My Latent Self, Recovering My Soul After Brain Injury: A View From The Inside Of Brain Injury,Used

This book very clearly, lucidly and dramatically explains the overwhelming challenges that changed the life of the author, Anne E Ricketts, after she fell on her head in July 2000. It is almost inconceivable how one person could overcome so much, with such traumatic brain injuries, and without the support of any health professionals until over four years after the impetus that literally tipped her life upside down. Through sharing her own remarkable story, the author has given of the self she was before, the automatic ego she endured, and the whole self that she has so successfully rebuilt. As she gradually emerged from the fugue of brain injury Annie realised that she had gleaned many valuable insights through her experiences, not only about how her brain works, but also about life and how it works. She is well aware of how brain injury can leave you feeling as though you have lost your soul. In this time of global awakening the whole world is focused on ways to find peace, joy, happiness and abundance. In this case, the almost total obliteration of the early part of one life brings a unique perspective to the table. This book tackles an intimate journey through what it means to be human, how we find our purpose in life, and very importantly, how we sort the wheat from the chaff to find out who we are, whether we have been brain injured or not. This book and its author are undoubtedly an inspiration to many other people, both to those who are living with similar problems and those just wishing to hear about her successful strategy in winning through to the amazing achievement of writing this book and rebuilding her life from scratch. As the living proof that people can not only regain their lost identities, lives and relationships, there is more than hope on the horizon. The experience of a TBI has moved the author from the conscious automaton of her thinking preinjury, through the prison of brain injury and back out the other side to the clarity of almost momentbymoment conscious choice that has enabled her to see exactly what was happening to her and why. Packed with incredibly stirring descriptions of how it feels to live without a thinking mind, the voice that is you talking to you, this book is a must, not only for those affected by or working in the field of brain injury, but also for anyone who has ever felt splintered from their Self, and for anyone who wants to get on the real inside of brain injury and brain dysfunction. It is an unimaginable gift to everyone whose life is affected, in any way, by problems associated with the brain.