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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.

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

  • Coping After Brain Injury
    on 18 August 2026

    No matter where we live, people with brain injury need adaptive, productive coping capacities. What does the research say about coping when the injury reduces capacity?

  • Anxiety After Brain Injury
    on 17 July 2026

    Anxiety after brain injury emerges from impaired brain states, from direct neurophysiological damage to the social consequences of brain injury.

  • When Priorities Compete, How Do You Choose?
    on 24 June 2026

    Personal Perspective: Catastrophic brain injury affects every part of your life and every part of you, giving rise to multiple top priorities. How do you create order?

  • Neuromodulation Restores Balance and Gait After Brain Injury
    on 30 May 2026

    Brain injury often causes balance and gait impairments. Neuromodulation offers a noninvasive, time-limited way to restore or significantly improve balance.

  • Brain Injury May Reverse Pre-Injury Trauma Work
    on 11 April 2026

    Personal Perspective: Trauma can reanimate after a brain injury. I found that this type of “unhealing” is not discussed during neuro-rehab.

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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
  • Leaving Substack, Keeping Mind Explorer
    on 29 August 2026

    In an effort to streamline my blogging and reinvigorate my writing life, I’m moving to The Atmosphere. What’s that you say? Read on!

  • Auditing Parsi History in India
    on 27 June 2026

    Economic History in Gujarat Settlements and Contributions of Parsis to Bombay provided a glimpse into Parsi adaptability.

  • The Mistress: A Parsi Poem
    on 13 June 2026

    The Mistress by Keki Daruwalla inflames, entices, elicits curiosity, and surprises with a twist on the last line that demands: reread me so you’ll understand.

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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 …

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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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Transitions: From Traditional Blogging to The Atmosphere

Moving my blogging on WordPress and Substack to The Atmosphere. This is my last WP post before I tra…

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Sediment in Toronto Water Means a New Heat Pump

City of Toronto lets sediment in our water supply. Sediment damages heat pumps. My 6-week saga of re…

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Literary Titan Q&A for The Soul’s Reckoning

Literary Titan gave The Soul's Reckoning 5 stars with an intriguing, insightful review. And challeng…

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Zoroastrianism: Introduction and Major Tenets

Over the weekend I was accepted into the TISS-PARZOR Programme on Zoroastrian culture & civilisation…

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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