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Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group is continuing as Lifelines: The Brain Aneurysm Support Group.



All meeting information for our brain aneurysm group, as well as the (nearly) complete 2001 - 2011 archive of Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group is now located at Blue Thumbtack.

Lifelines: The Brain Aneurysm Support Group

Mission Statement Lifelines: The Brain Aneurysm Support Group strives to address the various issues that arise during the discovery/rehabilitation/recovery period through support, information and education. The group serves to educate its members about brain aneurysms, how to improve brain health and the possibility of recovering brain function. Lifelines also provides an open forum where survivors, caregivers and health care professionals may meet and share their experiences. This exchange allows the group to address quality of life issues.

Philosophy Every individual, with brain aneurysm or without, has suffered some type of affliction. The emphasis for healing and recovery is not to focus on what has happened but instead to focus on what a person can accomplish in the aftermath of tragedy. What is most important is how a person responds to life’s challenges. We are survivors. We are not victims.

Purpose “For human beings adaptation to change cannot take place through instincts. It has to take place through something called awareness, motivation, free will and the ability to anticipate the future.” Self-Healing: A Personal History, René DuBos from The Healing Brain, A Scientific Reader, Edited by Ornstein/Swencionis

Goals • To assist patients during the discovery/rehabilitation/recovery phase of brain aneurysm by providing education about the brain, brain aneurysms, brain health and the possibility of recovering brain function. • To identify the “silent epidemic” of brain injury and offer a forum for patients and their caregivers to feel supported and find direction during this period of adjustment. • To allow for exchange of thoughts, ideas and experiences.

Meetings Lifelines will meet on the SMU campus in Dallas on a (somewhat) quarterly basis from 10:30 a.m. to noon; these meetings are educational with invited speakers. All other meetings, group discussions and social activities, will alternate locations around the Metroplex in order to reach those members who have difficulty driving to SMU. The times of these meetings vary. With the exception of June 29th, all meetings are on the second Saturday of the month.

Please contact Kimberly at (214) 289 – 0286 or aikmank[at]gmail[dot]com for more information. If you need information or resource information about brain injury, please call or email Kimberly but kindly note Lifelines meetings are now aneurysm specific.


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Calendar 2013

January 12, 10:30 a.m. to noon – Introductions, Southern Methodist University, Embrey Human Rights Program, 109 Clements Hall (Building #39 on SMU Visitor Map 2012-2013)

February 9, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Group discussion, private dining room at La Madeleine in Addison

March 9, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Group discussion, private dining room at La Madeleine in Addison

April 13, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge in Sherman, Second Saturday Nature Program

May 11, 10:30 a.m. to noon – Topic TBD, Southern Methodist University, Embrey Human Rights Program, 109 Clements Hall (Building #39 on SMU Visitor Map 2012-2013)

June 29, Time TBD – Dinner and movie, Angelika Theatre, Mockingbird Station

July 13, Time TBD – Dinner and movie, Angelika Theatre, Shops at Legacy, Plano

August 10, 10:30 a.m. to noon – Topic TBD, Southern Methodist University, Embrey Human Rights Program, 109 Clements Hall (Building #39 on SMU Visitor Map 2012-2013)

September 14, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Group discussion, La Madeleine at Vista Ridge Mall, Lewisville

October 12, 10:30 a.m. to noon (or earlier as weather dictates), Arbor Hills Nature Reserve, Plano

November 9, 10:30 a.m. to noon – Topic TBD, Southern Methodist University, Embrey Human Rights Program, 109 Clements Hall (Building #39 on SMU Visitor Map 2012-2013)

December 14, Time and location TBD, Holiday Party

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Please Note: Lifelines: The Brain Aneurysm Support Group is a continuation of our original brain injury support group. After celebrating 10 years of meetings between June 2001 and December 2011, Lifelines: The Brain Injury Wellness and Recovery Group stopped meeting effective December 31, 2011. The information posted at Blue Thumbtack.com is migrated from this original Lifelines blog site and serves as an archive, listing all meeting information, including documents, distributed at the meetings when available.

The archive can be found in two ways:

1.  At http://bluethumbtack.com/category/brain-injury-wellness-and-recovery

2. Clicking on the Category Brain injury wellness and recovery in the right column. Please feel free to post comments or questions.

NEW: Lifelines is available on Facebook as well as an on-line web forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/lifelinesdallas