• July 18, 2019
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    I chose my health over the job I loved

    BY: ALYSON ROGERS For two and a half years, I worked at a social service agency for youth in Toronto.  I worked as part of a team to provide basic needs and case management to youth from diverse backgrounds.  […]

  • June 27, 2019
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    Useful tools or symptom inducers? On using smartphones when you have a brain injury

    BY: BLUE HELMET GIRL I had my accident in July 2015, right in the middle of the smartphone era. About a month after my TBI, I was in the hospital and I got my phone back for the first […]

  • June 25, 2019
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    April 2019 Community Meeting Recap: Protecting Yourself from Scams and Phishing with Jason Peddle

    BY: JULIA RENAUD BIST’s April Community Meeting featured guest speaker Jason Peddle, Vulnerable Persons Coordinator at the Toronto Police Services who spoke about protecting yourself from scams and phishing. About Jason Peddle: With a background in Kinesiology, Social Work, […]

  • June 25, 2019
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    Protect Yourself from Scams

    BY: JULIA RENAUD BIST’s April Community Meeting featured guest speaker Jason Peddle, Vulnerable Persons Coordinator at the Toronto Police Services who spoke about protecting yourself from scams and phishing. About Jason Peddle: With a background in Kinesiology, Social Work, […]

  • June 20, 2019
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    How functional MRIs can detect brain injury when other scans can’t

    BY: AMANDA FORESTIERI Individuals who suffer from mild to moderate brain injuries often have long-lasting debilitating symptoms, despite the brain appearing ‘normal’ on structural MRI or CT scans. BIST Social Work placement student Amanda Forestieri, sat with neuroscientist Dr. […]

  • June 18, 2019
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    Yoga Brain

    BY: ALYSON ROGERS Before my brain injury, I was convinced yoga wasn’t for me; I was a year-round athlete and long-distance running legs were not yoga legs in my mind. After my brain injury, I was convinced yoga wasn’t […]

  • June 14, 2019
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    Choosing to parent after brain injury

    BY: MELISSA JIROVEC Parenting is hard work. It challenges you in ways you never imagined you’d be challenged, forcing you to think outside the box and re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about pretty much everything. Add a brain […]

  • June 7, 2019
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    I. Am. Awareness.

    BY: MARK KONING Here we are into the month of June and Brain Injury Awareness Month. Every year I wonder of its impact. What minds are being awakened and new things learned? Do people come to an understanding of […]

  • May 7, 2019
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    March 2019 Community Meeting Recap: Transforming Your Stress with Michelle Jacob

    BY: JULIA RENAUD BIST’s March Community Meeting featured occupational therapist Michelle Jacob who discussed managing emotions and demonstrated HeartMath technology to our members. Michelle Jacob About Michelle Jacob: Michelle has been an occupational therapist for ten years. She is also […]

  • March 20, 2019
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    Welcome spring: Balinese cucumber salad

    BY: JANET CRAIG Looking for a new salad idea to welcome spring? This is a gluten and oiĺ free vegan salad which is really refreshing. Make it using the new Spiralizer tool, which is available in several dollar stores.   Ingredients […]

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