February 2021
December 2020
July 2020
May 2020
8th August 2013: Sick Notes (Blogging After A Brain Injury, Before Alphabet Brains)
March 2020
5th August 2013: Neuropsychology (Blogging After A Brain Injury, Before Alphabet Brains)
February 2020
31st July 2013: Apple Abyss (Blogging After A Brain Injury, Before Alphabet Brains)
January 2020
22nd July 2013: Blogging After A Brain Injury (Before Alphabet Brains)
15th June 2013: Blogging After A Brain Injury (Before Alphabet Brains)
11th June 2013: Blogging After A Brain Injury (Before Alphabet Brains)
December 2019
August 2019
#BrainQA, Question 22: How are your dreams since your brain injury? Do you remember them?
June 2019
May 2019
The Importance of Having a Support Network After A Brain Injury and What To Do If You Don’t Have One
April 2019
February 2019
December 2018
Living With Someone Who Has a Brain Injury: Guest Blog Post, Paula and Bill
Living With Someone Who Has a Brain Injury: Guest Blog Post, Stephen and Naomi
November 2018
#BrainQA, Question 21: What are the positives since your brain injury?
September 2018
#BrainQA, Question 20: What hurtful comments have you heard?
#BrainQA, Question 19: ‘Have you taken on any pet projects since your brain injury? How did it go?’
July 2018
Brain Injury Survivors: When and how can we defend ourselves?!
June 2018
May 2018
#BrainQA, Question 18: For those who had brain surgery, how do you feel about your scar?
#BrainQA, Question 17: What’s improved since the early days of your brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 16: Do you like talking about your brain injury?
March 2018
January 2018
November 2017
Mementos that take me back to the early days of my brain injury
Apps that simplify living with a brain injury, part one: Password Managers
October 2017
Help Me Remember: A podcast episode on brain injury by Terrible, Thanks for Asking (TTFA)
Headway brain injury identity (ID) card: ‘A simple solution to a tricky conversation’
Quiet Tears: The Days When Living With a Brain Injury Become… Too Much
#BrainQA, Question 14: How did your brain injury happen? (There was a whopping 300+ answers so I’ve organised them into categories:
Part 12: Road traffic accidents
Part 7: Brain Tumour Surgeries
Part 6: Strokes, Aneurysms, Haemorrhages and Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs)
Part 5: Multiple Brain Injuries
Part 2: Infections and Diseases
Part 1: Poisoning, Epilepsy, Army Accidents and Medical Mistakes
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#BrainQA, Question 12: Social media: How much do you share about your brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 11: What’s the worst advice you’ve been given?
#BrainQA, Question 10: How many people have you met that also have a brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 5: What is one problem you find the hardest after your brain injury? (from May)
September 2017
Advice on meeting new people after a brain injury
July 2017
Daily struggles of life after a brain injury: Advice given
#BrainQA, Question 9: Who do you talk to the most about your brain injury?
How To Look After Yourself After A Brain Injury
June 2017
#BrainQA Question 8: If you’ve told strangers how did they react?
#BrainQA Question 7: Do you have or would you get a tattoo to represent your brain injury?
Organ Donation: Opinions and religious views on being an organ donor
May 2017
Creating a world from a bench in a crowded street: How I came to feel safe after my brain injury
#ANewMe: How brain injury affects my life and how it motivated me to create Alphabet Brains
Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: Therapy Thursday
Mental Health Awareness Week 2017: 10 products to cheer yourself and your brain up
#BrainQA, Question 4: Do your friends and family understand your brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 3: What’s the best advice you’ve been given since your brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 2: How often do you think about your brain injury?
#BrainQA, Question 1: What is one thing you’d like every brain injury survivor to know?
April 2017
My brain injury does define me: Looking over an old blog post
How Motivational Tattoos is helping me ‘Breathe’ and calm my injured brain down
Looking back over March: Brain Injury Awareness Month 2017
March 2017
Coral-Lynn’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
#WearItOut for The Brain Tumour Charity – Headbands and Bandanas for Brain Tumour Awareness
February 2017
When you come out of the storm… 4 year brain injury anniversary
Shelley and Taylor’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
January 2017
Living with chronic fatigue: A Pie Chart Illustration
Elliot’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
Joanne’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
December 2016
Pregnancy, Parenthood and Perhaps Fear When Living With Chronic Fatigue
Alphabet Brains is an Everyday Hero in The Happy Newspaper!
November 2016
The A-Z Project: An Art Therapy Colouring in Pages Project
October 2016
Facebook Giveaway: Brain Cosy by Katie Abey Design
Joanna’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
Randy’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
Sandy’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
World Mental Health Day – Your Brain Injury Does Not Define You… Or does it?
September 2016
Are other brain injury bloggers/websites your competitors or is it a community?
Overhearing “Brain Injury isn’t really a disability”
Distracting Your Brain From The Sensation of Pain
August 2016
How To Look After Yourself on Holiday (and How Not To…)
July 2016
Brittany’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
A Different Brain: Louis Theroux Documentary Review
Brian’s Speech on Brain Injury at His Local College
Emily’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
June 2016
Lumosity: A Brain Training App
May 2016
Jamie’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
Brian’s Brain Injury Survivor Story
“Has anyone ever reached out to you?”