What happens when mental fatigue and brain fog start impacting every part of your life? If you only had a small percentage of your brain to work with, what would you do? Get frustrated and give up? Or try and use what you did have to the best of your ability? I had to learn to be more efficient with that small amount of brain power I had left that wasn’t busy healing my body. Doing what I’d always done in the same way but less often wasn't the way forward. Trauma happens in everyday life, and it changes the brain. But so does healing. Here’s how I started healing my brain.
Courage is not the absence of fear
After my accident, surgery, and subsequent time in the hospital, I was allowed to go home. I thought the hardest times were behind me. I was wrong.