To Root & To Rise: Accepting Brain Injury
£12.90
An inspiring, interactive book and workbook to help brain injury survivors and caregivers navigate grief and loss, find their strengths and move forward with a changed life.
As a brain injury survivor herself, author Carole Starr knows the depth of grief and loss of self that accompany brain injury, the challenge of coping with symptoms that are misunderstood by many and the peace that can come from accepting a new life and a new self. Carole describes the journey in a way that survivors, caregivers and professionals can relate to and learn from.
Tips and strategies include:
- Recognizing what acceptance is/isn’t and why it’s important for brain injury survivors
- Getting through the challenging first year after brain injury
- Moving past denial
- Coping with the loss of one’s old life and sense of self
- Creating a new life as a brain injury survivor
- Documenting and celebrating progress
- Responding to insensitive comments by others
- Finding something positive in the negative that is brain injury
- Letting go of the past and moving forward
Knowing that many survivors struggle with reading and remembering what they read, Carole made the chapters in To Root & To Rise short. The font size in the print version is larger than average, to improve readability. There are also spaces between each paragraph, to reduce the overwhelmed feeling that can come from looking at too much text.
To Root & To Rise is also a workbook, with optional questions in each chapter that encourage readers to take Carole’s strategies and apply them to their own experience. These questions can be answered on one’s own, with family members, with rehabilitation professionals, or with a brain injury support group.
To Root & To Rise is a unique resource for anyone living with a traumatic brain injury, post-concussion syndrome, stroke, brain tumor or other brain trauma, for family caregivers and friends of brain injury survivors, for brain injury support groups and for medical and neuro-rehabilitation professionals.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Spiral Path Publishing (25 May 2017) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 226 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0998652105 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0998652108 |
| Dimensions | 17.78 x 1.3 x 25.4 cm |
by Emma R-C
Not for me but can appreciate would help some people – think I expected too much
by NT
This book is something you must read If you have gone through a brain injury, any disability, any loss of parts of your body, disability, a new you which has become difficult and shocking for you. This book teaches you how to handle a new life that it may not be what you wished for, but it strengthens you to be a new you and improve yourself slowly, with no pressure, but look at life in a more positive way. The writer is a true hero, she has gone through so much, and yet she is teaching us to cope with such difficulties in life, to improve ourselves. Thanks