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A More Nuanced “What’s Wrong”

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on A More Nuanced “What’s Wrong”

One skill that has been really helping me in these past few weeks has been the skill of being able to describe to myself in my head, in detail, what feels bodily wrong when things […]

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The Sensory Weight of Disability

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on The Sensory Weight of Disability

The sensory weight of disability. It’s the way it feels like I had barely learned how to take care of myself without self invalidation. It’s the way that all of my feel-good strategies involve making […]

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Doing It Live

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Doing It Live

A weird component of running a page like this while my kids are 5 and 6, not grown, is that I’m still in the middle of this. It’s not theoretical and it’s not like I’m […]

Elementary

When Speaking is Hard

October 30, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on When Speaking is Hard

There have been quite a lot of times in my adult life when I’ve needed to talk to my husband about something but been unable to speak about it. Some of those times, the words […]

Personal

Spring Conference Rules

May 7, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Spring Conference Rules

My conference this week was absolutely amazing. I have a million thoughts rattling in my head and they need some time to condense into ways to explain myself, to share with you about what I […]

Personal

self-reg is yelling at sheep on a fen road

May 7, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on self-reg is yelling at sheep on a fen road

I’ve written before on here about my own strategy of enjoying yelling along to music, as a means of preemptively self-regulating. Because when I’m stressed out, I have a tendency to want to yell (at […]

Spanish/Español

Querido Autismo (Español)

April 12, 2024 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Querido Autismo (Español)

This is a Spanish language translation of this post, which is in English. Post traducido del original en Ingles. “Querido Autismo, Eres la razón por la que mi pequeñito se apasiona intensamente por temas específicos […]

Personal

Marshmallows

December 16, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Marshmallows

When I was a kid, I really loved marshmallow cereal (like Lucky Charms or Marshmallow Mateys, the knockoff brand that we actually usually ate). I really wanted to pick out all the oatmeal pieces and […]

At Home

Writing Because of Music

October 20, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Writing Because of Music

My son (6) wanted to listen to music. He loved the music, the way it felt in his body, so he danced. He loved the music, the way it sang in his mind, so he […]

At Home

Talking About Self-Advocacy

October 9, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off on Talking About Self-Advocacy

Sometimes when I tell parents that it’s okay to wear earplugs in order to cope with their own sensory sensitivity/avoidance, they worry that they’re going to hurt their children or implicitly be telling their children […]

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