Healing Through Journaling on Recovery Now

Barbara and Dawn co-facilitate journaling groups for people with brain injury, based on Barbara’s book, After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story. They have witnessed how the writing and sharing short of journal entries has great power for fostering healing after brain injury has altered people’s lives. Dawn Westfall, MS, CCC-SLP, received her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Eastern Illinois University. She works at HealthSouth Deaconess Rehabilitation Hospital, where she has specialized in treating adults with brain injuries for the last 22 years. For 12 years she assisted with developing and managing a community rehabilitation program that assisted individuals to live independently. Barbara Stahura, Certified Journal Facilitator,  since 2007 guided people with brain injury, family caregivers, and others in harnessing the power of therapeutic journaling for healing and well-being. Co-author of the acclaimed After Brain Injury: Telling Your Story, the first journaling book for people with brain injury. A member of the faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute and of the Lash & Associates Speakers Bureau on Brain Injury. http://www.barbarastahura.com This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life's terms. I introduce topics, and survivor's share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery. More will be revealed! Tune in, stop in and call in. This is a "we" recovery program, because it is in the "we," that we find the new "me." We focus on the four A's of Recovery...Awareness, Acceptance, Action and Adaptation. This is a place for survivor's striving to become thrivers.  :) Host is Kim Justus, author of In a Flash: Miracles Here and Beyond found at www.inaflash.org