S2 E40: Mariah and Eryn: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
S2 E40: Mariah and Eryn: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going
We’re BAAAAAACCCKKK! And better than ever! Check out Season 2, episode 40 to find out what Mariah and Eryn have been up to and where the show is headed in 2022. Also, tune in for some great, hard-earned advice on how to help yourself and others dealing with brain injury along with what to look for in a healthcare provider. These lessons have come hard won by yours truly, Eryn! Join us in celebrating the start of Season Two!! Happy 2022 to you all!!
In this episode:
Where We’ve Been
Burnout
The need for seasons, pacing, and rest
Health Updates
The dangers of all or nothing thinking
Leads to a crash
Long term recovery; when the symptoms don’t consume you daily
Identifying as brain injured, what does it mean long term?
Brain injury as a fanny pack, it comes and goes but can be taken with you if chosen
Living in brain injury vs. letting it own you vs. moving away from it
You can move past it and some of us are lucky enough to not have to live in it daily
Mariah’s gallbladder surgery: a reminder of needing self-care
Priorities shift over time, then you readjust, and they shift again
The power of saying “No”
Bye Mariah!! Tata for now. Thank You!!!!!!!
When do you let go of brain injury? Can you?
Maybe it is when you don’t need or have to think about it every day?
Brain injury as a spectrum
Not sitting in the trauma or reliving it
This is not a ‘peace out’ for Mariah
Krempels Center: a support program for brain injury survivors and caregivers. It is local in NH but also online
Mariah is working with this agency
Allows her to apply lessons learned in brain injury a different way
Having a brain injury gives her an advantage
New life after brain injury can be a very devisive term. So many are trying so hard to obtain their old life
Where MHP is going in the future
Season Two starts now!
Series on relationships and brain injury
Shows on trauma, meditation
IG relationships and interactions help to form the speakers and topics for the upcoming season along with being a personal support for Eryn in her recovery
Eryn’s updates
2021 was 1 mile forward and 2 miles back
Blood in brain in now reabsorbed and old, damaged circuits are trying to come back on board. It’s like using a cell phone with a cracked screen. It might still work but it doesn’t work well
Yes! Final confirmation that Eryn DID have a STROKE.
Medical and personal acknowledgement of this has allowed for better resources
Depression from November 2021 to August 2021
It gets dark
When joy returned Eryn’s brain wasn’t used to the high energy
Movie recommendation: Inside Out
Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction
Emotional Dysregulation
How to help someone or yourself while they’re going through it:
Food
Provide a safe space to share, be heard and respected
Acknowledgement allow for awareness. Awareness allows you to have a choice of how you want to respond
You have a unique skill set; listen to it and use it
Have a broad support system filled with many different people with many different skills
Make sure the person suffering knows you are there for them
Not everyone can be there or has the right skills to be present in that moment. This is OK! It is preferred that you know your lane and stay in it.
Find people with the right skills
Learn how to listen to yourself
Awareness allows you to make a choice
Know yourself. Know your intuition. Learn to know what you need. Practice it.
Healthcare providers (HCP) may not be supportive
Look for HCPs who know how to say, “I don’t know; let me help you find someone who does.”
HCPs may not listen or recommend.
They likely don’t understand you.
They may recommend treatments that are WRONG for YOU. (They don’t know you like you know YOU!)
Self advocacy is needed with HCPs but is really hard!
Many providers need their egos managed. Some doctors do not like to be challenged. Massaging their egos is a skill and doesn’t always work.
Doctors may lose trust in you. You are different after brain injury and they don’t get it or have a working knowledge of what it is like living with an injury.
Could be due to a lack of knowledge on HCP’s part
Neuroplasticity takes a LONG time. You need providers who will give you time.
Mariah’s tattoo: rescheduled for January, follow her MHP account for updates
This is not a goodbye for Mariah, just a talk to you later, see you soon!
Links to any resources mentioned:
Mariah’s Marketing Agency: https://stoutheart.com/
Joe Borges @joesorocks @neuronerds
Krempels Center: a brain injury support and programming network. Reach out to see if it is for you at https://www.krempelscenter.org/
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Eryn on IG @eryn_makingheadwaypodcast
Mariah on IG @mariah_makingheadwaypodcast
MHP on IG @makingheadwaypodcast
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