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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.
- Mattering After Brain Injuryon December 21, 2025
A Personal Perspective: For people with brain injury, mattering to others is not only about being valued; it’s also about being given the chance to recover to our full potential.
- Experiencing Climate Distress on Top of Brain Injuryon November 18, 2025
People with brain injury aren’t immune to climate distress. The challenge is how to adapt climate-conscious therapy for isolated people with neurophysiological impairments.
- Health Care Turnover Cuts Trust and Erodes Patient Careon October 21, 2025
Personal Perspective: When health care practitioners move on and clients with traumatic injuries are forced to educate and adapt to new faces, trust breaks and coping fails.
- Next-Generation Brain Injury Treatmentson September 24, 2025
Personal Perspective: Neurostimulation and neuromodulation are next-generation treatments that harness the brain’s regenerative ability to restore health.
- The Risks of Labeling Brain Injuryon August 27, 2025
Labels can limit a person’s perception of both their brain injury and whether they can recover fully or at all. Grounding terms in neurophysiological findings can lessen stigma.
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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- Black-and-White Mary
on July 15, 2025A Philosophy of Mind thought experiment as experienced through my eyes. Some may see in black and white but don’t gain colour perception to complete the B&W Mary experiment. I completed a version of it after brain injury and surgery.
- God, Angels, Demons, Divine Beings, Free Will
on March 15, 2025What does it mean that Deuteronomy chapter 32, verses 8 to 9, says God portioned 70 nations to 70 divine beings and kept Israel for themself to rule over? What kind of beings invisible to us exist?
- Storytelling Inspirationon March 8, 2025
The adage to writers is to read what you want to write. But watching K-Dramas is an exercise in learning good storytelling technique.
Brain Injury Website Soft Launch!
Good news! My brain injury website soft launch is here!! My pandemic project, an idea brewing in my …
Gamma 38 to 42Hz Audiovisual Entrainment for Brain Injury, Single Subject Study
Introduction In 2012, following my inclusion in and subsequent exit from a drug trial that increases…
Early Reviews of The Soul’s Reckoning
I've placed The Soul's Reckoning on pre-order and have submitted it for review at various sites. Ear…
NaNoWriMo 2025, The Soul’s Turning Done and Won!
I'd planned on finishing National Novel Writing Month 2025 on Sunday, 30 November, but I woke up thi…
Announcing Pre-Order for The Soul’s Reckoning eBook
At last! The Soul's Reckoning preorder is live! The 2nd novel in The Q'Zam'Ta Trilogy. "a thought-pr…
Literary Titan Review of Time and Space
"If you enjoyed the unsettling social critique of The Handmaid’s Tale or the time-bending thrills of…
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.