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Improve your mental wellbeing, no drugs required

Guest blogger Patricia Sarmiento provides avenues to explore to improve your mental wellbeing. Have a read to add new tools to your toolbox.

Tips to Tackle Depression After Brain Injury

Veronique Theberge

May 23, 20233 min read

Tips to Tackle Depression After Brain Injury

Brain injury can result in mental health ups and downs. In this blog, I propose a few tips to help find your way out of depression.

Veronique Theberge

Apr 1, 20232 min read

Fitting In

How do you fit in following a brain injury? Life is so different, you can often feel lost making you wonder where you and how you fit in.

Veronique Theberge

Sep 30, 20224 min read

Nurturing Brain Health & Mental Health

Let's explore how we can better brain heath and mental health through nurturing aspects such as safety, learning and social connections.

Physical Health, Brain Health and Mental Health

Veronique Theberge

Sep 29, 20224 min read

Physical Health, Brain Health and Mental Health

Physical health is an aspect of brain health that is often covered, but I'd like to provide further examples of how they are linked.

Veronique Theberge

Sep 25, 20222 min read

Brain Health and Mental Health

In this blog we explore how brain health and mental health are closely intertwined. But what is brain health? Well let's find out more.

Practicing Gratitude during Brain Injury Recovery

Veronique Theberge

Sep 15, 20224 min read

Practicing Gratitude during Brain Injury Recovery

What is the negative bias, what are example of gratitude practices and how can practicing gratitude be helpful during brain injury recovery.

Veronique Theberge

Apr 18, 20227 min read

EMDR: Processing Trauma

This is a collaborative blog where Veronique and Dr. Jen share insight on EMDR from a patient & also health professional perspective.

Veronique Theberge

Jan 6, 20225 min read

Comparison, the Thief of Joy

When comparison between the old and new you after brain injury becomes the thief of joy!

Veronique Theberge

Aug 27, 20214 min read

Sound the Foghorn

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

Veronique Theberge

Jul 13, 20214 min read

Help anyone?

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?

Motivation, strength or dare I say absence of it!

Veronique Theberge

Apr 5, 20214 min read

Motivation, strength or dare I say absence of it!

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

Veronique Theberge

Feb 17, 20215 min read

Paula’s story with encephalitis and OCD

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

Beyond the Physical Impacts of Encephalitis and Acquired Brain Injury

Veronique Theberge

Jan 19, 20214 min read

Beyond the Physical Impacts of Encephalitis and Acquired Brain Injury

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

The Real Challenges of Surviving Encephalitis & Acquired Brain Injury

Veronique Theberge

Jan 9, 20215 min read

The Real Challenges of Surviving Encephalitis & Acquired Brain Injury

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.

Veronique Theberge

Sep 24, 20203 min read

The Many Faces of Depression

Depression...there is no one size fits all. Depression can wear many faces and we are all affected differently. Insight on PDD

Veronique Theberge

Mar 21, 20203 min read

Isolation

As the world moves into self-isolation, let's reflect on what isolation means and the consequences of isolation.