
After the Crash
How to Keep Your Job, Stay in School, and Live Life After a Brain Injury
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Kelly Tuttle
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There’s help and hope for traumatic brain injury survivors who need to live life while they heal.
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can change your life instantly and leave you feeling as if you’re living with a stranger in your head. You’ve survived a cataclysmic event, but living a normal life again seems impossible. How can you thrive in your day-to-day when healing is a battle?
Neurology nurse practitioner Kelly Tuttle—also a TBI survivor—offers help and hope in her guide After the Crash. Based on her own recovery experiences, Kelly shares strategic steps that will help you keep working, learning, and living life as your brain and body heal. She also provides tips to prevent your livelihood from being devastated by a TBI.
You’ll discover:
- Surprising strategies and other tools you can use to support brain healing while working and studying.
- Medical symptoms to expect as you recover, including dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, and vision changes.
- How to choose a health care provider or specialist for help with head injury symptoms.
- Six lifestyle tips to promote and sustain brain healing and cognitive function, like getting plenty of sleep and exercise, choosing brain-healthy nutrition, and practicing mindfulness.
- Six steps to help you start living life to the fullest after sustaining a head injury, such as redefining core values.
After the Crash is a must-listen if you’ve survived a TBI and plan to continue working and studying despite daily emotional, physical, and cognitive challenges. Get it today, and begin to understand your new brain and learn to love the new person you’re becoming.
©2023 Kelly Tuttle (P)2023 Kelly TuttleListeners also enjoyed...
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- Kimberly McVean
- 05-19-23
Amazing Book!!!
Great information presented in a clear and engaging manner. Would highly recommend to any one recovering from a head injury or anyone who loves someone who has a history of a head injury.
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