I was struggling trying to find a name for this blog. At first, I was looking for synonyms for ''broken brain'' : my broken, crushed, damaged, defective, fragmented, dysfunctional brain. But then I realized that my brain is not impaired, broken, defective. My brain is healing. My brain is different from the brain I used to have, but it is still working. It often feels as if it is shattered into thousands of pieces and that there are lots of wires that are not connecting. But does that really make it broken ? Or does that make it more pure, more authentic, more real, more experienced or even more skillful ? I may sound as if I am still in denial about my condition, but I refuse to think that my brain is broken. My brain is working differently. I could definitely qualify my brain as ''underperforming'' as I now have to struggle with everything I used to do with ease. However, I choose to see my brain's healing as an opportunity to see the world with different goggles instead of seeing it simply as my brain broken into millions of pieces. I’m wearing the goggles of a human recovering from a brain injury.
My brain is not broken; my brain is struggling, as much as I am, to be able to perform the tasks I once was able to do and was taking for granted.
My brain is not broken; my brain is helping me go through one of the biggest challenge of my life.
My brain is not broken; my brain is making me discover a whole new me.
I therefore call this blog my healing brain :
http://myhealingbrain.blogspot.ca/
Through this blog, I want to share my thoughts, perspectives and feeling as a person healing from a head injury. Maybe, hopefully, as I walk you through the head of a person recovering from a head injury, I will be able to raise some awareness around post concussion syndrome and mild head injury also known as mild traumatic head injury, concussion, mild head trauma, and brain injury.
