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Marin Brain Injury Network Announces an Author’s Event
‘In Their Words’
Authors reflect on their journey through brain injury
The Marin Brain Injury Network is hosting three inspiring authors to share their experience of living with a brain injury and writing about it - three strong women, three different forms of brain injury, and three different stories. The event will take place August 7, 2010, (11:00 am to 3:00pm), at the Marin Brain Injury Network, 1132 Larkspur, CA 94939.
Alison Bonds Shapiro, MBA, works with stroke survivors and their families, provides motivational speaking and training for rehabilitation patients and their care networks and is the author of Healing into Possibility: The Transformational Lessons of a Stroke. Surviving and thriving after having experienced two devastating brain stem strokes herself, Alison has come to understand the power of attitude and approach as we work with life's challenges. She regularly speaks and teaches at a leading HMO in Northern California, is the advisor to a non-profit dedicated to stroke survivors, writes an ongoing blog for Psychology Today and co-produced the DVD What Now? Sharing Brain Recovery Lessons. Alison is also a highly regarded business consultant, a published illustrator, a transformational coach, and the chair of the board of trustees of Saybrook University in San Francisco. Her website is www.healingintopossibility.com
Megan Timothy is the author of 12,000 Miles for Hope’s Sake and Let Me Die Laughing: Waking From the Nightmare of a Brain Explosion. Not content with simply recovering from a massive brain injury and writing and publishing her books about the experience, she got on her bike and rode 12,000 miles around America. Along the way she met wonderful people, had incredible experiences, and saw amazing things that generated the grist for her newest book.
www.megantimothy.com
Tyler Stanley is a Survivor, Author, Speaker, Resource Consultant, and Advocate on the topic of Traumatic Brain Injury. Ms. Stanley is also the radio host of her own program called totallytraumaticbrain for survivors and their families on Blog Talk Radio Sunday mornings from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. Ms. Stanley teaches poetry to survivors as an avenue to express what can feel good like a hug in the brain up against an otherwise difficult and possibly long struggle. Ms. Stanley’s background also includes a career in law and publishing. She currently serves on the Board of the Marin Brain Injury Network. You may contact her at http://tylerstanley.net. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/totallytraumaticbrain/blog/2010/05
Admission is free - donations to the Marin Brain Injury Network will be accepted. Refreshments will be provided.
To RSVP or for more information contact: Keith Rosenthal, Marin Brain Injury Network
415-461-6771 or keith@mbin.org.