#recovery

#recovery

When Dan Richards went for a New Year's Eve swim in 2023, he never could have imagined how drastically his life would change. In a freak accident, he injured his neck when a wave caused him to flip and hit the sand in Langland Bay, Swansea. "I knew instantly that I was paralysed," the 37-year-old said. "I couldn't move anything." Doctors told him he would be bed-bound but, two years later, he uses a wheelchair and can move his arms and fingers.

There has been significant progress and effort to streamline rebuilding and recovery in the impacted areas of Altadena and the Pacific Palisades,

'They told my wife she may never see me again,' said King, who underwent three brain surgeries and spent three weeks in a coma. '[They said] if I did in fact survive, I would probably be a vegetable for the rest of my life. But I'm a talking vegetable!'

"They told my wife she may never see me again," he said on the new episode of the BrooklynVegan Interview Podcast. "[They said] if I did in fact survive, I would probably be a vegetable for the rest of my life." And then he added with a laugh, "But I'm a talking vegetable!" Dave was told by doctors as he was leaving the hospital that he was a "miracle."

This can be hard for onlookers to understand, but for people who have lived through trauma, chronic emotional invalidation, or unsafe relationships, self-blame can become an organizing principle. It offers a painful kind of order. If suffering is my fault, then at least it makes sense. Over time, that belief does not stay confined to memory. It begins to shape behavior.

For most people, the word psychosis evokes images of permanent decline. A person with lived experience is imagined as someone whose future has been irreversibly damaged, whose mind can never be trusted again, and whose life will shrink to something small, unsteady, and disconnected. We are taught to believe that a psychotic episode destroys a person's capacity to think clearly, work meaningfully, contribute to society, love deeply, or live fully.

A 300-kilogram bronze church bell stolen in Bremen days ago has been recovered, the city's police said on Friday. A recycling center employee contacted the authorities to notify them he had purchased the stolen bell from two unknown men, before later learning about the stolen church bell and connecting the dots. The bell will return to the tower of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Bremen, which is mostly used now as a charity shop.

"She's good," he said on the Nov. 14 episode of TODAY. "She's just angry that she's not allowed to get back on the horse yet. She does have to take that time to recover."

This is a comeback story: a former "junkie, alcoholic" who lost control, now recovered and reborn, embracing the bliss and identity-making potential of music like never before. It's a classic hip-hop underdog narrative, and this is very much a rap album, just adorned with a Splice pack's worth of pixie-lated dust. Rave music is often associated with druggy abandon, but for Brown it seems more about the heady rush of joy conjured by whizzing tempos and neon synths.

Westmeath GAA player Luke ­Loughlin has told TDs and senators that he "could not believe" the response when he spoke about his struggles with alcohol and substance abuse four years ago.

They discuss the transformation of recovery techniques from the early days of simple practices like hydration and nutrition to the modern inundation of gadgets and supplements. Key highlights include the necessity of foundational recovery methods such as proper sleep, balanced nutrition, and social support. The hosts also stress that while advanced recovery tools have their place, they should complement, not replace, the basics.

"I was immediately rushed to the hospital, where I was placed on life support but, unfortunately, they weren't able to register any brain activity." It was "by some strange miracle," that he was saved by the "incredible" hospital staff, he went on to say. Since then, he has been recovering and has had to re-learn how to do basic things such as walk and eat.

They often opened their home to extended-stay guests. A friend would be going through a divorce and needed a place for a few weeks while looking for an apartment, or a meditation teacher would be in town from India, bringing us tiny clay buddhas and new dishes at the dinner table. One year, my parents hosted a violinist who was performing at the local symphony for about a month. I remember watching her play violin at the top of our entryway stairs.

On an unassuming morning in rural West Texas, a woman named Ann Walter was puzzled whena huge hunk of metal descendedfrom the sky and crash landed in her neighbor's wheat field. There were NASA logos on the parachutes that carried the truck-sized object, which itself bore NASA markings. "It's crazy, because when you're standing on the ground and see something in the air, you don't realize how big it is," Walter told the Associated Press. "It was probably a 30-foot parachute. It was huge."

My bold declaration had left my graduate school classmate, Nicole, with a look that was hard to read at first, but I concluded that she was about to alert the authorities, and they were coming to take me to the psychiatric hospital-a place that was unfortunately all too familiar to me. After 12 such hospitalizations, and a bipolar diagnosis, I was always on high alert. I had to be.

Raducanu retired during the second set of her match against Ann Li in Wuhan last week with dizziness in hot and humid temperatures, and later posted a picture on social media of herself at a doctor's office. She said she felt better and chose to play the Ningbo Open this week but was clearly not 100% and again lost her opening match.

Watching Andrew Flintoff command the stage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, a place that on every evening except this hosts the musical Hamilton, is at once soothing and startling. We are, after all, not even three years removed from his Top Gear crash and facial injuries so severe he could not leave his house for eight months. Jahrad Haq, who operated on him, ranked it among the five most complex cases he had seen in 20 years as a trauma surgeon.

I am a recovering alcoholic and need advice on how to support my son, who is 11 and autistic. I am three months sober with the help of rehab and AA, but my drinking became heavy over the last two years (I was sober for the first six years of my son's life). Towards the end, my drinking was 24/7 and my son has sadly seen me out of control and desperately unhappy. He developed a sense of responsibility, that he was the only person who could stop me drinking (by physically removing bottles), which I feel utterly ashamed about.

The last time I was in Las Vegas was over three years ago. My life back then is unrecognizable compared to now: I've lost a significant amount of weight, started therapy, and stopped drinking alcohol. I feel happier and healthier than ever, so when I made plans for a solo trip to Sin City recently, I knew it'd look way different than the last time.

Trauma is a devastating and all too common experience. It influences relationships, self-esteem, self-worth, physical health, mental health, and overall well-being, and chronic trauma can induce lifelong maladaptive patterns. What can make trauma even more devastating is when victims are retraumatized in some way, as it immediately launches them into their past, evoking feelings of powerlessness, grief, and pain. Retraumatization can feel as if the original traumatic experience is occurring all over again.

Imagine this scenario: Nicola is an athlete who wants to go to the Olympics in 2028. She couldn't be more motivated and is optimizing her whole life around it. In all aspects of training, sleep, diet, and mindset, she's aiming to make every marginal improvement she can. But already, three years out, she's beginning to unravel. When she doesn't set a personal best each race, underperforming her expectations results in crushing depression, anxiety, and second-guessing her every move.

The off-season is usually thought of as downtime for athletes who have been working hard all season, but for NBA All-Star Jaylen Brown, it is anything but idle. He sees the summer as a time to focus on intentional preparation as well as recovery, setting the tone for the taxing season ahead. Jaylen Brown understands the importance of seeing recovery as both mental and physical.

A disproportionate amount of your success comes from your effort in the last 5%. Let's use fitness examples and then bring it back to work and life. Picture doing a plank. If you're feeling type A, do one after reading this. When you get to the point where you are ready to drop, say to yourself, "Just five more seconds." Count out loud, and you can do it.

So, you've got a shiny new Garmin watch. Maybe it's the sleek Vivoactive 6, the run-focused Forerunner 970, or (my favorite) the ultimate all-arounder Fēnix 8. You're tracking your steps, sleep, floors climbed, calories burned-all the standard, self-explanatory stuff. But then you dig a little deeper into the menus, and it hits you: A tidal wave of data. Training Status? Acute Load? Body Battery? What the hell do these things mean?

When Chris Wilder had a massive stroke four years ago, doctors told his wife that he might not survive and if he did, he might not ever walk or talk again. The former Valley Health Foundation executive director, then 53, had been rushed from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains to Good Samaritan Hospital after Kate Wilder noticed her husband's face slump a sign of a stroke.

Sometimes I think of my sobriety in terms of a relationship. My sober self and I have been going along now for over 10 years. We are besties. We trust each other. We vibe. But recently, after a long bout of illness, I wondered how loyal sobriety would stay through sickness. Through turbulence. Through the valleys of life. Research says that divorces happen most commonly around the eighth year of marriage.

6:30 a.m. - I don't use an alarm to wake up I plan out my day the night before, so I'm not winging it when I wake up. It's pretty mapped out hour by hour. During the school year, I wake up, get my kids breakfast, get them ready, and take them to school. I'm home around 8 a.m. 8 to 10 a.m. - My workouts start early

The dust has settled on the opening weekend of the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 ­- and what a weekend it was. If you weren't one of the record number of viewers to tune in to any of the weekend's games, you might take a look at some results and think it was just a mash-up of one-sided affairs lacking genuine competition and jeopardy.