Brain Injury Recovery

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
~Wayne Dyer, from Power of Intention

In 1999, our daughter was born with severe brain injury. The doctors told us she wouldn't survive. She is doing extremely well, and I have developed a deep belief that if people are breathing, anything and everything is truly possible, including complete healing.

Along the was we have discovered many helpful therapies, ways of thinking, energy work, diets, etc, and on this page I will post many links and write what I know, briefly, about each link/therapy.

I will be constantly adding to this page as I find new sites and information, and I welcome your input, if you know of a therapy or website that has helped you and your child, please let me know about it so I can add it here.

Energy Healing

Consilience Energy Management (CEM): previously known as consegrity, this therapy has made huge shifts in our lives. More information can be found at their website www.energymirrors.com. Parents can learn this empowering therapy through a six day class, see the website for the class schedule.
Both Melissa and David Sokulski offer treatments at The Birch Center in Pittsburgh, PA. They also can do distance treatments, so even if you are not in Pittsburgh, you can experience CEM.

The human brain is a highly differentiated form through which consciousness enters this dimension. It contains approximately one hundred billion nerve cells (called neurons), about the same number as there are stars in our galaxy, which could be seen as a macrocosmic brain. The brain does not create consciousness, but consciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. When the brain gets damaged, it does not mean you lose consciousness. It means consciousness can no longer use that form to enter this dimension. You cannot lose consciousness because it is, in essence, who you are. You can only lose something that you have ,but you cannot lose something that you are.
~from A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle, pp. 292-293

Articles

Here is my article in Mothering magazine, Breastfeeding Molly

Dietary Support for Children with Autism, ADHD, and Special Needs, by Melissa Sokulski, M.Ac.

Dietary Therapies

There are a couple of great dietary therapies that I would recommend highly for children with brain injury, autism, seizures, etc.

The first is the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and you can find a lot of information about it at www.pecanbread.com. This is the original diet to treat celiac disease. Elaine Gottschall, who wrote Breaking the Vicious Cycle, promotes this diet for children with Crohn's disease (it cured her own daughter of Crohn's disease...the first system of which to clear was seizures), digestive disorders, autism, etc. Her website is www.breakingtheviciouscycle.com.

The other recommended diet is The Body Ecology Diet, and that website is www.bodyecologydiet.com

Other therapies

The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, in Philadelphia, PA. This is Glenn Doman's "Institutes". A good book to start with is "What to Do About your Brain Injured Child", by Glenn Doman. One particularly important thing we learned from them is:

Brain injury does NOT affect intelligence.
Brain injury affects the ability to COMMUNICATE intelligence.
Epilepsy, mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, rigid, flaccid...these are all SYMPTOMS of brain injury.

Europeds. Intensive physical therapy, in Pontiac, Michigan. You go with your child from 2-4 weeks, the therapy is 4 hours a day, 5 days a week.

ABR therapy, in Montreal, Canada (also in Belgium.) Gentle technique which the parents learn and do on the child, 3 hours a day. The focus is on deep structural changes, which then allows for more movement.