 2014. Bite size pieces, obtainable to all in recovery.

Will be introducing a new host beginning January 11th & then the 2nd Saturday of each month, Michele Jones. Her show will be called Brain Changers. Her show is for Brain Aneurysm/AVM Survivors, their families, caregivers, and for people who just want to know. This show is to inspire and encourage others to grow, learn, and be apart of living with a brain injury. Stop by the beginning of the show to meet her!

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 seaso go? Roast those final chestnuts, take in the fire and twinkling lights…And join me. 🙂

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.