Spiritual Reflections on Living With Traumatic Brain Injury

Tag: overstimulation

Children

Posted: August 7, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I married late in life but I never had a burning desire to have children. I always assumed I would have them but I wasn’t in any hurry. I loved being around other people’s children and I especially liked doing the children’s time at church. I remember when I first started doing it, I worried […]
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Hike

Posted: June 26, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
The top picture is from our hike yesterday at Craggie Pinnacle. We were too late to see the rhododendrons in bloom but it was fun anyway. It was foggy in the beginning so we couldn’t see too far into the mountains. Here is a picture of Sparky and me. I’d put pants over my shorts […]
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Poor Brain Injury Survivors

Posted: May 6, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I’m on a team of folks working with a man who was homeless but now lives in an apartment. The program is called “Hope to Home” and it consists of folks from various faith communities. It’s difficult living in regular housing once one has lived on the streets. The man with whom I am working, […]
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Shopping

Posted: March 19, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
I hate shopping. Even before my brain injury I hated it but at least I could spend several hours going to the various stores in the mall until I found what I was looking for. I would then continue my day by going to my other appointments. Now this is impossible. The lights and sounds […]
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Presbytery Meeting

Posted: January 30, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
The presbytery meeting vote came out the way I had hoped with a vote of 143-99. I made a short statement which turned out to be a 1 1/2 minute sermon. We voted on this same issue two years ago and I spoke then. I was stressed and vowed I would not speak this year […]
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