by findingmysparkle | Sep 9, 2023 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Hey warriors! It’s been a minute (ahem, 6 months) since I last blogged but I’ve been hearing a bit of a theme in my social media comments and DMs and I wanted to address something. Don’t worry, I’m not getting on my soap box for long and I have a wee challenge for you...
by findingmysparkle | Apr 5, 2020 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Coronavirus: 9 top tips to help you survive self-isolation Coronavirus is a pandemic reaching far across the world. Many of us are being told to self-isolate for the first time and here in the UK we’re in lockdown. I’ve had to self-isolate many times over the past 2...
by findingmysparkle | Jan 15, 2020 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Five tips to help you accept your new life with a brain injury A traumatic brain injury is life changing and learning to accept your new life with a brain injury can be challenging. Many aspects of your life change overnight, you feel like a completely different...
by findingmysparkle | Sep 4, 2019 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Strength training helps my brain injury Do you want to exercise after a brain injury and feel like it’s never going to happen? Perhaps you’re so tired and in so much pain that it’s a massive effort to stand up in the shower? I have a brain injury post-concussion...
by findingmysparkle | May 23, 2019 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
My brain injury fatigue makes me talk like a robot Headway Action for Brain Injury Week 2019 This week is brain injury association Headway’s Action for Brain Injury Week. This year its campaign Brain Drain: Wake up to fatigue! is raising awareness of fatigue, which is...
by findingmysparkle | Nov 18, 2018 | Finding My Sparkle Journals, Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Crutches, accepting my brain injury and celebrating wins Day 260: Sunday 18th November 2018 It’s now 8 ½ months I’ve been living with my brain injury post-concussion syndrome. It’s safe to say I’ve fallen off the blogging wagon the last couple of months. Not having...
by findingmysparkle | Aug 5, 2018 | Finding My Sparkle Journals, Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
How to deal with the emotions of Post-Concussion Syndrome Day 155: Sunday 5th August 2018 It’s just gone 6am, I shed a lot of tears last night and I’m stealing a line from Jessie J as a reminder to myself and all my brain injury warriors that “it’s ok to not be...
by findingmysparkle | Jul 16, 2018 | Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
“Other people know you better than you know yourself” – Ahmed Khalifa It’s nearly 5am, I should be zonked out in the land of zzzzz and instead I’m wide awake like a kid at Christmas. We’re getting the keys to our new flat today and soon I’ll be getting shipped...
by findingmysparkle | Jun 28, 2018 | Finding My Sparkle Journals, Tips for living with Post-Concussion Syndrome
Finding My Sparkle Day 117: Thursday 28th June 2018 It’s mid-afternoon, my body is knackered, my hair is a state, my legs are so sore I want to rip the skin off them and I’m sitting in a garden that doesn’t belong to me on a scorching hot day when I should be in the...
