Every Brain Injury is Different. You Need a Unique Plan for Recovery that works, doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, and helps you live life more fully. You need Mind Your Head Co-op.

Life in the land of the brain bludgeoned is hard. We struggle and strive each day with the burden and challenges of Brain Injury, which just makes the world that much harder.

There is hope. Entering life as fully as possible is the absolute best way to recover as much as possible. Mind Your Head Co-op exists to help you create and implement your custom long term recovery plan.

Deacon Patrick's Log
Radically Reset Your Brain Radically Reset Your Brain

The best way to recover from brain injury is to enter life as fully as possible, going “as fast as we can, as slow as we must. These shifts in how we live help us access God’s engineering, which is... Read More →


Snowball and “Less impact causes more damage” effects of Brain Injury in the NFL

From the Denver Post’s blog on the Denver Broncos: On first and goal from the 2, Broncos halfback Rob Lytle, the rookie from Michigan, went off the left side, was hit by Jack Tatum, lost the ball, and... Read More →


Tragedy and how to talk about it

Here is a post I’ve done on “How to Talk with Children about Tragedy” in light of the Connecticut shooting. It applies to adults as well.  Read More →


About Brain Injury
Radically Reset Your Brain Radically Reset Your Brain

The best way to recover from brain injury is to enter life as fully as possible, going “as fast as we can, as slow as we must. These shifts in how we live help us access God’s engineering, which is... Read More →


Snowball and “Less impact causes more damage” effects of Brain Injury in the NFL

From the Denver Post’s blog on the Denver Broncos: On first and goal from the 2, Broncos halfback Rob Lytle, the rookie from Michigan, went off the left side, was hit by Jack Tatum, lost the ball, and... Read More →


How Does the Sound of a Rifle Shot End Your Ability To Walk? How Does the Sound of a Rifle Shot End Your Ability To Walk?

One of the aims of running the Colorado Trail is to raise awareness for brain injury and how it effects those of us with bludgeoned brains. I got the question “How does the sound of a rifle make it... Read More →


Strategies & Solutions
One Year Stick Free! One Year Stick Free!

Barbara, my wife, tells it this way: “One year ago today we got back from Mass on Christ the King and you asked me to watch you. You leaned your sticks against the garage and took off. My instincts from... Read More →


Why I now use an iPad as my Computer Why I now use an iPad as my Computer

Simplicity. One of the rules I strive to follow is to take something down as simple and minimal as possible, live with it for a bit, then choose to add in whatever makes sense and nothing more. I’ve... Read More →


Field Notes For Magnificent Mind Capture Field Notes For Magnificent Mind Capture

I’ve rediscovered paper. In particular, I’ve discovered Field Notes Brand pocket notebooks. They are thin, flat, and amazingly inviting to simply pour whatever comes to mind into, to be dealt... Read More →


Symptom
One Year Stick Free! One Year Stick Free!

Barbara, my wife, tells it this way: “One year ago today we got back from Mass on Christ the King and you asked me to watch you. You leaned your sticks against the garage and took off. My instincts from... Read More →


Hobbit Sighting (Sure, he's 6'-2", but those feet!) Hobbit Sighting (Sure, he’s 6′-2″, but those feet!)

I do everything I can barefoot. Why? Aside from the fact that it feel s free and fantastic, I have constant vertigo due to neurological damage in my brain stem (just to quell ally he loving suggestions... Read More →


Guy With Vertigo Rides Bike! Guy With Vertigo Rides Bike!

Looks like a toy bike, aye? Those are 26” wheels. I’m just THAT big. Of all the test bikes I’ve tried, a too-small for me (as yet too big for my daughters) cromoly frame made in the US is the best... Read More →


Deacon Patrick’s Round the World Progress

Deacon Patrick's Round the World Progress