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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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Mind Explorer Newsletter on Substack.

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Front Cover Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me with title in blue across a faded ice scape over a frozen blue and white wave with footprints in the snow going from bottom right around the hill of the wave
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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.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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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.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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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.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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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.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Concussion Is Brain Injury

Restoring your life after brain injury

  • Why I’m Grateful for My Devices
    on 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 Perseverance
    on 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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Mind Explorer
  • Letters to the Churches: Conquering and Failing
    on July 6, 2024

    Summarizing Revelation 2 and 3’s promises made to the seven churches to get a global view of what will happen when people conquer challenges or fail to bear patient witness to Jesus.

  • Revelation: Chapter 4, Verses 6b to 11
    on June 29, 2024

    Who or what are the elders, and what do 24 of them represent? I’m skeptical of N.T. Wright’s assumptive patriarchal interpretation. And I theorize on 24 in light of the 7 lampstands.

  • Revelation: Chapter 4, Verses 1 to 6A
    on June 17, 2024

    What do pets have to do with the initial vision of God on a thundering throne surrounded by elders and facing a sea of glass? Do animals really not understand “because” like humans do??

Reintroducing Compositionally Shireen with MailPoet

Wanting to make designing newsletters easier and much more attractive, I'm trying out MailPoet and b…

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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…

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Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony

I barely thought about the Olympics leading up to today. My ears registered the news announcing the …

Updating My Writing Steps

Updating my writing steps: Getting back into fiction writing means reminding myself how I got from i…

My bluesky profile.
Leaving Twitter and Facebook

I’ve been putting off this moment — leaving Twitter and Facebook — but it’s time to say bye to Twi…

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The UK Vote and Dual Citizenship: Do I Vote?

This year, for the first time, overseas British citizens can vote in the UK election, which means I,…

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.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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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.

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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