No Going Back is an account of my journey leading to, receiving and then learning to live with severe traumatic brain injury. My book provides insight into the often “hidden” struggles we go through and shows that it is possible to rebuild, recreate, and start life all over again.
Traumatic Brain Injury Improvement through Motivation – Jarvis Rehabilitation Method. The manual is a method to create internal motivation for improvement after a traumatic brain injury. These are specific strategies to maximize improvement in the Social, Cognitive, Physical, and Psychological Dimensions of engagement with life. Included are guiding principles and a specific plan for improvement. The Survivor records objectives, goals, and progress on Improvement Charts in each Dimension. Progress is measured and individualized for each survivor through monthly coaching sessions.
“Learning by Accident is an amazing love story, brain injury story, family story, and inspirational story all in one. The Rawlins’ difficult journey will leave you realizing that anything is possible if you have a strong family.”
- Jeff Ruskan, Chief Executive Officer
Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Virginia
“After more than 25 years working in brain injury as an Occupational Therapist, and as much as I know about its aftermath, Learning by Accident provided me with a much richer understanding of the emotional devastation it causes. This book will make you cry, laugh, give thanks, and believe in the power of love.”
Anne McDonnell, Executive Director,
The Brain Injury Association of Virginia
The year 2010 marks a quarter of a century since July 14, 1985, when we learned that Brian, our then 20-year-old son, had sustained a brain injury in a car accident. Injured Mind, Shattered Dreams tells of the first eight years of Brian’s journey and the intimately related journey of our family. Brian is the second oldest of our five children.
Many things have changed. Staples to close an incision are no longer new. The National Head Injury Foundation is now the Brain Injury Association of America. When I first heard Brian’s brain was injured, I frantically searched my bookshelf for information. Today we search the internet.
The caregivers and families of severely injured veterans, many of whom have traumatic brain injury and blast injury, face ongoing emotional and financial pressures. There are thousands of unpaid caregivers, mostly parents, spouses and siblings, who assist vets injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, as they struggle to get through each day.
This book is dedicated to all of the very special children in the world who have struggled to understand why God chose to make them so differently. Despite our physical or mental challenges, God has a very special place for all of us. Just like the giraffe with the extra long neck or the elephant with the unruly trunk, God loves us for who we are.
Sonya’s Story is a revolutionary, easy to use guidebook designed to help both the patient and caregiver. It begins with the truestory of Sonya’s learning experience as she overcame the obstacles of suddenly becoming the caregiver for her mother-in-law, a stroke patient.
New series available now!
Developed by Dr. Jeff Kreutzer and Dr. Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner at the National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, this series of 3 workbooks voices the many thoughts, feelings, and reactions that survivors, families and caregivers experience but too often do not talk about after brain injury.
My skull was crushed. I was dead. When I came back to life, reality became a psychedelic dream inside billions of bolts of lightening happening everywhere at the same time. This unimaginable constant sound inside my head still trumpets like a symphonic horn section gone mad forever. Only those who hear the sound understand this mysterious reality medically called Tinnitus (defined as: a continual noise in the ear, e.g., a ringing or roaring, usually caused by damage to the hair cells of the inner ear).
A mother’s narrative of perseverance following her son’s traumatic brain injury, Unthinkable is a book filled with universal lessons of struggle and triumph. Each chapter includes insights and tips for families and caregivers on coping, managing stress, and surviving the trauma of brain injury.
Dixie Fremont-Smith Coskie is a mother of eight, writer, public speaker, fundraiser, and advocate for children and persons with disabilities. Dixie Coskie and her son Paul speak at schools, camps, trauma centers, hospitals and rehab hospitals talking about the consequences and the reality of traumatic brain injury and childhood cancer.