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Hosted by Erika Brouillette · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 54 episodes
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Real Lives of TBI Wives is a heartfelt and empowering podcast that gives voice to the untold stories of women who are navigating life as caregivers to husbands with traumatic brain injuries. Hosted by Erika, a wife, mother, and advocate, this podcast offers a candid look at the highs and lows of caregiving, self-care, and balancing the complexities of family life. Each episode features real-life experiences, tips, and encouragement for those walking this difficult path. Whether you’re a fellow TBI wife or someone looking to better understand this journey, Real Lives of TBI Wives is a safe space for support, connection, and healing. Join Erika and other TBI wives as they share their stories, struggles, and triumphs, offering a glimmer of hope for all who listen.
Erika Brouillette hosts The Real Lives of TBI Wives, a society show with 54 episodes published.
Ep. 54 | This episode has been in the making since the moment Erika hit record on this podcast. Jeff Faldalen has been her coach for the last year and a half. He is the person on the other end of the phone calls when the
Ep. 53 | Nine days before Christmas, Meg Payne got a call from the police while she was at work. Her husband Alan had been T-boned by a truck on his bike. She was 34 weeks pregnant. What followed was two months in the IC
Ep. 52 | You have done everything the doctors told you to do. You have been to the appointments, followed the protocols, managed the medications, and sat across from specialists who looked at your husband and said some v
Ep. 51 | Before his brain injury, Rob Baugh's life revolved around two things: playing piano at church and making elaborate cakes inspired by Cake Boss — a hobby that started as a dare from his wife Sheila and turned int
Fifty episodes. In this solo episode, Erika takes you back to where it all started — the woman who had never shared her story publicly, who hit record scared and unpolished because she knew someone needed to hear it. She
Ep. 49 | You have been performing strength in public while quietly disappearing in private. And if you are honest with yourself, the exhaustion you are carrying as a TBI wife goes deeper than the caregiving itself. It go
Ep. 48 | In this episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika sits down with Greg Hayward, a traumatic brain injury survivor who shares his honest and often humorous perspective on life after TBI. Greg spent 35 years in the
Ep. 47 | In this powerful episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika sits down with Carrie Pullaro, coach and creator of The Whole Woman Method, to talk about the hidden emotional weight women carry long before tragedy ev
Ep. 46 | Host Erika Brouillette shares her experience of facing a life-or-death decision, then becoming an overnight caretaker, provider, and single parent to three boys while managing specialists, therapies, insurance,
Ep. 45 | In this refreshing and much-needed episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika sits down with her friend and podcast mentor, Teri Holland, to talk about something so many caregivers desperately need but rarely all
Ep. 44 | In this powerful episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika sits down with Luke Bohnenberger, a traumatic brain injury survivor, speaker, coach, and bright light in the brain injury community, to talk about the a
Ep. 43 | In this deeply moving episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika Brouillette sits down with Tina to share the heartbreaking and hope-filled story of her husband Dave’s traumatic brain injury. What began as an ord
Ep. 42 | In this episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika Brouillette sits down with Jamie Arbor, Executive Director of The Supported Living Group in Connecticut, to talk about the realities of navigating longterm suppo
In this solo episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika dives into the surprising science behind what researchers are calling the “hope hormone.” While lifting weights may seem like just another task in an already overwhe
In this episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika Brouillette sits down with natural health practitioner Kate McDowell of Aligned Natural Health to explore a question many caregivers silently ask themselves: “Is it perim
Season 3 Episode 39: In this episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika sits down with Peg Clark who opens up about what it really looks like to love, grieve, and care for the same man, after a traumatic brain injury chan
Season 3 | Ep. 38 In this powerful episode of Real Lives of TBI Wives, Erika Brouillette sits down with Dr. Kay Reyna, a first responder wife/accountant turned researcher whose family’s life changed in an instant when he
In this final episode of the year, Erika Brouillette opens her heart and shares the truth of what the last twelve months have looked like—messy, stretching, humbling, beautiful, and nothing short of transformative. From
In Episode 36, Erika sits down with Sheila Baugh—a fiercely devoted wife and caregiver navigating life after her husband Rob’s traumatic brain injury in July 2020. From their sweet beginning on a blind date in the ’90s t
In this transformative episode of The Real Lives of TBI Wives, host Erika Brouillette sits down with Dr. Karen Kramer—clinical expert, hypnotherapist, neurolinguistic programming practitioner, and self-described “grief a
Dr. Karen Kramer
clinical expert, hypnotherapist, neurolinguistic programming practitioner, grief alchemist
1 appearance on this show
Chanda Hinton
Founder and Executive Director · The Chanda Center for Health
1 appearance on this show
William Person
former team USA Olympic bobsledder · P&8 Films
1 appearance on this show
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The Real Lives of TBI Wives is hosted by Erika Brouillette. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 54 episodes.
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