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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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- Reading Behavior After Brain Injuryon February 22, 2024
As reading cognition returns, switching the focus of treatment from daily practice to reading wider and more complex materials becomes critical.
- An Anniversary View of Fictional Brain Injuryon January 19, 2024
Personal Perspective: Recovery is more than restoring neurons. Pre-existing insults to the brain and social support matter too.
- What Are Holidays Like as a Brain Injury Survivor?on December 20, 2023
Personal Perspective: Holidays for brain injury survivors are days of isolation and grief, left behind by loved ones, and cared for by those paid to do so.
- Brain Injury Is a Mystery Crying to Be Solvedon November 30, 2023
Personal Perspective: Brain injury is like a mystery. A grey and white thing hidden inside a bony thing, the brain runs us and none can see the damage when it’s injured.
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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- Revelation 2 Thoughts So Faron April 13, 2024
What is the Resurrection like? Revelation is supposed to tell us. Here’s what I’ve understood so far from chapter 2. It ain’t Heaven, and it requires work. But it’s not an exclusive club, either.
- Revelation: Chapter 2, Verses 8 to 11on April 6, 2024
The Letter to Smyrna warned them of suffering to come, echoing in a way how groups and individuals today are hounded. Did their test of faith lead to their reward? We don’t know yet. And it’s the same for us. Is faith worth torturous endurance?
- Revelation: Chapter 2, Verses 1 to 7on March 30, 2024
Fear of offending aka biology holds us in its thrall. N.T. Wright asks us if we hesitate to speak up about strong beliefs out of fear of offending. How does this question relate to the message John conveyed to the church in Ephesus?
Reintroducing Compositionally Shireen with MailPoet
Wanting to make designing newsletters easier and much more attractive, I'm trying out MailPoet and b…
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…
Solar Eclipse 2024, Toronto Cloudy Version
Solar eclipse 2024 makes four. Yup, I've now witnessed four solar eclipses! My first one remains my …
Storygarden Summit
I signed up for the Storygarden Summit on a whim. I’d enjoyed Plottr’s writing craft book club on St…
Decision-Making
Decisions require emotions, so writes Lisa Cron in Story Genius. Maybe that’s why for years my decis…
Memory of Portraiture
Cleaning out the upper part of my antique desk — a task decades overdue! — a photo fell into my hand…
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.
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.