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Online Support Community for Crash Survivors
We understand that recovering from a motor vehicle crash can be a challenging journey, both physically and emotionally as well as financially. The emotional toll of a motor vehicle crash can be profound and we believe in the power of community and mutual...
A Home For Your Complex Feelings During Recovery from a TBI
For many traumatic brain injury survivors, the world had stopped long before the planes were grounded and the restaurants were closed to curb the spread of Covid-19. In March 2020, we watched as everyone’s plans, vacations, routines, movie nights, hobbies, and...
Introducing An Online Support Group for Fatal Crashes
Looking for an online support group for fatal crashes? One of the worst things anyone can ever go through is the death of another human being and unfortunately a common incident that leads to the loss of human life is that of a fatal motor vehicle crash. Being in a...
Trauma Survivors Network Offers Much Needed Support
In 2008, the Trauma Survivors Network (TSN) was developed by the American Trauma Society (ATS) to help trauma centers provide the support and services that patients and their families need during their recovery from serious injury. To date, the TSN is now...
My Life Changed in a Moment
My life changed in a moment. While returning from taking my son and his friend to school, a car crashed into my SUV, causing it to roll. It took the Jaws of Life to remove me from the vehicle, and I remember nothing. When I woke up in the hospital, I didn’t know who...
Quarterly Newsletter For Crash Survivors
Are you aware that there is a Quarterly Newsletter for Crash Survivors? The Sharing Our Recovery Newsletter has been specifically created for anyone that has survived a motor vehicle crash and has been designed to help you pick up the pieces as you recover. Our...
NextSteps Is A Free Online Program
NextSteps is a free online program that many members of our Crash Support Network Group have benefited from. As written on their website, NextSteps is based on the principles of self-management. The self-management approach to health recognizes that YOU play the most...
Introducing The Crash Support Network
This year, we are excited to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary by launching our very own “new and improved” website, The Crash Support Network. I can’t believe that this month, it will be three years since I first created an Online Support Group for survivors of a...
Second Chance At Life
Second Chance at Life - On Saturday January 4, 2014, I was on my way with my youngest of 6 children (then 5 years old] to pick up two of our daughters from a sleepover. The last sleepover for our oldest who was due to leave for college that next Monday. We...
Healing with Music Therapy after Brain Injury
Healing with music therapy is possible. When I presented myself at the front door of my new singing student’s home, I had no idea what a sweeping change would come over my life, once that door was opened. The gentleman seeking lessons was a kind man, eager to sing, as...
Brain Injury- Jumbled Brain
As if facing a life time with a brain injury isn’t enough, you become more likely to have other accidents. Everyone will have accidents, that’s just being human. But brain injury survivors are at higher risk of injuring themselves. Yesterday I did another one, that...
From Tragedy to Hope
From tragedy to hope - Sometimes the most amazing things come from tragedy. Just ask David A. Grant. November 11, 2010, was supposed to be a typical day for David. Late that afternoon, as he had done for years, David hopped on his bike for a daily ride. His cycling...
From Crash Survivor to Creating a Support Group & Resourceful Website
One week prior to my crash, I was on vacation in Florida with my boyfriend and I was suddenly jolted awake in the middle of the night with a terrible feeling that something awful had happened to someone close to me. It was a feeling that I had never experienced before...