How can I order my Kit?
Why would I need follow up coaching?
Where can I find out more about brain injury?
What does it mean to have a brain injury?

How can I order my Kit?
You can order your "Tools for Living" kit by email or telephone. Please Contact Us for more information.

Why would I need follow up coaching?
As well as providing support for the Tools for Living guide, there are many benefits for continuing with coaching, both short-term or long-term.

Coaching is a systematic method to help you reach your goals. In order to do so, you must remove obstacles and organize your daily life to make room for those activities that bring meaning to you. It is the coach's job to brainstorm for new solutions, and to assist you in formulating plans of action with specific steps and deadlines. The coach assists you in taking responsibility for your behaviours, supports you through the changes, and helps in reformulating the action plan, if changes are needed.

Overall, the coach is pro-active and interested in assisting you change your behaviour to fit what you want and how to get there. What you achieve is balance between family, work, and pleasure. You will also notice increased energy and enthusiasm as you become more confident in the changes you have made.

For further information about the benefits of coaching, check the "Benefits of Coaching" page on www.gmt-consultants.com or read some of the information on the International Coach Federation website (www.coachfederation.org).

Remember, your first coaching session is FREE with The TFL Kit.

Where can I find out more about brain injury?
There are many sources of information on brain injury, depending on the type of information wanted. Your family doctor should always be your primary source for immediate and urgent questions.

Canada: The Ontario Brain Injury Association: www.obia.on.ca

United States: The Brain Injury Association: www.BIAUSA.org

Google: www.google.com (search on the term "brain injury")

In your own city, look for a local brain injury society or caregiver association. In your city's Telephone Directory "Yellow Pages", look under "Health Services" and "Health and Welfare Organizations".

What does it mean to have a brain injury?
Brain Injury - Damage to the brain that results in impairments in one or more functions, including: arousal, attention, language, memory, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem-solving, sensory abilities, perceptual abilities, motor abilities, psychosocial behaviour, information processing and speech. The damage may be caused by external physical force, insufficient blood supply, toxic substances, malignancy, disease-producing organisms, congenital disorders, birth trauma or degenerative processes.

Brain Injury, Acquired - The implication of this term is that the individual experienced normal growth and development from conception to birth, until sustaining an insult to the brain at some later time which resulted in impairment of brain function.

Brain Injury, Closed - Occurs when the head accelerates and then rapidly decelerates or collides with another object (for example the windshield of a car) and brain tissue is damaged, not by the presence of a foreign object within the brain, but by violent smashing, stretching and twisting of brain tissue. Closed brain injuries typically cause diffuse tissue damage that results in disabilities which are generalized and highly variable.

Brain Injury, Mild - A patient with mild traumatic brain injury is a person who has had a traumatically-induced physiological disruption of brain function, as manifested by at least one of the following: 1) any period of loss of consciousness, 2) any loss of memory for events immediately before or after the accident, 3) any alteration in mental state at the time of the accident (e.g., feeling dazed, disoriented, or confused), 4) focal neurological deficit(s) which may or may not be transient; but where the severity of the injury does not exceed the following: a) loss of consciousness of approximately 30 minutes or less; b) after 30 minutes, an initial Glasgow Coma Scale of 13-15; c) Post Traumatic Amnesia not greater than 24 hours.

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