Cognitive Recovery: Apps for both Hemispheres

In this blog post, I am providing a variety of cognitive exercises in the form of phone applications for you to select from depending on your personal rehabilitation needs and interests. I have downloaded and played all the apps I am recommending and personally found them to be both entertaining and cognitively engaging. Hopefully within this list you will find something appealing, enjoyable, and relatively challenging that you can play anywhere, anytime, to enhance your cognitive recovery.

Guest UserMay 15, 2022Brain Injury recovery, Cognitive Recovery, Apps for Recovery

Growth Mindset in Recovery

In her TEDX lecture, she explains, “Instead of luxuriating in the power of ‘ yet’ they were gripped in the tyranny of now.” Children missed the opportunity to grow intellectually and lost out on the availability of their brain’s neuroplasticity (the ability of neural pathways to heal, rewire, and develop).

Libby DesmondApril 23, 2022Brain Injury recovery, brain injury, Growth Mindset, Radical Acceptance

Why People Quit Therapy: A Therapists’ Journey

Why people quit therapy, a therapists’ journey.

When they begin to “have to come” to therapy or you learn that their partner is the main reason for continuing on: This is the one an only time that motivation cannot be built. If all of the effort and desire to change is external, then there is nothing to build on.

Jane ConnelyJanuary 4, 2021Post TBI fatigue, Brain Injury recovery, motivation, Post Stroke, brain injuryComment

10 Things Brain Injury Survivors Can Teach The World About Transformation

We all have areas we need to change, but if I had a choice I don’t want to change I want to transform. Change implies something that happens like turning on a switch and making a room light up or fill with darkness. Change isn’t always good. Transformation; however, is life altering, deliberate, and almost always better than what you thought was good enough.

The Mythology Of Limiting Beliefs: How To Stop Buying In To B.S.

Limiting beliefs are very difficult, because they tend to be well reasoned arguments against growth and they often use truth in a deceitful way to argue a point. For example, when you have had a brain injury it IS a difficult situation. In the first several months to a year, persons who experience that first surge of healing tend to have a growth mindset that squashes limiting beliefs. They use a lot of powerful words like “yet” and verbs with “ing” such as “trying” “working” “moving” “reaching”. I can always tell when patients are about to take up residence on the limiting beliefs plateau, because their language changes. I hear less action verbs and more verbs of being. Everything turns to grey and my least favorite phrase takes over “it IS what it IS.”

FEAR vs. FUN: Who will you let WIN

You don’t need to face the end of your life to begin dreaming. Most of you have already experienced what the end may look like. You have fought your way back from almost dying and you deserve to live and to live well. Life cannot be constant goal setting and schlepping from one therapy to the next. You need to have some form of play, rest, and relaxation to keep going and to remember what life is all about.