This episode features Joe’s girlfriend and producer of the show, Felice talking about the challenges of being the caregiver/support system to a brain injury survivor as well as how to show compassion from both the brain injured and caregiver’s perspective. It’s all about love, understanding, patience and understanding and how to find it in the midst of recovering from a brain injury. Who’s your NeuroRecovery Sidekick? Tag them on our socials!
Our host Joe is interviewing our first occupational therapist on the show, Jane Connely of Heal The Brain With Jane! They talk stroke and brain injury recovery, occupational therapy and more as Jane gives us some valuable insight into the key role occupational therapy plays in brain injury recovery. Tag your favorite OT on our socials!
Co-hosts Joe and Lauren continue the Back To School series with an episode about their experiences in high school pre-brain injury and their experiences learning new things post-brain injury. They also discuss what fictional characters they related to in high school. What are some tools you use to learn new things post-brain injury? Share with us on our socials.
Continuing our Back To School series, in this episode our host Joe is interviewing Andrea Valero Edoria (or Dre as Joe calls her). Dre suffered an aneurysm and stroke at 3.5 years old and now as an adult, she talks with Joe about how she coped as a child with the disabilities she gained from her stroke as well as navigating school and interpersonal relationships as a child brain injury survivor. Plus how Dre turned her disabilities into her superpower by helping other adolescent brain injury survivors through her public speaking and nonprofit work. Dre is a real-life superhero! If you’re an adolescent brain injury survivor, what are some challenges you’ve faced and how do you overcome them? Please share with us on our socials!
This is our very first Teen TBI Talk episode as part of our Back To School Series! Co-hosts Joe and Lauren talk with teen TBI survivor Derrius and his mom Kayla about his experience suffering multiple concussions as a child, how they affected him both physically and mentally and what recovery has been like as an adolescent. Lauren being a TBI survivor as well relates to him about all of the emotional and physical affects of a concussion. Plus they discuss prevention and awareness. If you are a teen/child TBI survivor or know someone who has gone through this, please share your story with us and connect with Derrius. Leave us a comment on our socials to connect!