I decide to do a stream of consciousness writing for this month's essay.
Stream of Consciousness Writing- A Monthly Essay
Reflections on COVID-19 from someone who overcame personal tragedy
Reflections on the global pandemic of COVID-19 from my perspective as a survivor of trauma (in my case, a severe Traumatic Brain Injury/TBI).
Brain Injury: A Reflection on the Years Post Injury by a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivor
An essay reflecting on my years as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor.
Brain Injury Month: Book Review
Here’s a book review of Leslie Jamison’s collection of essays on illness and empathy, “The Empathy Exams.” Since March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, I have decided to do my featured posts (book review, pop culture, essay, writing update and extra pop culture content) related to brain injury or illness. This is my book review. “The Empathy Exams” is a book of essays on injury, recovery, illness and empathy instead of specifically on brain injury.
Default Settings After TBI
Sometimes my injured brain acts totally different than before my Traumatic Brain Injury and other times I feel like those default settings appear. Here’s an essay about such a phenomenon.
The Two Moviegoers (An Essay)
For this essay I discuss what it was like being a movie fan before brain injury and after.
Essay: Holidays of Good Cheer after Tragedy
An essay where I frankly discuss being in good cheer during the holidays after you’ve survived tragedy.
Essay: The Sounds are Coming From INSIDE My Head
An essay where I talk about how my severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has left me with severely diminished hearing and distorted hearing that makes it seem like I have a horror movie INSIDE my head. Creepy!
Quite the imagination: A personal account of TBI and hearing loss
I switch around my posting schedule to write an essay. This essay is on the importance of imagination and how I used my imagination to make it through hearing distortions and brain trauma.
