Recovering & living with a brain injury comes with many challenges, learning to love ourselves again being one of them. Sharing my thoughts.

Brain fog after brain injury...What is brain fog? What triggers it and some tips to try to alleviate brain fog.

Do you think that the current health system caters for the complex issue that brain injury recovery is?

Do you ask for help? When not reciprocated, how does it make you feel? Why was your call unanswered? How do you process/interpret this?

What causes trauma, how does it manifest itself and how do you best learn to move on?

When the challenges linked to driving after encephalitis and acquired brain injury result in a loss of independence.

When a teen's brain and an injured brain are two peas in a pod.

I’m very familiar with grief. Since e and abi occurred, it feels as though I’ve been learning to grieve the old me...

I reflected on a lot of things following the back-to-back races. I’m addressing some of the reasons which lead me to retiring the bib.

What are the effects of a payback after overexerting your brain following encephalitis & brain injury? This blog recounts an event.

When a set back sucks all your energy, motivation and strength. How do you slowly find ways to build yourself back up?

Years after encephalitis and ABI, I am still expecting for a magical solution to be presented by my neurologist to reboot my brain.

Moments where you think “something is wrong” because your brain operates better than “normal” after brain injury.

This is a short narrative or Paula's story with Encephalitis, ABI and OCD.

Raising awareness is not an easy task regardless of the cause. But where do we sit in regards to raising awareness of mental health?

At one point or another all of us will be looking for some directions to move forward in our lives. Lessons learnt from e on finding my way.

Beyond the physical impacts of encephalitis and abi sits a very important aspect...mental health.

Addressing the challenges no one told me about when I was sent back home. Because surviving e is one thing and living post e another.

When your brain goes in near complete shut down mode and the ugly aftermath it leaves behind...time to rebuild my strength once again!

Managing emotions can be a challenge. This blog is a narrative describing a moment when I let that iron armour down after brain injury.