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4M ago
I read this book about 6 months after my accident, having seen a podcast with Matthew Walker in. He's a leading sleep scientist and provides some pretty simple, but vital lessons about sleep that I took to heart. Safe to say, it's 5 years later and it's probably one of the books I remember [...]
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8M ago
The Silverlining Brain Injury Charity is bringing together the power of creativity in all its forms to support children with brain injury!
We are delighted to invite you a live performance of our first Book: The Woodland Friends The book reception is on Wednesday the 26th of June from 6:30-8:30 at
1 Wimpole St, London W1G 0AE
The performance will be lead by notable actor Maryam d’Abo who herself is a survivor of brain injury. The Silverliner’s are proud to create meaningful projects that contribute to helping and supporting others
Silverliner’s inspired by children from t ..read more
The Silverlining Charity Blog
1y ago
Sometimes the smell is so distinct
That same smell of the tubes
That I breathed through
That gave me the breath that I didn’t even have
The memories come back in waves
Making me stumble throughout my day
As if oxygen was meant to be tasted this way
Through plastic holes, from a machine
It was so strange
The ominous, vague feeling
Almost as if I knew that this was foreign to me
But I could not remember what it felt without
Without the thing that I imagined could be pushed too far
Suffocating me
But also the thing that I needed
It teetered on being the instrument for my life or death
It was so ..read more
The Silverlining Charity Blog
1y ago
The Ahead Together Conference: Families after Brain Injury – the Untold Stories | 11 May 2023, Oxford
This is the third Ahead Together Conference aimed at professionals who support families after brain injury. The first event took place in 2019 with the theme of helping professionals and families work together more effectively – the keynote was a highly regarded Clinical Neuropsychologist from the USA who pioneered family focused work. The second event in 2021 (virtually) was focused on Family Identity and how brain injury affects it; the key note speaker was Lemn Sissay – who spoke a ..read more
The Silverlining Charity Blog
2y ago
Born a Crime is a novel written by Trevor Noah who is a famous comedian and TV presenter in America.
His book tells the story of his life growing up during the Apartheid era in South Africa.
The book is funny in places, sad in others. A very good read.
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The Silverlining Charity Blog
2y ago
I wrote this in 2008 and it has proved useful to many worldwide
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The Silverlining Charity Blog
3y ago
Let your heart shine
Even when
There is no time
For a rhyme
Most important
Remember your friends
Even when the song ends
Sing or play until the end of the song
The notes and lyrics are never wrong
When it is our tune
Sung from the heart
Even though it might never chart
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The Silverlining Charity Blog
3y ago
To my dear old Dad (Howard or Geepee to the grandchildren) who died of COVID-19 contracted in hospital when being treated for cancer 4 Dec 2021 RIP
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3y ago
Trees Can Hear You by Nat Parr, 2021
Like a tree during the winter, no life that we can see
All alone and silent, all its leaves have floated free
The tree can’t hear you talking, and cannot speak your words
It cannot reach its arms to you, it saves that for the birds
And yet the tree stands solid, its routed to the ground,
Its heart still beats within it, if you listen for that sound
The tree can’t feel you touch it, it cannot show its pain
But maybe that’s not quite so true… maybe look again…
The tree looks like its dying, sick and ill and bare
But please lean in more closely, spend th ..read more
The Silverlining Charity Blog
3y ago
The experience of brain injury can be devastating for families; I have borne witness to it myself in the many cases I have worked on throughout my legal career. When an individual suffers a traumatic injury to their brain, their personality typically changes too, and at its most severe turn those closest to them into full-time carers.
If a parent is no longer the same person, where does that leave the rest of the family? If a grown child needs full-time care, how does that upset the life that so many of their loved ones might have expected? What if, after brain injury, the support that is ne ..read more