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Take charge of your cognitive and communication functioning:
Understand your brain from a new perspective.
Learn an impactful skillset that works for your unique brain.
Brains are incredible organs - undoubtedly the most complex organ in the human body. It can also feel incredibly complex to know how to effectively change your own brain communication or cognitive function - whether it is the way your brain controls speech movements, retrieves words to match our ideas, processes information, or coordinates its activity to reach goals.
Learn how to work with your own brain to take control of your mind, body, and life
Examples of actual client goals and results:
Speech
Be understood over the telephone
Direct own care needs and wants
Reduce being asked to repeat
Pronounce the type of wildlife you see while driving or touring through an area so the other person understands
Say your grandchildren's names again
Share my extensive knowledge of Yellowstone trails at a volume where people can hear and understand me
Speak clearly again to train 75+ person new staff over videoconferencing and phone calls
Spoken Language
Tell my spouse where I'm going today
Arrange a river shuttle - find the words needed to tell them where the keys are and where you're going
Tell an interesting story to other people
Share experiences from world travel
Order at a restaurant or a drive-through without someone else doing it for you
Tell my granddaughter how to make a family recipe
Follow a conversation I am listening to; track what other people are saying
Understand directions a doctor or pharmacist says to me
Executive Functioning
Plan and execute a baby shower
Teach a 60 min yoga class again
Manage my own schedule and keep track of deadlines
Process what is in a college textbook and understand material deeply for success during an exam
Start and finish "adulting" tasks
Organize all of the information in my mind that my client/customer just told me so that I can develop a plan for them
Know what time it would be 30 minutes before I have to leave and what I need to do during that time
Memory
Remember what I want to tell the doctor and what questions I wanted to ask; remember the instructions and information the doctor told me
Make sense of the notes I took while on the job, when I go back to write a report
Remember what I studied for an exam
Remember where my spouse went
Remember what I need to bring when I leave the house
Remember what I intended to do when I went upstairs
Written Language
Find and spell words to send text messages
Write a thank you card to people who supported me while I was in the hospital
Understand cards that others sent me while recovering
Comment on someone's post on social media
Respond to people's questions on the listing of my vacation rental
Read and understand a menu or a set of choices for something and point to what I want
Attention
Switch my attention back and forth between cooking dinner and helping my kids with homework without burning anything
Focus on my work in a distracting environment
Finish a visual work task without having to correct mutliple mistakes due to mind wandering
Read a book section without having to go back and re-read it multiple times to process what I read
Reduce the extent to which intrusive thoughts take me off task and cause stress
Are you ready to explore what is possible for your brain's communication and cognitive functions?
Schedule a free consultation with me - I would love to hear from you!