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Shireen Jeejeebhoy is an artist, author, and blogger. She obtained a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto, launched into writing and coding, and slammed and somersaulted into the unknown life of brain injury.
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Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me
Beautifully written first person account of life after a brain injury. . . . This is a must read for anyone with a brain injury and anyone who is close to someone with a brain injury.
Lifeliner:
The Judy Taylor Story
A compelling story. . . . Reading it will make you laugh, smile, cringe, cry and most importantly, think. If you want inspiration, Lifeliner has no shortage packed into its pages.
Time and Space
What an amazing journey into the future! . . . There are some interesting future technologies: I loved that scene with the elimination vessel, and I wouldn’t mind trying those shoes! . . . I couldn’t stop reading until the end.
Aban’s Accension
To the author’s credit, avoids religiosity and preachiness . . . With this approach, Jeejeebhoy lets Aban’s Accension remain a gentle allegory, which may play in the reader’s consciousness (as it has mine) for weeks or months.
- Why I’m Grateful for My Deviceson July 16, 2024
Personal Perspective: Two psychologists gifted me control over my at-home treatment, releasing me from dependence on appointments, approval, and prescription renewals.
- Why Did Brain Injury Happen to Me?on June 26, 2024
Personal Perspective: “Why did this happen?” These words rumble through the bewildering, shocking aftermath of a catastrophic brain injury.
- Can You Regain Lost Talents After Brain Injury?on May 27, 2024
Personal Perspective: How can you play emotions you can’t feel? How can you read music with broken neurons?
- Moments of Joy and Hope Fuel Perseveranceon April 23, 2024
Personal Perspective: Brain injury turning life into a daily endurance marathon can wear us out. One way to persevere is to notice moments of joy.
- How Does Brain Injury Damage Self-Love?on March 18, 2024
Personal Perspective: We’re born knowing we exist and deserve to. And while experiences can damage self-love, nothing takes away the relationship with ourself like brain injury.
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Brain Injury Grief is Extraordinary Grief
We are beginning to understand the nature of grief from brain injury.
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Marriage Breakdown After Brain Injury
What do therapists need to know to help ailing marriages after brain injury?
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The How of Loving Detachment
After brain injury, how do you disengage from people who make you feel worse?
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COVID-19 Welcomes the World to Brain Injury-Type Isolation
A virus shows the world what life is like for their injured friends and family.
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Telogen Effluvium, aka Stress-Induced Hair Loss
Did you know a concussion affects hair? Hair loss is real!
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Concussion Is Brain Injury:
Treating the Neurons and Me
The book is divided into chapters where some are like a novel because she is telling us her thoughts through this nightmare and then [other chapters are] more like science information . . . to give encouragement and advice. A very brave woman.
She:
An Urban Fantasy
Put simply this is the best urban fantasy story that I have ever read period. From word one I was hooked into this tale, possessed by it if you will.