Deb Brandon: Living in Radiant Color

Beyond Brain Injury

Flashbacks and Survival

August 6, 2023

… memories flooded my mind. I shuddered as images from my first-year post-brain bleeds flashed across my awareness, when my mind was in total chaos, when the bloody brain consumed my entire existence.

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 31st

March 31, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is The Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku by Eric Chudler. Elephant on brain“You have a lot on your mind”Neurologist says. It’s probably safe to say that The Little Book of … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 30th

March 30, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is I Had Brain Surgery, What Your Excuse? by Suzy Parker. For years Suzy Becker, author of the “New York Times” bestseller “All I Need to Know I Learned from … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 29th

March 29, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is I’ll Be OK, It’s Just a Hole in My Head: A Memoir on Heartbreak and Head Trauma by Mimi Hayes. This book is a humorous and thoughtful cross between … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 28th

March 28, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the podcast Mimi and The Brain. A podcast about brains, for people that have them! Follow comedian and brain injury survivor Mimi Hayes as she interviews top neurologists, brain … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 27th

March 27, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is To Root & To Rise: Accepting Brain Injury by Carole J. Starr, MS An inspiring, interactive book and workbook to help brain injury survivors and caregivers navigate grief and … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 26th

March 26, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the Brain Injury Association of America website. “Brain injury is not an event or an outcome. It is the start of a misdiagnosed, misunderstood, under-funded neurological disease.” Brain Injury … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 25th

March 25, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the Brain Injury Network (BIN) website. The Brain Injury Network (BIN), an advocacy organization operated for and by survivors founded in 1998, is an international and USA national association … Read more

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 24th

March 24, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing by Lee and Bob Woodruff In January 2006, Lee and Bob Woodruff seemed to have it all: a happy … Read more

Brain Injruy Awareness Month: March 23rd

March 23, 2023

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the Bob Woodruff Foundation website. The Bob Woodruff Foundation ensures that our nation’s impacted veterans, service members, and their families have access to the highest level of support and … Read more