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Adjusting to change when you are immersed in a PTSD moment can be a lot to traverse through.  Adjusting to last minute changes creates a vortex of emotions when you depend on that structured way of life to feel successful in your day, and it suddenly becomes unstructured.  

This episode discusses the whirlwind of various types of change and what it is like to have anxiety added to it.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hopetbi.com/2016/12/28/the-whirlwind-of-change-then-add-anxiety/

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Pain changes you.  Pain changes how you perceive the world.  Sometimes that change is for the better, sometimes it is for the worse.  One thing that is consistent though is that it effects each person in different ways.  

For some, pain is an intermittent, temporary experience that subsides and disappears.  Yet for others, it is a constant reminder of a changed life and a permanent fixture requiring high maintenance in their lives.

This episode is about Chronic Pain and how it resembles the stages of Grief.

This episode is also available as a Webpage: https://hopetbi.com/rehabilitation-journey-2/chronic-pain/

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Where did I put the keys?  Where did I sit my notebook?  What am I in this room for?  These are common questions for the average person.  What happens though after a brain injury?  

What happens after trauma interrupts our thinking process and changes the normal questions to a barage of overwhelming and unanswered questions, self-doubt, checks, and balances that make us feel we are no longer "normal"?  

Let's explore some of those thoughts together.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hopetbi.com/2016/08/18/dusty-roads/

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After a Trauma, we often know ourselves by looking at ourselves in our reflection, yet the experience has changed us inside.  Things in life may seem familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time.  

How do we reconcile the self we were before the trauma with who we are now?  

How can we begin to recognize the inner part again as someone that we also love and accept in all of its newfound complexity?

This post is also available as a Webpage: https://hopetbi.com/about-me/who-is-this-stranger-as-me/

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Hello and welcome to the Podcast for HOPE TBI - where you, as our listening audience, are embraced as our ⁠HOPE'sters⁠.

You can find us at ⁠www.hopetbi.com⁠

This episode is about 7 years I survived - from January 4, 2014 - January 4, 2021. "Year of the Seven"

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://hopetbi.com/2021/01/04/year-of-the-seven/

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Hello ⁠HOPE'sters⁠.  Welcome to the podcast for ⁠HOPE TBI⁠, where you as our listening audience are embraced as the HOPE'sters of the world.  You can find us at ⁠hopetbi.com⁠

What is a HOPE'ster?  

A HOPEster is anyone who is interested in helping one person succeed to be independent – even if the person they are currently helping is themselves (specifically related to Polytrauma and Traumatic Brain Injury – though can apply to anything other than these two things as well).

A HOPEster is someone willing to share information, offer support (whether that be emotional, mental, physical, or just by sharing awareness information), and encourages advocacy (self-advocacy, medical advocacy, advocacy awareness).

A HOPEster is someone that thinks outside the box, is passionate, idealistic, and believes in the inherent goodness of others and our collective responsibility to each other as human beings.

Come on in.  Join us.  Become a HOPE'ster.

This episode is about the history of ⁠HOPE TBI ⁠and an Introduction to this Podcast.

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