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21Jun 2021 by Drew Niemann

122: Bonking Your Head!

Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 122! In today episode we are going to talk about "Bonking Your Head". What happens then? Terry hit her head 3 times in a stretch of a week and it set her back initially. Terry tells us about some of the tools and strategies she used to get herself out it as quickly as possible and how she is faring since. She also has some comments and suggestion to offer as it relates to staying ahead of the pain and getting to the root causes ultimately. Let us know your thoughts! Episode Notes & Resources: NOTES- A Magnet to My HeadTwo Bangs, One FallKicking TBI's Ass??Effects of Bonking the HeadHitting the Deck, LiterallyBeing a ProDeathly Afraid of FallingA Catch…

14Jun 2021 by Drew Niemann

121: Terry’s Takes 10.0

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 121! On the program today we offer another installment of Terry's Takes. In this episode we explore the following topics. Handling Bad Days in Your Recovery, Patients Guilt and Building Your Tribe after your injury. As always Terry is completely honest with here experiences around her healing and todays episode is now exception. She gets quite candid throughout the conversation and offers her perspective about setting priorities, travel concerns and planning properly, accepting who you are now and the importance of connecting with other Warriors to name just a few. Let us know your thoughts! Episode Notes & Resources: NOTES- A Milestone and Terry is in Rare FormDrew is Still Learning About TerryBad Days....Setting Priorities95% AcceptanceTravel ConcernsHaving to Seriously…

07Jun 2021 by Drew Niemann

120: There is Always Hope with Cristabelle Braden

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 120 with today's special guest Cristabelle Braden. Christabelle an award-winning singer/songwriter, speaker, writer, podcast host, and a big advocate for brain injury community. She suffered her first traumatic brain injury as a teenager and was forced to re-learn how to do many of life's daily tasks. It becomes pretty obvious rather quickly that she has come a very long way. She hosts her own brain injury podcast called Hope Survives and started a very robust online community called Hope After Head Injury to name just a few things she has been working on. Cristabelle tells us in finer detail about her injuries and recovery, how important her family was in her healing, and why and how she has gotten herself into being 100% committed to helping other…

31May 2021 by Drew Niemann

119: The Bike is Medicine with William Galloway

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 119 with today's special guest William Galloway. This is a fascinating story of a gentleman who after his own injury, decides he is going to ride his bike from New Jersey to California to seek out treatment. As he learns on this sort of Forrest Gump trek, that it is quite the adventure. He gets to meet all sorts of generous people along the way, learns to sleep in the cold and finds himself feeling better riding. So, William decides to keep doing it with the hope of raising awareness about the invisible injury. At the time of this recording William has covered 27,603 miles, crossed the country 9 times and has been featured in many newspapers, and local…

24May 2021 by Drew Niemann

118: A Game Changer – ION* Biome

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Here we go with Episode 118. A few weeks ago on the program Terry and I discussed a real difference maker in her recovery with Upper Cervical Chiropractic care. This week we offer another real "Game Changer" in her healing journey. It's called Ion* Biome. Terry has been teasing it a touch the last few months on the program, but hadn't felt comfortable until recently in diclosing it because she wanted to make sure it had a lasting affect before recommending. ION* Biome is a supplement aimed at improving gut health. We talk a little about what it is, how we learned about it and the some ways that it has helped Terry as well as me. It truly is something we believe in around here.…

17May 2021 by Drew Niemann

117: A Family “Impacted” with Pattiann Berton

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 117 with today's special guest Pattiann Berton. Like most of us, Pattiann and her family found themselves in this world after her oldest son Patrick experienced an injury during a youth football game. For years following, Pattiann and Patrick couldn't get a proper diagnosis, appropriate treatments or therapies that were actually helpful. It truly went all wrong originally. After years of living through this, Patrick finally healing, they as a family decide they are going to help others and develop Impacted Inc. An organization geared to helping youth recovering from concussions and creating awareness. Today Patrick is thriving in law school and Pattiann continues to give away her knowledge through the very robust organization she and her family have…

10May 2021 by Drew Niemann

116: Top Secret – Upper Cervical Care

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Here we go with Episode 116. In today's discussion we explore Upper Cervical Chiropractor Care. This has become part of Terry's treatment plan n the last 6 or so weeks and it has made a very good impact so far. We discuss what exactly it is from a lay-mans perspective, how it differs from traditional Chiropractic care, how we learned of it in the first place and how it is helping Terry improve. As the episode moves along we also speak to some of the resources out there that could help you along in locating one in your area as well. This treatment has been significant in Terry's healing since she has been actively treated in this manner and has become a very big believer in…

03May 2021 by Drew Niemann

115: Bitten by the Vestibular Bug with Helena Esmonde

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 115 with today's special guest Helena Esmonde Helena is a doctor of Physical Therapy and she specializes in treating patients with neurological, balance, and vestibular conditions. Terry wanted to get the vestibular side of things spoken to on the podcast by an expert so we were lucky when Helena reached out to offer here perspectives to the community. Throughout the conversation you will hear Helena's passion for what she does ring through multiple times. We get to explore what BBPV is, what a Balance Vest is and how it may help and about the infrared goggles that she has developed for practitioners to use while treating patients as just a few points. If you are having balance and or dizziness concerns this…

26Apr 2021 by Drew Niemann

114: Tools, Tips and No-No’s with Melissa Biscardi

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> Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Welcome to A BATTLE WITHIN, Episode 114 with today's special guest Melissa Biscardi In case you missed it the first time around you can check out our first chat with Melissa in episode number 62. In today' chat Melissa and I discuss as Terry was not able to join in on the conversation some tips and tricks around healing including the importance of sleep and finding treatment virtually. In addition, we also explore the new app that Melissa has released on both Apple and Android devices to help you in you recovery. Make sure you listen in all the way to the end as she has an offer with the app that gets you some bonus material! Let us know your thoughts! WHERE CAN YOU…

19Apr 2021 by Drew Niemann

113: Warrior vs. Survivor

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Hello Warriors and Battle Buddies! Here we go with Episode 113. In today's discussion Terry and I review some differences between a warrior and a survivor. One is not necessarily better than the other in this setting, but we both feels that there are differences and attributes between the two. Some of the themes we hit upon include the actual dictionary definitions, what are the warrior traits and can the warrior traits be developed and the fact that personal responsibility is critically important. Aside from that we touch upon this amazing community and some of the incredible people we have gotten to know and what they have accomplished to help others. Let us know your thoughts after giving a listen! Episode Notes & Resources: NOTES- Terry Gets Fired Up!Definitions Between the…