#5ThoughtsFriday
Edition
03/29/2019
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"Making Your Best Move"
The 2019
Brain Injury Association of Maryland Annual Conference
Today is our final day of the Conference!
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We're Having Lots of Fun!
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Congratulations to this year's Recipients of the
Alicia Cignatta
Spirit of Independence Awards:
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INDIVIDUAL:
Kevin Pile
CAREGIVER:
Tom Gallup
ADVOCATE:
Nancy Mickelsen
PROFESSIONAL:
Laura Morgan
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Congratulations also to the Recipients of
the Brain Injury Association of Maryland's
Frances Bateson Dexter Award
and its
Organizational Leadership Award.
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FRANCES BATESON DEXTER AWARD:
Laurie Elinoff
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD:
HobbleJog Foundation
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Here are the 5 things we thought were
worth sharing with you this week:
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I had just finished filming Season 1 of “Game of Thrones.” Then I was struck with the first of two aneurysms.
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Just when all my childhood dreams seemed to have come true, I nearly lost my mind and then my life. I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.
It was the beginning of 2011. I had just finished filming the first season of “Game of Thrones,” a new HBO series based on George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. With almost no professional experience behind me, I’d been given the role of Daenerys Targaryen, also known as Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Lady of Dragonstone, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons. As a young princess, Daenerys is sold in marriage to a musclebound Dothraki warlord named Khal Drogo. It’s a long story—eight seasons long—but suffice to say that she grows in stature and in strength. She becomes a figure of power and self-possession. Before long, young girls would dress in platinum wigs and flowing robes to be Daenerys Targaryen for Halloween.
The show’s creators, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, have said that my character is a blend of Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Lawrence of Arabia. And yet, in the weeks after we finished shooting the first season, despite all the looming excitement of a publicity campaign and the series première, I hardly felt like a conquering spirit. I was terrified. Terrified of the attention, terrified of a business I barely understood, terrified of trying to make good on the faith that the creators of “Thrones” had put in me. I felt, in every way, exposed. In the very first episode, I appeared naked, and, from that first press junket onward, I always got the same question: some variation of “You play such a strong woman, and yet you take off your clothes. Why?” In my head, I’d respond, “How many men do I need to kill to prove myself?”
To relieve the stress, I worked out with a trainer. I was a television actor now, after all, and that is what television actors do. We work out. On the morning of February 11, 2011, I was getting dressed in the locker room of a gym in Crouch End, North London, when I started to feel a bad headache coming on. I was so fatigued that I could barely put on my sneakers. When I started my workout, I had to force myself through the first few exercises.
Then my trainer had me get into the plank position, and I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t. I told my trainer I had to take a break. Somehow, almost crawling, I made it to the locker room. I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.
CLICK HERE
to see more on this all new revelation
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Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind.
Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable insights. In this introspective, personal talk, he challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality.
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Frequent use of high-strength cannabis may increase the risk of mental health problems, according to a large-scale epidemiological study.
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The strength of marijuana could be an important consideration when evaluating the health risks of using cannabis, according to a study of more than 2,000 patients and controls published yesterday (March 19) in The Lancet Psychiatry.
At 10 locations in Europe and another in Brazil, researchers found that variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder correlated with differences in the frequency of cannabis use and, in particular, the use of high-potency cannabis, which can carry levels of psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) greater than 10 percent.
“Daily use of high-potency cannabis and how this varies across Europe explains some of the striking variations we have measured in the incidence of psychotic disorder,” coauthor Marta Di Forti of King’s College London tells The Guardian.
After controlling for education, drinking habits, and other factors, the researchers found that there was a 40 percent greater chance of developing a psychotic disorder among people who had used the drug more than once a week, as compared with those who had rarely or never tried cannabis. The risk was three times greater among daily users, as compared with rare or nonusers, and higher still among daily users of high-potency cannabis.
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6th Annual
Strike It Big For
Brain Injury
Where:
1723 Reisterstown Road,
Pikesville, MD
When:
April 27, 2019
1pm — 3pm
Cost:
$100 per team (Up to 5 Players) or
$25 per individual
Includes: 2 hours of bowling, shoes, and pizza party!
Choice of Duck Pin and 10-pin games
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2) What We Are Reading That You Might Enjoy
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In Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky explains the powerful insight that inspired him to achieve his most ambitious dreams despite losing his sight to a blinding disease: it isn’t external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.
Eyes Wide Open is not about sight or blindness, it is about vision. Our perspectives are limited by our past experiences, biases, and emotions. Lidsky shows us how to confront paralyzing fears, challenge our own assumptions and faulty leaps of logic, silence our inner critic, harness our strength, and live with open hearts and minds. In sharing his hard-won insights, Lidsky shows us how we too can confront life’s trials with initiative, humor, and grace—and an empowering, new vision.
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5)
Quote We Are Contemplating...
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
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Have you ever clicked on the beautiful pictures posted at the end of every #5ThoughtsFridays? Try it. You might learn something fun!
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Stay Safe. Stay Warm.
HAVE A TERRIFIC WEEKEND.
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