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Nolan McDonnell

Empower Yourself

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Category: psychology

Transferred to the Acute Rehab

From the minutes came out of the coma I immediately realized that I had to do something that previously I did not think was possible.  I had to believe in myself and my process I envisioned to make a full recovery. I could have the best surgeons, therapists, and team of doctors behind me, however, […]

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Do Not Be a Sheep

I was once in a critical thinking course, mandatory per my communication major and the professor had the students of the class to think  about a time when we were manipulated by others due to our lack of critical thinking skills.  My professor instructed the class to first read an article, in the paragraph below, […]

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Overcoming Anxiety

I told my mom, “I think I am going to drop my math class.” I had just finished my first quarter at college since my brain injury, and I had an anxiety attack about the next term that was starting only one week later.    I registered for critical thinking and math classes over this […]

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Law of Least Effort

  Before my injury, I used to run alongside a creek, located deep inside a gulch.  These runs changed my life because, one day, nature awakened me beyond the influence of any mortal soul I have ever encountered.  On this particular day, as I was running, I was observing the characteristics of water and it’s […]

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True Colors

“Friends show their true colors in times of need; and not in times of happiness.” -Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann   When my injury first I became surrounded by strangers, relatives, and came out of the woodworks offering unlimited support saying, “If there is anything I can do for you, please, let me know.”  Talk is […]

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Progess Is Impossible Without Change

When you think you know everything, your mind tends to close off, you are no longer open to new ideas, and you begin to boast about everything that you do know and do less examining about what you don’t. Additionally, when you think that you know everything, you tend to lack empathy for others, and […]

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Hellen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”  Instead of creating violent scenarios, in an effort to force everybody else into submission to selfishly have their own needs met, lighting cars on fire inside the Oakland  Mercedes dealership, Trump deporting illegal immigrants, protesters murdering innocent civilians, label […]

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Molehills to Mountains

“As the bullet went in one side of my brain and out the other, chances of recovery full function was minimal.  In life we have two choices, go uphill or go downhill.  We can take the easy way out and spiral down or we can work hard, charge uphill, and overcome barriers that attempt to […]

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Broken Glass

When you think you know everything, your mind tends to close off, you are no longer open to new ideas, and you begin to boast about everything that you do know and do less examining about what you don’t.  Additionally, when you think that you know everything you tend to lack empathy for others and […]

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Standing Firm on Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs

Ryuho Okawa said, “If we do not challenge ourselves again and again, we will never be able to accomplish anything.”  New challenges give you fresh ideas by bending the mind around problems, which expands your thinking, and forces the mind to think in new ways that it never has never done before.  Where the challenge […]

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