why i’m proud to be an OT

With each day that I learn more about occupational therapy, the more proud I am to be on the road to becoming an OT.
This pride really became apparent to me last Friday.  Our class had just finished listening to a 90 minute medical lecture, given by the heads of Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy at our [...]

Fieldwork

This week I finished my first round of Level I occupational therapy fieldwork in pediatrics.  In two weeks, I start my next round, this time, in a psychiatric inpatient setting.
Here’s a description.
The Psychiatric Inpatient Program provides intensive psychiatric care to voluntary adult patients with acute psychiatric disorders, such as major depression, bipolar illness or schizophrenia. [...]

To Save a Life.

Two summers ago, my husband and I got to take part in the experience of a lifetime – making a full-length feature film.  Now, I don’t want to make it sound like we had any sort of responsibility in the matter.  The screenplay was written by Brian’s boss, Jim Britts (who was a screenwriting major [...]

Allelous Video

As a follow up to my recent post about Allelous, the Intentional Community that Brian and I live in, here is a fantastic video about our community, made by our very own James Tedford.  Thanks for sharing your skills and passion, James!

It feels like camp. Except it’s all the time.

It’s seven o’clock.  The dinner cowbell has been rung, and people have slowly begun to emerge through their front doors from the comfort of their apartments.  Some drag their feet.  Some quicken their pace.  A few minutes later, 20 or 30 of us have gathered together downstairs in the Common House, ready to fill our [...]

invisible children’s new MEND program.

Invisible Children has done it again.  I love this idea.  And I hope you do too.  For more information on Invisible Children, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.

Tyler Genest: Life with Spina Bifida

I plan on writing about this topic a bit more extensively on my Occupational Therapy blog in the coming days, but I wanted to share this video with you that we were shown in our Medical Lectures class today. 
This is the story of Tyler Genest, a 20-year-old man who lives in Hawaii and was born with [...]

all the single babies.

Because I just can’t resist.
p.s., the best part starts at 38 seconds…kid’s got some moves!

Fieldwork

Today I officially broke ground as an occupational therapy fieldwork student.  I got placed in pediatrics, which made the transition from educational to clinical much less daunting seeing as I’ve spent the last two years teaching kids’ therapy classes at a pediatric clinic.  Been there, done that.
But something funny happened today.
With each kid I observed [...]

Back in the Game

After a full three and a half months of being without a job and, more importantly, being without small children to teach, I am finally back in the game.
This past Monday marked the beginning of my employment at a gymnastics center in Pasadena called Club Champion.  There I am teaching just four classes per week [...]