As a part of Mental Wellness Month I wanted to share my favorite self-care ideas. “Self-care” is a hot topic these days, but I often find myself debating about what it really is. Sometimes I relate it to regulation so that I think of self-care as “doing things that keep me at my most regulated, …
I often get into a “groove” while working. While this means I’m able to complete my work faster than when I started, it also means I become less mindful about the purpose behind my work. I find it really helpful to take a step back a couple times each year and examine why I’m doing …
If you’ve seen any of my past posts you already know I LOVE Toca Boca World! In my “Toca Office” I set up a room for irregular past-tense verbs. I only have to prepare the room once (unless the game crashes, which happens only once or twice a year and only after I download a …
October is ADHD awareness month and while I talked about incorporating your patients’ interests in my other post, in this post I wanted to include a related self-care tip: “incorporate your interest.” Individuals with ADHD experience hyperfocus with their interests and “hypo-focus” with many things outside their interests. For this reason, incorporating interests can be …
In the fall of 2020, after 6 months of completing all 25 of my weekly appointments through telepractice/telehealth/video calls with my patients’ highest attendance rates recorded, I experienced my first ocular migraine. It was extremely unpleasant and I hoped it was just a fluke. When I had another a couple months later I immediately made …
“If you listen to your body whisper you won’t have to hear it scream.” Self-care is one of those terms that’s thrown around a lot with a variety of meanings. I can’t say if any meaning is really “wrong,” but to me self-care is less about self-indulgence and more about self-nurturing or even self-regulation. Just …
I love the part of Terminator 3 when Claire Danes is making as much noise as possible in the back of her vet rescue truck (where she’s been imprisoned by the newest Arnold Schwarzenegger robot from the future) as a robot-battery-turned-bomb explodes outside and Arnold yells at Claire, “RELAX!” as he looks intensely towards the …
I hate that so many children are waiting so long for speech and language treatment. I wish I didn’t have a waiting list, but the alternative is sacrificing the quality of the treatment my business provides. I got curious and did some research. It turns out that SLP waiting lists are an international problem. Children …
