Resurrecting Lives Foundation

Resurrecting Lives Foundation Our mission at RLF is to coordinate and advocate for the successful transition to a post-military career and life for Veterans with traumatic brain injury.

Visit: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/resurrecting-lives-foundation Over 2.2 million service personnel have been deployed to the war zone in Iraq and Afghanistan – many with multiple deployments. The hallmark injury is Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI. This condition is difficult to both diagnose and treat because the specialists are not frequently found in the Veterans Administration. It is es

timated that only 36% of the veterans returning from the Iraq & Afghanistan wars actually receive treatment through the Veterans Administration, although all are eligible. In addition, newer brain technology is revealing the pathology involved with the development of Post Traumatic Stress (PTS). These neurologic and mental health issues are complex to treat, and, in the civilian world, they are handled by rehabilitation teams consisting of physical medicine specialists, neurologists, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and social workers. Unfortunately, due to cost constraints and logistics, TBI teams are not found in the vast majority of VA centers and out patient clinics. Resurrecting Lives Foundation assists in the recovery and reintegration of our OIF/OEF Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) by defining the brain pathology and by developing the protocols for recovery. We advocate for our returning heroes and their families while educating the public about the co-morbidities associated with a traumatic brain injury. RLF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and all donations are tax-deductible. Please contact us and see how you can continue this important mission and support those suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

06/16/2026
Transition Drill Podcast with Guest Chrisanne Gordon, MDLink: https://youtu.be/51_Gk_bC4_0?si=Qy-_ZFhXF07aDOmo"Episode 2...
06/16/2026

Transition Drill Podcast with Guest Chrisanne Gordon, MD

Link: https://youtu.be/51_Gk_bC4_0?si=Qy-_ZFhXF07aDOmo

"Episode 252 of the Transition Drill Podcast, traumatic brain injury recovery, veteran transition, and rebuilding identity for veterans, first responders, and anyone navigating life after service, injury, or high-performance careers. You’ll hear Chrisanne Gordon on the hidden cost of brain injury, the fight to be believed, and what it takes to turn personal adversity into a mission that changes lives.

Dr. Chrisanne Gordon didn’t arrive in the veteran community through military service. She arrived through medicine, personal hardship, and a realization she couldn’t ignore. Chrisanne followed generations of family medicine into becoming a physician. She worked emergency medicine, then later moved into rehabilitation medicine, driven by a simple question she couldn’t let go of: what happens to patients after they leave the ER?

That question became personal after suffering a traumatic brain injury herself. As a physician suddenly becoming the patient, she experienced something she’d spent a career treating but had never fully understood. Cognitive changes, loss of speech, identity disruption, depression, and the realization that medicine didn’t yet have all the answers changed how she viewed recovery and the people living through it.

Then she read reports suggesting returning veterans with traumatic brain injuries were being dismissed, misunderstood, or categorized incorrectly. What started as concern turned into action. Chrisanne volunteered at the VA in Ohio expecting to help however she could. Instead, she found herself evaluating veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and witnessing firsthand how difficult recovery, diagnosis, and transition could become when invisible injuries met institutional systems.

Her work eventually challenged accepted practices and redirected her professional life entirely. From there came advocacy, research initiatives, congressional outreach, documentary filmmaking, and eventually the creation of a nonprofit focused on supporting veterans living with traumatic brain injury. Along the way she helped elevate awareness, pushed for recognition of TBI as a defining wound of modern conflict, and continued listening directly to veterans rather than speaking for them.

Today, Chrisanne’s mission extends through speaking, education, books including Guarding Our Guardians: Guaranteeing America's Veterans a Future from Deployment to Employment, and ongoing support for veterans and their families."

Episode 252 of the Transition Drill Podcast, traumatic brain injury...

06/11/2026

Homeland Magazine - Military Veterans In Transition, Resources, Support, PTSD, Mental Health, Transition, Careers, GI Bill, Veterans, Active Military, Military Families

Joe Pisano
06/08/2026

Joe Pisano

When the San Diego County Fair opens, retired Navy Chief Joe Pisano hopes his Lady Liberty sculpture will start conversations that could save veterans' lives.

06/08/2026

Provided to YouTube by CDBabyGuard Our Guardians · Timothy Baechl...

Guarding Our Guardians in the Homeland Magazine! Check out our article on page 24!
06/03/2026

Guarding Our Guardians in the Homeland Magazine!

Check out our article on page 24!

Homeland Magazine - Military Veterans In Transition, Resources, Support, PTSD, Mental Health, Transition, Careers, GI Bill, Veterans, Active Military, Military Families

Here is a MUST listen! This song is done by Tim Baechle, the singer/songwriter of Resurrecting Lives Foundation's Film a...
06/02/2026

Here is a MUST listen!

This song is done by Tim Baechle, the singer/songwriter of Resurrecting Lives Foundation's Film and Podcast theme song, BRAINSTORMS.

Click here to listen https://youtu.be/GgvIVkv3LcM?si=7rrzn1vF6bvx-EHh

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Our Guardians

Joe Pisano

Provided to YouTube by CDBabyGuard Our Guardians · Timothy Baechl...

05/29/2026

This month on Brainstorms, we sit down with National Guard veteran and Veterans Companion Animal Services President Josh Doran alongside his four-legged part...

Guarding Our Guardians: The Call to Action Gains Wings at the Book Launch It was fitting to officially launch our book o...
05/28/2026

Guarding Our Guardians:
The Call to Action Gains Wings at the Book Launch

It was fitting to officially launch our book on the steps of the Dick Laub NTC Command Center, Arts District Liberty Station - May 20, 2026.

On this date in history, 1927, Charles Lindbergh began his historic solo, nonstop flight to Paris. With that energy and the San Diego proclamation of
“GUARDING Our Guardians Day” we gave our mission... WINGS.

We were honored by the presence of Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient, USN Aviator Captain Royce Williams, as well as the Naval Training Center’s own Tom Crosby.
We wish to thank all those who attended our ceremony.

It was fitting to officially launch our book on the steps of the Dick Laub NTC Command Center, Arts District Liberty Station - May 20, 2026. 

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