Moving Forward

Our guest tonight will be Sam Seitles.  Sam is a retired professional wrestler, who was introduced into the world of brain injury during his career. His experience helped him realize it was time to make a change. He shifted his focus from Pro Wrestling to educating classrooms filled with young students,  Quickly, he became a favorite among his students with captivating and charismatic storytelling.  Today Sam owns his own school, hosts an annual summer camp, is a professional speaker and host of a podcast called The Nostalgia Cafe.   Sam's is an inspirational story of how we can turn our adversity into victory, and a surprise visit from NASM Antonio Vaughn (TBOLT) AWF Wrestling! Welcome to Brain Injury Radio Network & our program, Moving Forward (on the 3rd Sunday of each month). I'm your host Kellye “KJ” Jones, Brain Injury Survivor & now, Life Coach.  My Co-Host Dr. Valentina, a Clinical psychologist, is here to discuss the emotional aspects that coincide beyond our physical injuries! Moving Forward will host candid discussions with persons who have sustained brain injury, and certified clinicians who have assisted these survivors. Their insight on discovery, the line between pain tolerance, pain threshold and pathways to success - will provide hope and more options on how to build Momentum for a sustainable recovery!   For more on Kellye see: forwardlifecoach.com   For Dr. Valentina see: drvalentinapsyd.com

Excited to Introduce to you to the Hosts of a new show in our line up called Moving Forward - 3rd Sun of each month! Kellye (KJ) Jones Was an active mom who loved to ride roller coasters, attend track meets, home school and teach bible study, KJ knew better than to let a little fatigue wear her down.  One night things changed. her headaches increased and her vision decreased.  After six weeks of doctor’s visits and testing, she was admitted to the Hospital for a coil and stent cerebral aneurysm surgery procedure.  Today, she is a Certified Life Coach and grant writer who believes “A day without laughter is a day wasted." Charlie Chaplin.  See: forwardlifecoach.com  Dr. Valentina is a licensed Clinical Psychologist from Chicago who is trained as a generalist psychologist to perform therapy and neuropsychological testing to individuals in English and Spanish. Dr. Valentina's interests include social/cultural and environmental injustices, the integration of spirituality in therapy, trauma work, and neuropsychological disorders such as ADHD, learning disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Brain Injury. See: drvalentinapsyd This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life's terms. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery. This is a "we" recovery program, because it is in the "we," that we find the new "me." We focus on the four A's of Recovery: Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Adaptation. This is a place for survivor's striving to become thrivers, which takes a good bit of Warrior! Hosted by Kim Justus, author of In a Flash: Miracles Here and Beyond and Hootie’s Hollow and the Magic Tree found at inaflash.org & "Like" me at facebook.com/inaflash.org too!