Insights

My son and I love the movie Ron’s Gone Wrong. We have watched it over and over because the many oopsie-daisies of a slightly less-than-perfect robot are quite amusing. For instance, Ron tends to learn about his world by determining how much effort it takes to destroy items via burning, melting, or dismembering them. While comical, I am pretty sure I would not want this robot in charge of any areas of my life!  I certainly would not let him take control of any aspects of my business, lest I find my laptop in flames in the fire pit.

While this movie is full of absurdities, it has a pretty strong take-home message: our world still desperately needs the human element despite the many advancements of technology. This theme rings true for those of us in the world of content

I was on a much-needed girls’ getaway when I got the text. This kind of text does not come often when you are an outpatient pediatric occupational therapist. This is the kind of text that makes the world go silent and stops you dead in your tracks. My patient whom I had been seeing multiple times per week for over a year and a half had passed away during the night.

I had seen her two weeks before. She had had one of her best therapy sessions yet and was progressing so well that I was going to have to update her therapy goals. When our session was over, I walked her and her mom to the waiting room like I always do and told them I would see them next week. I did not realize that was the last time I would see my sweet girl.

When I got the text that she had passed, it was ea

When I am not writing or practicing occupational therapy, I am also the director of a therapeutic dance program for special needs children. I’ve always loved dance, and it was such a thrill when I discovered I was able to utilize my passion for dance in conjunction with occupational therapy.

This dance program serves a variety of needs, ranging from physical disabilities to sensory challenges to speech difficulties. The main goal is to allow children to engage in age-appropriate leisure activities with therapeutic strategies in place to ensure a successful experience. This week I was forced to re-evaluate what success looks like in an adapted dance program

Since the spring season started in January, there has been a new dancer who has joined that has struggled more than

As I was working on a blog post recently, I noticed a few things about myself as a writer. I have some quirky habits, or dare I say rituals, that I go through every time I sit down to write. I hadn’t really paid attention before, but when I realized these rituals existed, I wondered what other writers do and why. Is it because these things help us focus, feel more comfortable, or are they simply habits?

The first thing I do before getting down to any part of a writing project is turn on some relaxing piano or acoustic guitar music on my Bluetooth speaker. I intentionally avoid music with words because it distracts me when I’m reading. The instrumental music, however, really helps me to get into a working mindset.

I’ve done similar things as an occupational therapist

What does it mean to have a mission? Does every career have a mission or does one simply go to work, get a paycheck, and go on with life?

I am a pediatric occupational therapist (OT), and I have been in the therapy game since 2011 (2010 really if I count my fieldwork months). I love OT. It’s an amazing profession. Helping people to either gain or rehabilitate skills to live their lives to the fullest is a beautiful mission. I have always loved the moments where I get to watch a child feel proud because he or she accomplished something meaningful, whether it was getting dressed without help, tying shoes, writing his or her name, or even just finally being able to wear that school uniform that used to feel so uncomfortable.

However, in my experience as an OT in pediatrics,

When I decided to make my transition from being a practicing occupational therapist (OT) to a freelance health writer, I knew I would need to answer why an occupational therapist would make a good content writer. As an occupational therapist, I am not unused to explaining what I do, so I started thinking about how to explain the attributes of an occupational therapist that transfer so well to health content writing.