Be Aware of the Signs of Burn Out

By Janie Smith, Author and Founder HOPE BEYOND TRAUMA; OHIO Regional Leader, HIREPATRIOTS.COM Burn out can happen to anyone whether you are a highly successful parent, business man or woman, combat veteran, military spouse, caregiver, student. Let me put it this way, if you are living and breathing you are susceptible to burn out. Burn out is allowing your energy resources to be drained from you without replenishing its supply by taking care of yourself. It is necessary to honor your own being... Read More

IN THE RED CHAIR Documentary Featuring Brian C. Fleming

By Janie Smith, Founder of HOPE Beyond Trauma, OHIO Regional Leader of HIREPATRIOTS.COM   In The Red Chair is a must see short documentary movie featuring Brian C. Fleming. Brian was fresh out of high school and sacrificed several promising college opportunities to join the U.S. Army. He believed it was his duty to serve our country and knew he would be assigned to Afghanistan. A few months before his deployment he married his sweetheart. While deployed he was blown-up twice. The second... Read More

PEAK MINDSET RADIO SHOW with Jason Turner

By Janie Smith, Founder of HOPE BEYOND TRAUMA Recently, I had the privilege of being a guest on PEAK MINDSET RADIO SHOW hosted by Jason Turner. Besides being a radio host, Jason specializes in coaching business owners in marketing their business. I was happy to make contact with him since marketing is one of my greatest weaknesses.  Jason is a U.S. Air Force veteran, served in Iraq, huge San Francisco 49er fan and is a fellow team leader with HIREPATRIOTS.COM a FREE job board and non-profit... Read More

Failure IS the road to success!

By Janie Smith, Founder of HOPE Beyond Trauma Winston Churchill once said “Success is nothing more than going from one failure to the next!” What a thought! When put into that context… then why have I been SO afraid of failure? In our culture, success is emphasized more than failure. To fail is not something we cheer about. It is depressing and sometimes downright humiliating. We set our sails to succeed with great enthusiasm, and then when we fail, we tear ourselves apart and sit in... Read More

Where to now?

By Tanya Smith, TBI Survivor After my injury my mind was going in so many directions.  ‘What is my life going to be like now,’ I’d ask myself?  There were so many things that were “wrong” with me; where was I to start?  I didn’t want to listen to the doctors or psychiatrists because they weren’t telling me what I wanted to hear.  For me, in some ways that was good.  They were being so negative that if I did listen to them, I wouldn’t be as... Read More

TBI: the very basics Part 9

By John Hatten, TBI Coach & Counselor, Survivor of TBI Cognitive tools: the next few issues are going to be about tools we can use to help our ability to focus. You will hopefully find that having tools to help your attention and focus will pay off in the long run. These tools work in different ways: PEAT stands for “Planning and Execution Assistant and Trainer. This is a program that works on an Android phone. PEAT is the only planner that actually plans. You set up the time frames for... Read More

Are You Dwelling Too much on the “Shoulds” in Life?

By Janie Smith, Founder of HOPE Beyond Trauma “I have learned not to dwell too long on the “shoulds,” since they only rob me of my energy and fuel my bitterness. They also take away whatever good there is in today.” –Janie Smith Are you dwelling too much on the “shoulds” in life? For example,  “I should have done _________” If I would have done _______, that would not have happened. If this tragedy had not occurred, I could have become __________.  If I had made better... Read More

TBI: the very basics Part 8

By John Hatten, TBI Coach & Counselor, Survivor of TBI Impulse control is one of the topics that gets families the most upset: often they’re OK with the concentration and communication problems, but the impulsiveness wears them down. We survivors will find our lives, in the long run, much easier and more fulfilling when we work (hard and diligently) into improving our social skills. We will find, as I did, that “going off” just doesn’t work: it hurts as we do it and it hurts even... Read More

HOPE Beyond Trauma joins hands with HirePatriots.com

By Janie Smith, Founder of HOPE Beyond Trauma HOPE BEYOND TRAUMA is thrilled to be joining hands with HIREPATRIOTS.COM. I have the great honor of bringing this outstanding non-profit organization to OHIO. Their mission is especially close to my heart since my son recently returned from Afghanistan completing his sixth tour in this war on terror. My husband served 22 years with the US Army.  As a proud military spouse and mother I know firsthand the difficulties families face when their... Read More

Life is to be lived!

By Tanya Smith, TBI Survivor Fellow survivors: Life is to be lived!  We survived a horrific injury.  Some depression should be felt for what we lost; but don’t let that depression consume you for years, as it did with me.  Be grateful for ALL that’s been left to you because you don’t have to look too far to witness those who are less fortunate.  Please, please don’t let your disability define you as an individual whose soul existence is spent confined in a... Read More
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