Uplifting stories from survivors of TBI: "Don't let what we can't do, stop us from doing what we CAN do…best!" “WE SHARE WHAT WE KNOW, SO THAT WE ALL MAY GROW,”
Helping promote better understanding and awareness of what is often termed “The Silent Epidemic” (and/or “The Hidden Handicap”) “Inform, educate, inspire”
Shining a ray of light and hope in the darkest corners
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About the Author
Craig has a 'passion' for writing books that tell stories about people doing positive things in this often so hard, sometimes unkind world, occasionally cruel, yet always amazing world - true stories that leave the reader feeling uplifted, empowered and hopefully even inspired.
Craig Lock loves to encourage and empower people to be the best they can possibly be, and to create what they want in life. Craig has learnt plenty from the "school of life" (still "battered and bruised") and also from a few "hard knocks on the head". He is an extensive world traveller (on a "shoestring budget") and failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life’s savings on airfares. He is still sliding down the razor blade of life on the beautiful undiscovered island that is New Zealand, somewhere near the bottom (rude!) of the world near Antarctica. There he talks to the 60 million sheep! Craig has been involved in the corporate world (life assurance) for "many moons". However, through a rather strange (and unique) set of circumstances and finding himself in a small town near the bottom of the world ...and with nothing else to do, he started writing. That was five years ago. Five published books later and having written another twenty manuscripts (now 300 + on widely differing subjects - well what else is there to do here?)... this is where Craig is in the "journey/adventure" that is life. Craig has run a run a successful creative writing course (not teaching sheep!) at the local Polytechnic. He was the author of (as far as we know) the first creative writing course on the internet. He has many varied interests and passions and is particularly interested in the field of psychology – studying the human mind and what makes different people "tick-tock grandfather clock". He is fascinated by the "overlap between psychology and the dimension of spirituality".
One of his missions in life is helping people make the most of their hidden potential and so finding their niche in life... so that they are happy.
Craig’s various books probably tell more about his rather "eventful" life best (no one could believe it!). He writes books with serious messages and themes, then as a contrast "rather crazy, wacky stuff"…to keep him sane here. As an ‘anonymouse’ person wrote: "All of us are born mad; some of us remain so."
Well nothing else much happens in quiet provincial New Zealand, other than headlines like "Golf Ball Thrown at Policeman" and "Beach Toilet Closed for Season.". True!
from
http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html
For Craig’s books see AMAZON at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
... but rather GO to www.creativekiwis.com
All proceeds go to the needy and underprivileged… and a charity (most worthy-Bill and I)
“When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! “
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“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”
PPS
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
For me, even as bad as my experience was, because of the tbi it had made me make a different outlook on life. I may have cognitive problems sometimes but as a whole on a person I am much more aware and now there’s things I really want to learn about and am driven to do so.
To the silent thing, sometimes that feels like the most difficult part. Only my family and a couple childhood friends are still around me, despite my many faults I’m working and the distance we now live. Really it’s just work because I couldn’t keep a job now ppl I work with have no point of reference for me, even tho I explain my situation. I’m more looked at as a, wierd person that can’t act always acceptable. And it’s hard to understand them and vice versa. Plus no one I’ve told really knows anything much about a tbi. So it’s more like you’re a wierdo and kinda spacey and stuff.
I think that’s all I was gonna say. Either way, I like the post and hope to continue seeing stuff.
just keep writing and sharing, Martin
Cognitive effects of tbi may be subtle, but hugely significant in a work place. where can i read details of your storyand what happened to you?
So few people understand tbi and very very few people here know my story (only close family and old friends back in South Africa)
Couldn’t find a job here suitable for me so tried to create one
Thats WHY I write and share a lot
enjoy weekend
c
Hey Craig,
So far the only thing I have written is this posy https://lifexperson.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/accident/
I plan to hopefully complete my whole story. This blog is supposed to motivate me to do so and to “get out there”. Since the accident I have enjoyed trying to write and draw which I hadn’t even tried outside of school mostly.
My cognitive effects greatly reduce my effectiveness at work. I constantly make wierd mistakes and people always point out things they think are obvious and I have super hard time conveying my meanings to them of what I’m talking about when I explain something I know but just can’t word it in a way to make sense. Like how same with the listening to ppls idea.ioften get stuck on some unimportant aspect and lose focus or stop paying attention or there’s more than one thing they’re saying and I can’t always remember what they’re talking about to connect the dots. And often I forget what I’m talking about lol. But I think I got out what I was thinking of.
Hope that answers your question and stuff 🙂 and I hope to continue doing this stuff to for I dunno whatever lol
Like 6 or 7 days I guess. But I dunno if it was just because the other broken bones or just because the head trauma also the next month or two my family said I was like reverted to child and I didn’t really know who anyone was. But I ended up coming back and slowly. Or maybe it’s been quickly I don’t know obviously nothing to really reference it from. Just keep trying to get better and stay clean, since I got back into drugs, I was clean for a few years before but restarted after my accident but now I’m a little over a year clean and it’s been 5 years since my accident
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For me, even as bad as my experience was, because of the tbi it had made me make a different outlook on life. I may have cognitive problems sometimes but as a whole on a person I am much more aware and now there’s things I really want to learn about and am driven to do so.
To the silent thing, sometimes that feels like the most difficult part. Only my family and a couple childhood friends are still around me, despite my many faults I’m working and the distance we now live. Really it’s just work because I couldn’t keep a job now ppl I work with have no point of reference for me, even tho I explain my situation. I’m more looked at as a, wierd person that can’t act always acceptable. And it’s hard to understand them and vice versa. Plus no one I’ve told really knows anything much about a tbi. So it’s more like you’re a wierdo and kinda spacey and stuff.
I think that’s all I was gonna say. Either way, I like the post and hope to continue seeing stuff.
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just keep writing and sharing, Martin
Cognitive effects of tbi may be subtle, but hugely significant in a work place. where can i read details of your storyand what happened to you?
So few people understand tbi and very very few people here know my story (only close family and old friends back in South Africa)
Couldn’t find a job here suitable for me so tried to create one
Thats WHY I write and share a lot
enjoy weekend
c
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Hey Craig,
So far the only thing I have written is this posy https://lifexperson.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/accident/
I plan to hopefully complete my whole story. This blog is supposed to motivate me to do so and to “get out there”. Since the accident I have enjoyed trying to write and draw which I hadn’t even tried outside of school mostly.
My cognitive effects greatly reduce my effectiveness at work. I constantly make wierd mistakes and people always point out things they think are obvious and I have super hard time conveying my meanings to them of what I’m talking about when I explain something I know but just can’t word it in a way to make sense. Like how same with the listening to ppls idea.ioften get stuck on some unimportant aspect and lose focus or stop paying attention or there’s more than one thing they’re saying and I can’t always remember what they’re talking about to connect the dots. And often I forget what I’m talking about lol. But I think I got out what I was thinking of.
Hope that answers your question and stuff 🙂 and I hope to continue doing this stuff to for I dunno whatever lol
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how long were you unconscious for?
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Like 6 or 7 days I guess. But I dunno if it was just because the other broken bones or just because the head trauma also the next month or two my family said I was like reverted to child and I didn’t really know who anyone was. But I ended up coming back and slowly. Or maybe it’s been quickly I don’t know obviously nothing to really reference it from. Just keep trying to get better and stay clean, since I got back into drugs, I was clean for a few years before but restarted after my accident but now I’m a little over a year clean and it’s been 5 years since my accident
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