Experiencing My Brain is a podcast devoted to detailed discussion with brain injury survivors about their experiences, problems, and ways that they have found to navigate their lives. These stories are important to help the non brain injured world make sense of the problems that come with brain injury.
Experiencing My Brain
Claim This Podcastby Daniel Avesar PhD
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40 episodes
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Experiencing My Brain is a podcast devoted to detailed discussion with brain injury survivors about their experiences, problems, and ways that they have found to navigate their lives. These stories are important to help the non brain injured world make sense of the problems that come with brain injury.
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Recent Episodes
April 7, 2026
Gasoline & Fire - Battling The Chaos of PTSD and TBI
<p>I met Mandi on LinkedIn. She had a podcast about brain injury called Brain Wellness, the Podcast with Mandi NP. When I learned that she had worked as a neurology nurse practitioner prior to her brain injury, I had to speak with her. One of the first things she told me was that having a TBI taught her so much that she had never learned about brain injury before.</p><p>In this discussion, we got into many important brain injury details. Mandi shared her primary and secondary brain injury problems, how these problems aggravated one another, her experience of hitting a wall of fatigue, her challenges in gaining awareness of her brain injury difficulties, and the emotional turmoil that came with it.</p><ul><li>Just the fact that we discussed “primary” versus “secondary” brain injury issues was a detail that is hard to come by.</li></ul><p>PTSD and TBI also aggravate one another. Mandi used the gasoline and fire analogy to describe that interaction, and she shared how her struggles with PTSD after her brain injury improved with EMDR.</p><p>Overall, this discussion was full of important lessons, details, and concepts about brain injury that helped illustrate the nature of this condition and the challenges of recovery. Mandi shared openly about how the road to improvement after brain injury was anything but linear or easy. Despite the many struggles and the complexity of brain injury, she improved and continued to improve, while also educating and helping others with brain injury.</p><p>Here is the discussion I did on Mandi's podcast:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQp3u4t02o&t=13s" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQp3u4t02o&t=13s</a></p><p><br></p><p>- - -</p><p>Experiencing My Brain is a podcast devoted to detailed discussions with brain injury survivors about their experiences, challenges, and the ways they have found to navigate their lives. These stories are important in helping the non-brain-injured world better understand the problems that come with brain injury.</p><p><br></p>
March 24, 2026
Brain Injury In The Shadow of Psychedelics: Adam's Self Guided Journey For Neuroprotection In The Face of Way Too Many Brain Injuries
<p>Adam is a brain injury survivor who had multiple brain surgeries to remove tumors, plus a traumatic brain injury, and gamma radiation treatment all from the age of 14 through his early 20s. </p><p>Early on is brain injury journey he discovered how to use psilocybin in secret before his brain surgeries to deal with the mental and internal changes, the extreme emotions, and the absolute uncertainty that come with having so many brain surgeries and injuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Adam shares is both a remarkable and crazy journey. </p><p><br /></p><p>We discuss many fascinating details of his experience and get into the internal change that come with his brain injuries, as well as the life lessons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adam's story provides insights into the ways that both psilocybin and brain injury alter a person mind and inner self. Changes that ultimately cannot me imagined or truly put into words. </p><p><br /></p><p>- - -</p><p>Experiencing My Brain is a podcast devoted to detailed discussion with brain injury survivors about their experiences, problems, and ways that they have found to navigate their lives. These stories are important to help the un brain injured world make sense of the problems that come with brain injury.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Disclaimer:</p><p>The views and opinions shared in this podcast should be looked at as the views of brain injury survivors and not as medical or clinical advice. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care professional with any brain injury problem.</p><p><br /></p>
January 25, 2026
"But You're So Smart, Why Would You Have a Problem With That?" Part 2 with Dr. Maria Romanas
<p>This is part 2 of 2 part discussion with Dr. Maria Romanas, about her sever TBI that she had when she was 18 years old, and her journey to improve, learn how to manage her problems, and her education through an MD/PHD program. Across her story no one spoke about "brain injury," so she learned to push herself and deal with invisible problems without knowledge of actually having a brain injury.</p><p>Maria describes her accident, the grief of loosing a close family friend, and how her mother learned to "push her gently" to progress and help Maria regain what she could. Maria describes the ways she was driven to be the academic star she had always been, while at the same time facing strange inabilities with executive function and other capacities.</p><p>Maria is clearly brilliant. Yet throughout her education and career, her difficulties have often been misunderstood and attributed to stress, parenting, or forgetfulness, rather than recognized as bran injury problems. She also learned how to manage and improve her abilities in unique ways like "getting her cues" and managing her symptoms.</p><p>This story is both inspiring and education for anyone trying to better understand brain injury, and as a doctor Maria shares a lot of thoughts and ideas about brain injury (both in parts 1 and 2 of this discussion). </p><p><br></p><p>- - -</p><p>Experiencing My Brain is a podcast devoted to detailed discussion with brain injury survivors about their experiences, problems, and ways that they have found to navigate their lives. These stories are important to help the non brain injured world make sense of the problems that come with brain injury.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Disclaimer:</p><p>The views and opinions shared in this podcast should be looked at as the views of brain injury survivors and not as medical or clinical advice. Always seek the advice of a qualified health care professional with any brain injury problem.</p><p><br></p>
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