Book Release
Writing My Brain Saved My Life – a non-scientific telling of brain injury from inside out, a memoir launched on January 12, 2014, seven years after a near fatal motor vehicle accident that left Angela Simmons with a TBI (traumatic brain injury), and multiple physical injuries.
The story is told through prose, poetry and photography in a memoir that crosses genres and integrates a journey of discovery to recovery.
It is a book about attitude- how hers threads and weaves through the pages to re-examine a life. It shows how her passion for writing and photography pulled her from no language to words, from physical limitations to one-handed photography, from pain to management, and from blankness to contribution.
It has been about how her attitude helped re-frame a life from challenge to opportunity, from apathy to engagement and how choice is always an option, no matter what each moment brings.
In 2007 Angela’s life changed in an instant when she was run-over by a diesel truck, and tanker north of Edmonton on highway 43. Subsequent years addressed a traumatic brain injury and multiple physical injuries. The years have been about re-learning to live a full life following passions and living with changed abilities and capacities.
This is a story of that journey. It contains twenty-eight vignettes/essays, poems, six full-colour photo-collages and 12 Vision cards to be used as tools for contemplation and wellness within its 165 pages. The story spans three intensive years of struggle, trials and gifts to find a new normal.
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For information and interviews contact: Angela Simmons
Writing My Brain Saved My Life
a non-scientific telling of brain injury from inside out
memoir by Angela Simmons
Writing My Brain Saved My Life – a non-scientific telling of brain injury from inside out, a memoir launched on January 12, 2014, seven years after a near fatal motor vehicle accident that left Angela Simmons with a TBI (traumatic brain injury), and multiple physical injuries.
The story is told through prose, poetry and photography in a memoir that crosses genres and integrates a journey of discovery to recovery.
It is a book about attitude- how hers threads and weaves through the pages to re-examine a life. It shows how her passion for writing and photography pulled her from no language to words, from physical limitations to one-handed photography, from pain to management, and from blankness to contribution.
It has been about how her attitude helped re-frame a life from challenge to opportunity, from apathy to engagement and how choice is always an option, no matter what each moment brings.
In 2007 Angela’s life changed in an instant when she was run-over by a diesel truck, and tanker north of Edmonton on highway 43. Subsequent years addressed a traumatic brain injury and multiple physical injuries. The years have been about re-learning to live a full life following passions and living with changed abilities and capacities.
This is a story of that journey. It contains twenty-eight vignettes/essays, poems, six full-colour photo-collages and 12 Vision cards to be used as tools for contemplation and wellness within its 165 pages. The story spans three intensive years of struggle, trials and gifts to find a new normal.
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For information and interviews contact: Angela Simmons
Writing My Brain Saved My Life
a non-scientific telling of brain injury from inside out
memoir by Angela Simmons