My name is Kim Holl. I am an independent filmmaker. I am raising funds to help complete Time to Heal, an independent documentary about my husband’s journey through traumatic brain injury, identity loss, and the unexpected pathways through which healing can emerge. The full completion target is $20,000, beginning with an initial $5,000 production milestone.

Our longer-term hope is to bring Time to Heal to brain-injury organizations, caregiver communities, healthcare professionals, conferences and audiences across Canada and beyond.

Watch the trailer for Time to Heal

Seven years ago, a workplace accident changed Ric’s life in an instant.

Before the injury, he was defined by motion and precision at scale: he climbed mountains, sailed around the world, flew planes, and rode as a cyclist — a life built on physical mastery, split-second judgment, and an intimate command of instruments and terrain.

Then, in an instant, a traumatic brain injury took it all. The film is told through two voices: his, and mine - as advocate , caregiver, and witness.

The injury left him living with constant pain, overwhelming sound sensitivity and an exhaustion that made even ordinary life difficult. Because a brain injury is often invisible, the depth of what he was experiencing was not always understood by others. The man who had once explored the world became largely confined to the quiet of home, struggling not only with his symptoms, but with the loss of the identity he had built over a lifetime.

As his wife, I watched the life we knew unravel. I became his caregiver and advocate, trying to protect what remained while learning that neither of us could return to who we had been before.

Then, quietly, something unexpected began to emerge.

Ric discovered horology—the intricate art and science of restoring antique watches. In the smallest, quietest and most exacting work imaginable, he found a place where his patience, intelligence and hands could come together again.

Over time, restoring 18th and 19th century pocket watches became more than a pursuit. It became a source of purpose, hope and healing. As Ric learned to bring damaged mechanisms back to life, he began, in his own way, to rebuild himself.

This is not a recovery story in the traditional sense. Time to Heal is told through both of us — the man living it and the woman who walked beside him — it is a story about what remains, what gets rebuilt, and what a life can become when it is measured by an entirely different clock.

This film is deeply important to me because our experience is not ours alone. Millions of people live with brain injuries that others cannot see. Alongside them are spouses, families and caregivers quietly navigating lives they never anticipated.

I want this film to help people affected by brain injury feel less alone. I also hope it will invite a deeper understanding of what it means to grieve a former life, adapt to profound change and discover that meaning can still emerge—even when recovery does not look the way we once imagined.

I have carried this film forward through my own time, labour and resources as its filmmaker, producer and editor. The funds raised will allow me to complete it with the professional care Ric’s story deserves.

Your contributions will help cover:

• Additional filming and production expenses

• Professional sound editing and final audio mixing

• Music composition and licensing

• Colour correction and final image finishing

• Closed captions and accessibility

• Festival submissions and community screenings

• Educational and outreach materials for brain-injury communities

The full cost of creating Time to Heal is considerably greater than this campaign goal. I am contributing my own time, equipment and substantial work as the film’s producer, filmmaker and editor. The $20,000 raised will help cover the essential outside costs required to complete the film professionally and bring it to audiences.

Every contribution, whatever the amount, will help bring *Time to Heal* closer to completion—and closer to the people who may see their own lives reflected within it.

If you are unable to contribute financially, sharing this campaign is also a meaningful way to help.

Broken doesn’t always mean beyond repair.

Sometimes healing begins when we stop measuring life by the clock we once knew—and begin listening for a different kind of time.

With gratitude,

Kim Holl

Filmmaker, wife, caregiver and witness