Focus your attention on abilities rather than on limitations.
This will help to promote awareness and generate caring feelings.
Anthony Aquan-Assee's Music
“Always Believe” 🙏
Anthony Aquan-Assee
Please read what I write here with an open mind. 🙏
"Why me ?"
"Why did this happen to me ?"
These were some of the initial questions that plagued me in the early stages of my recovery, following a horrific motorcycle accident.
I had sustained a severe Traumatic Brain Injury as well as numerous…
“I Survived” is the title of my first song I recorded in a professional music studio in Toronto.
My song discusses the story of my Survival and my Recovery from a severeTraumatic Brain injury.
“I Survived” is now available on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube as well as on other music streaming platforms.
If you wish,…
Albert Einstein's Desk
Conduct and Organize your life in a way that works for you.
Einstein did and he didn’t listen to the skeptics.
The organization on my desk and in my room works for me and it looks very similar to Einstein‘s desk, as can be seen in the attached picture :)
My former…
As a Brain Injury Survivor, I completely disagree with the statement that my brain makes me who I am.
I am NOT my Brain.
“To say that my brain creates me is like saying that paintings create their painters.”
My brain is a tool that I use to interact with my environment.
Sustaining a Traumatic…
Reasons to Smile :)
(1) A smile is a curve that can set things straight.
(2) A Smile is a remedy for when you are feeling blue.
(3) A Smile is more contagious than the flu.
(4) A smile reduces blood pressure & it can make you happier.
(5) A smile can’t be resisted. …
It is unfortunate that many people may question you when you are doing something that most others would not do.
Very few people question you when you are doing what everybody else is doing.
In order for a Brain Injury Survivor to fully experience their “Second Life and Second Chance”, they must do various things…
We all have our unique strengths in life.
It would help us greatly if we used our strengths to guide us as we continue to walk through our journey in life. We have much more to gain when we focus on our strengths than if we try to repair our weaknesses.
As we go through…
Anxiety is a very common challenge after someone sustains a Brain Injury.
A Brain Injury causes much doubt, uncertainty and not knowing.
It is this uncertainty and doubt that may result in anxiety.
In fact, the feelings of anxiety are a survival mechanism to try to ensure that our feelings of uncertainty do not lead…
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My greatest challenge is overcoming my own Brain.
I have learned that I am NOT my Brain and that I am much more than my Brain.
My brain is a tool that I use to interact with my environment.
Sustaining a Traumatic Brain Injury forced me to learn that I need to use my Brain…