Coping With Various Losses With Brain Injury

Community Meetings are open to: people living with Brain Injury, families, friends, professionals and anyone who wants to learn about ABI.
About this Event

Learn about a topic relevant to brain injury and socialize with others at our bi-monthly program – IN PERSON or ONLINE!

Program Recording & Privacy Notice:

Please Note - this Educational Session will be recorded, and may be shared publicly on BIAYR's Youtube Channel. Participants names, or anything participants choose to share verbally, or in the chat may be recorded. Please participate in the program in ways that feel comfortable for you in a public setting.

Coping With Various Losses With Brain Injury

Guest Speaker - Sarah Lo, MA - Registered Psychotherapist

Sarah Lo is a Registered Psychotherapist with extensive experience supporting survivors of traumatic and acquired brain injury. With a compassionate, trauma-informed, and client-centered approach, she helps individuals navigate the emotional, relational, and identity-related impacts of brain injury while fostering resilience, healing, and meaningful recovery.

Goals:

This presentation will explore the emotional and identity-related changes that can happen after brain injury, especially the losses that are not always visible to others.

1. Why brain injury can affect identity - changes in roles, routines, relationships.

2. How invisible losses can create real grief - grieving who you were before, the life you expected, or abilities and roles that have changed.

3. The emotional impact of feeling misunderstood - "looking" fine but not feeling fine, leading to loneliness, shame, and frustration.

4. Ways to reconnect with self and rebuild meaning - through reflection, values, and coping strategies.

This is a HYBRID Meeting.

(ONLINE): ZOOM

(IN-PERSON): BIST OFFICE

The Brain Injury Society of Toronto (BIST) enhances the lives of people living with the effects of brain injury.

Membership for Brain Injury Survivors costs $5 a year and can be waived if this fee is a barrier.

Join us at: www.bist.ca/JOIN OR call 416-830-1485.

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