Hi friends & visitors,
Well, today was exciting! I had a fellow TBI (traumatic brain injury) survivor reach out with all kinds of positive feedback about my engagement within our Facebook group. It doesn’t mean that life is suddenly perfect, but it’s a step down a good path. One that I want to be on.
I’m very interested in how to heal (emotionally and neurologically) from this BI. I’m trying to stop labeling it as “traumatic” to lessen its strength. I believe that any individual, regardless of (dis)ability has more power and strength than society has allowed us to believe. I am certain that living in an age of change is difficult on all of us, and "normal" people are walking around in a mindless state of unawareness, numbing themselves to the fear and uncertainty of what the future holds. I'm trying to see this BI as the chance at a new life, a gift to be so deeply in touch with who I am, I don't have to live by another person's ideas of what I am capable of because I’ve transcended beyond the limitations they expect from me.
I don't know who said that one day our current norm was worth idolizing. It certainly wasn't based on my abilities. But give me a chance to heal and learn about what is possible in my sphere of this world. That's what I want from this moment in my life - no, demand. And we all deserve that.
Stop labeling what is different as wrong, scary, or unwanted. That's horridly discriminatory. I refuse that toxicity, and if that means I'm the Weird One... fine.

When I’ve been asked how I’m healing from my BI, I respond honestly: I found that gratitude journalling every morning gave me the first step in establishing a routine to find out who I am now. Light therapy has really helped heal my pineal gland the past few months, and by meditating (using smells and touch to activate my nervous system) I'm much more grounded in being here, now. Rather than running to the "what if's" that don't matter.