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Veronique Theberge

Jul 63 min read

Parenting with a Brain Injury

Parenting is hard in the best of times, how does brain injury makes this role more complex?

Improve your mental wellbeing, no drugs required

Patricia Sarmiento

Jan 163 min read

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.

Veronique Theberge

Oct 26, 20234 min read

Brain Injury, Fears and Growth

Are you finding brain injury recovery daunting and scary? In this blog I explore how we can turn some of the associated fears into growth.

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.

Processing Strong Emotions After Brain Injury

Veronique Theberge

Jan 5, 20233 min read

Processing Strong Emotions After Brain Injury

Holidays are a very special time if the year, but they can also be a harsh reminder that things are different for those with chronic illness

Four Great Reads on Keeping Your Brain Healthy

Allie Crestwood

Oct 18, 20223 min read

Four Great Reads on Keeping Your Brain Healthy

Guest post by Allie Cooper on how reading can help keep your brain healthy. Four book suggestions to combine brain health while reading.

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

Aug 18, 20227 min read

Connecting with Brain Injury Survivors

How connecting with other brain injury survivors can be beneficial to your recovery. Tips on initiating connection and sharing my experience

Veronique Theberge

Aug 2, 20223 min read

Mindfulness for Brain Injury Recovery

What is mindfulness and how can you benefit from introducing it as part of your brain injury recovery plan? Example of practices and tips.

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

Mar 21, 20227 min read

Setting Up Goals After Brain Injury

Setting goals following brain injury is an important part of moving forward, but it is also much easier said than done.

Veronique Theberge

Feb 14, 20223 min read

That's Life

Normalising and learning from the roller coaster ride that is brain injury recovery.

Veronique Theberge

Jan 14, 20222 min read

It's the Small Moments

How has your perception of all the small moments that make up your daily routine changed since experiencing your health issues?

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

Sep 16, 20213 min read

Loving ourselves after brain injury

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

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?