Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury: My Recovery Story
The brain is the storyteller of self—it sculpts personality, filters experience, and governs feeling. When its capacity to process is shaken, we lose more than function: we lose a portal to presence, and we crave compassionate care. In this personal telling, I trace my own passage through traumatic brain injury—a rupture that forced me back to first principles: nature, relationship, and slow repair. This is a healing story that continues, rooted in the wild wisdom of life itself.
My Perceptual Reality: Learning to Befriend Pain
Flat on the forest floor, I discovered the mind’s power to shape reality. What began as a back injury spiraled into months of crawling, shrieking, and relearning how to walk—a journey through misdiagnosis, self-advocacy, and the choice to listen rather than numb.
This story unravels the slow, intentional work of moving at the body’s pace, embracing cannabis as an ally, and discovering that healing isn’t about returning to who I was, but about accepting change as the only constant.