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I found my sparkle! Have you?

I found my sparkle! Have you?

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...
Coronavirus: 9 top tips to help you survive self-isolation

Coronavirus: 9 top tips to help you survive self-isolation

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...
5 tips to help you accept your new life with a brain injury

5 tips to help you accept your new life with a brain injury

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...
Strength training helps my brain injury

Strength training helps my brain injury

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...
Brain injury fatigue makes me sound like a robot

Brain injury fatigue makes me sound like a robot

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...
Crutches, accepting my brain injury and celebrating wins

Crutches, accepting my brain injury and celebrating wins

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...
How to deal with the emotions of life with a brain injury

How to deal with the emotions of life with a brain injury

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...
Trusting others to make better decisions about your life than you can

Trusting others to make better decisions about your life than you can

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...
Post-Concussion Syndrome: learning to accept when your brain says no

Post-Concussion Syndrome: learning to accept when your brain says no

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...

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