Welcome y'all, im Kyle Christiansen! I am a 2x TBI survivor and 1x spinal cord injury survivor T12 incomplete. I also, broke my back at T8, 10, 12 with incomplete tear at 12, broken pelvis, arm, ribs both sides, torn ACL, meniscus and hamstring. Along with those, severe road rash and collapsed lung!
I went through 4 back surgery's, 1 arm surgery, 1 knee surgery and 1 ibogaine treatment. Along with years of counseling! I will be honest again, God has been great to me; even with a life altering accident, he still looked out for me. Anyone ask me where the glory goes, it goes to God first and foremost, then to my parents, then to me and my hard work. However, also goes to some of the people that helped me out along the way.
Well y'all, back in 1991 my mom had some complications getting me here! I was finally born, August 28th 1991 to big Mike Christiansen and to LaRee Smith Christiansen. i grew up outdoors and loving to be outside, i roped my fist steer team roping at age 6. That was also y'all, the year on the way back from Florida vacation with my parents when I was learning to swim and swam in the ocean. onwards with the introduction
Kyle, enough already I know y'all are probably thinking. However, when I was six years old, I was asked to come up to the cockpit of an airliner at a layover in Raleigh-Durham North Carolina! from then, I was wanting to fly, fast-forward 8 years to age 14, I was leaving Las Vegas from a weekend stay with my parents out in Vegas I was leaving them to come home while they were out at a trade show. Anyways, I was flying United Airlines back. Y'all, I'm going to show my age here (seriously mid aged 34 not over the hill quite yet y'all), Ted Turner used to have a branch of United Airlines called Ted. I was boarding an Airbus 319 to come home; I walked up front and talked with the pilots. I came home and set my sights on flying. I was a private pilot prior to my accident.
Anyways, y'all here at Kyle Christiansen Recovery I offer faith-based podcast to help people getting through rough times, or to help people recover from their accident. whether they be Traumatic Brain Injury or
Spinal Cord Injury, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Alcoholism, OCD so on, but my two biggest strengths are telling people how i overcame things physically and mentally after my accident. My dad passed away September 17th, 2022; that was sudden and tragic come to find out he was battling cancer. he passed away from melanoma, lung and liver cancer. My grandma, on my mom's side died of lung cancer, my grandpa on my mom's side from Parkinsons, my grandpa on my dad's side from old age and COPD, my grandma on my dad's side to Lupous. Now y'all, it is me and my mom, no more family functions or anything of the sort. I quit drinking y'all, that should keep me around on earth a little longer y'all, thank the good Lord in good health.
Y'all, I'm also making getting to Heaven, a priority not a healthy alternative to Hell! seriously y'all, I remember so many times thinking after I die oh well, I'll go to purgatory then heaven but that beats the other place thank goodness probably won't end up in hell. Now, I'm looking at Heaven like wow, y'all how blessed am I to have eternal life with my loved ones that make it there, as well as friends that make it there along with animals. I am excited about faith, I look forward to praying now. I won't lie there were sometimes last year praying even I felt annoyed to have to pray. I did really y'all, not even going to deny that one or duck away from the heavy hit by God.
No, God, well what did he do? He showed me how great he is, Gods been working throughout my life, no over the last five months I've been excited about praying! Now, I get excited about praying and offering all praise to God, not like I was not praising him before, because I was. However, I'm a lot quicker to say I wouldn't have or amount to anything if not for God.
My life now is centered around Christ, as well as inspiration; no longer centered around team roping and flying or at times even after my accident drinking. No y'all even though no alcohol was part of my accident. I still battled alcoholism after my accident. I've made some really stupid choices on alcohol, as well as pissed a lot of my life down the drain with drinking times. I also don't want known as a drinker, I don't want seen as nothing but problems, which was exactly what I was when I drank.
God has looked out for me numerous times, he has made certain I was protected from many things! My accident quite honestly could've been so much worse, I could have been in a wheelchair and not able to walk. I was temporally paralyzed; I was not able to walk for some time there. I was pleased/blessed to be able to walk again. I'm grateful to the people that made certain i was going to walk again. Now, I can walk miles. In my accident, I learned how much love my mom and dad have/had for me.
Inspirational pictures, videos, and before and after where I was to now.
Hey y'all, I write books now have one book out now about my recovery from TBI and SCI. More to come y'all .
Reach out and book me for speeches, I will charge accordingly.
Hey y'all, this was back at inpatient rehab 2015. This was light board, this was hard because I was used to 20/10 eyesight. The TBI, quite honestly messed with my eyesight some. Not as much as did for a short time after my accident. I do wear eyeglasses now because somewhat near sighted.
This was what things looked like at inpatient rehab, as y'all can see looked blue. This was the beginning of worsening depression i was already depressed before my accident i was battling. This was after 2nd traumatic brain injury on my frontal lobe and temproal lobe.
Hey y'all, here a picture at a brain injury waiver place at State Capital building. This was standing next to the owner of last therapy company i worked with!
Well y'all, we are a mother son duo; my mom is a key piece of my motivation as well. She has been my number one supporter . my life has been made very nice due to my mom and dad at times!
Hey y'all I'm Kyle Christiansen; former private pilot, former team roper, former owner of hotshot delivery load company and former owner of a clearing business (those years i want to forget), I'm a recovering alcoholic, i struggle with ADHD, as well as battle two TBI's one on predominantly the frontal lobe, as well as temporal lobe. I went from not being able to walk, i was paralyzed for a while and not necessarily supposed to walk again. However, thanks to an amazing care team of therapist at KU Inpatient and a main physical therapist who saw more in me. She pushed until she got me walking out of there. I am forever grateful to her pushing me for more and seeing potential in me. I have over the past year, a little over a year now been doing this motivational stuff. I have done speeches, next speech I know of is coming up in August and it will pay. As of now, my books are what I'm making my money on.
We are a faithful mother and son duo, much thanks to my mom, im able to be doing what i am doing. She has been great, for years she had to take me to all therapies and sit around and wait on my appointments. As well she had to take me to all appointments.
I am also very grateful to many therapist and doctors along the way! As well, to many of our family friends, especially the ones that were there after my accident or time of my accident. As well after the loss of my dad. Glory to God, once again for blessing me with quality people.
I am blessed, extremely blessed to be here and now. Blessed beyond belief, God has been so good to me, he blessed me with the best partner for motivation stuff having my mom with me to go to events, as well as to go to my speeches and record stuff like my speeches and promote my book I wrote.
I have been speaking motivationally for a little over a year now. Now, starting in August I will start getting paid for giving speeches. I also, y'all I will have my second book out sometime next year. Now, my speeches along with my book will both pay!
Live each day to the fullest, savor every minute of being alive! Embrace positivity, Embrace positive change, thrive of new stuff, pick yourself up off the ground and dust yourself off cowboy and climb back on. Live life up to the fullest, embrace positivity and tune out negativity. The human mind, well y'all im all about battling the human mind and making my mind go in new snow prints across the ground. After my
TBI, especially 2 of them. I will say, its important to stay on newly laid snow, dont fall back into old grooves. This happens to be toxic, stay strong and don't sink into old ruts they've been traveled so much. After ibogaine, it laid new snow over the ruts and let me make new snow prints across the mind/mental pathways.
Feel free, y'all i mean this from the bottom of my heart reach out and connect! Either through my email, text me even, or call! Y'all can also, reach out on social media on my TikTok: Kyle motivates, Instagram: Christiansen3189, Facebook: Kyle Christiansen. I cannot log into my YouTube! God bless, also partake in my blogs!
Rodeo was competing at 2015 before my accident!
Team roping was at out in Hutchinson, Kansas May 2013. I also dropped lots of weight since then.
Prior to my accident flying as private pilot, here was flying my mom on her 50th birthday a couple month prior to my accident.
Hey y'all, here was out on the patio one morning at rehab institute now ability KC. I was smiling this weekend morning in the picture with my parents taking the picture!
Heres a picture from the Missouri brain injury association i went to and and spoke at! pictured next to me is James McGinnis a fellow traumatic brain injury survivor! God bless y'all and Glory to God!