Counting the Days Recovery through the Romance Side of the Brain

By Taylor Smith

Traumatic Brain Injured Survivor, author, out of a coma by the Oxford Book of Verse.
I am a survivor of Traumatic Brain Injury for more years than I want to recall. My building blocks or tips from my recovery will help you. What you get with my show is my experience. I'm giving you recovery tips for your success. I understand your pain personally. I've had your struggles. You can find more about my journey on my website totallytraumaticbrain.com. I am totally traumatic brain. I lived it!

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Counting the Days Recovery through the Romance Side of the BrainJun 13, 2023

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I the first day of the next part of my life

My podcast is moving more away from disability and into healing and recovery, from where I started to where I’m headed. A podcast ago, I knew I was changing direction but I didn’t know where or what path. I think I have that now also, I will in the next podcast introduce my other half. You're getting to know the brain-damaged totally Trumatic brain, but you will know the Lesbian totally Trumatic brain. That’s a journey in itself. I won’t go into that because my second book will go into all of that and much more. The second book is all of me, so those of you out there struggling with relationships or wherever you are on the spectrum. Maybe I’ll have something for you. When it comes down to love, rejection, and heartache, to me, it’s really much the same, but it isn’t the same, and a lesbian relationship is not a straight relationship. With all the issues in the news and in stores about Pride. I want to cover that. I found community LGs that feel the way I do and we’ve started a few groups so we have companionship. All right, I better get to work. Have a better day today than you did yesterday.

Jun 13, 202312:39

Identity for disabled

I realize from my last podcast that I was talking about identity. Be careful what you identify with. I have never identified with my Disability. I ignored it and the more I ignored it the better my career was, but I did not deny it there’s a difference and I’ll go there later, but I screwed up my future by identifying with my disability working in a disability for disability environment. If you absorb yourself with disability, being disabled, working with disabled, that are very similar actually to your disability, cognitive disability, you lose your self in your care and your love, your compassion, everybody gains but you. My, let’s talk about it.

May 29, 202321:33

Surviving the title, title wave. Recovery through faith and personal awareness and growth.

I’ve been through event since my accident December 25, 2021. What come out of that accident would’ve broken most people but I’m not most people. I don’t want you to be most people. I survived horrific awakening to learn. People will stab you in the back. I learned the truth is horrible. Face it. Get over it. Not to trust if you lead with heart and compassion. I was caught, unaware because I cared. When you have a disability. I suggest you avoid working with people with disabilities. You may lean in that direction. I got caught in that briar patch. I didn’t think hard enough about myself because I was leading with my heart. I did so much and I’m happy for that but not how I was treated. So this podcast essentially is giving you some thoughtful tools. I always survive but my main goal is your recovery and if you can learn through my situation’s then that’s why I’m here.

May 24, 202322:22

A New Direction without Disabilities

I'm changing my channel. I don't know yet what direction. I will not be providing resource services for people with disabilities other than to update my subscriptions. It may take on traumatic brain injury specific. That was my intent in the beginning. If you buy a subscription those will be updated podcast. You can ask me a question using my website: totallytraumaticbrain.com. My goal at this point my life is different. I think this is one of my favorite episodes because it is about changing directions.

Apr 11, 202300:14

The Good. Bad. The Ugly Truth about Support Services 2

In this second podcast it's about the good, the bad and ugly of support services. A spin off of the first one I did, which was very successful. I noticed that listeners were interested in that topic over any other. I wanted to finish, the community housing that I spoke of in the first episode. Supportive services agencies need to be aware that lacking support for disabled clients creates a housing shortage. What I mean by that is many agencies; I'll just talk about the agency I work for as Director of Housing. We turn down housing now because our experience is that the homes are destroyed or they're so dirty because support services don't provide independent living skills.If agencies aren't taking community housing because they're not doing their job. It's heartbreaking to see a homeowners home destroyed. That means housing is removed for disabled because we're part of the availability count. We only have two houses now for our regional center clients. I talk about Frank's house. We have 4 clients as tenants. That community house has issues. I thought it would be a good example. I talked to Frank yesterday and the problem you guessed it, is support services, not doing their job from Frank's perspective. I did agree with him on that but I think possibly they've shaped up because we did approach them about competence. But the fued is ongoing between SLS and the home owner wanting respect, curtesy, and comfortable that his house is taken care of. This agency has been disrespectful and over controlling. How do you say nicely, IT IS NOT YOUR HOUSE.

May 19, 202200:14

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly Truth about Support Services

In this podcast, I talk about my work with supportive services referred to as ILS or SLS. Also regarding caregivers who are hired to care for your friend or family member. We have a growing problem in this "care" industry. In this episode, I discuss the problem and my thoughts on resolution. But one thing is sure if you have someone who is being cared for by another individual make sure there is some accountability and clear about what that assignment is and see it is carried out. I was fortunate to have my mother. My left brain. She gave up her life to see I had one. Instead of remaining dependent after my accident. My mother was told by so-called professionals. I would not have a job or go to school. Today I am an author. I am a lawyer. I mediate in the area of disabilities and affordable housing. I attained my dreams and goals. But may there never be an end to our dreams or goals. I want you to be fulfilled and know that no matter where you're starting from. You can achieve everything you want to achieve. caregivers can be detrimental or instrumental!!!!

Aug 09, 202122:01

Identify Your Fear Traumatic Brain Injury

FEAR, the mother of all monsters. My shark story deep in Hawaiian waters a Tiger shark and I faced off. I am here telling my story.

Traumatic Brain Injured Survivor, author, lesbian, out of a coma by the Oxford Book of Verse.
I am a survivor of Traumatic Brain Injury for more years than I want to recall. My building blocks or tips from my recovery will help you. What you get with my show is my experience. I'm giving you recovery tips for your success. I understand your pain personally. I've had your struggles. You can find more about my journey on my website totallytraumaticbrain.com. I am totally traumatic brain.

Jul 18, 202129:08

Traumatic Brain Injury - Mind Mapping for Success

I am a survivor of Traumatic Brain Injury for more years than I want to recall. My building blocks or tips from my recovery will help you. What you get with my show is my experience. I'm giving you recovery tips for your success. I understand your pain personally. I've had your struggles. You can find more about my journey on my website totallytraumaticbrain.com. I am totally traumatic brain. You can read a lot on the Internet about traumatic brain injury, recovery, the brain. How it functions or how it doesn't function. You can listen to your doctors or neurologist. But what you get with me is; I invented these methods of beating the odds. I used it, I succeeded with these steps that I share with you.

Jul 11, 202104:51