Body Based Healing, Regulation, and Learning

Proprioception is one of the main senses that I focus on in Occupational Therapy or any of my work with kids. It is your sense of where you and your body par...

Grounding tools are activities or items which give some intense or distracting sensory input which brings a person back to the present moment, focusing on th...

"The experience of being human [of being conscious at all] is embedded in the sensory events of our every day lives". Begininng with the sensation of moveme...

I haven't written anything in a while, but I just wanted you to all know I'm still alive and active, I just haven't had the time! I've been posting regularly...

Interoception. One of those strange words an Occupational Therapist probably made up to explain another one of all the myriad of things we do. We seem to do ...

Every parent has probably been there- you overestimated your super mom abilities and decided to pick up some quick groceries on the way home, even though it w...

The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics,created by Bruce Perry, teaches that therapy needs to start at the place in brain development where a child is curr...

Does your child struggle with anxiety? With big emotions that make home routines a huge challenge? Does your child have extreme fears that make going out dif...

"What exactly is occupational therapy, aka OT? Is it like physical therapy? Is it helping people find jobs? Well, it could be. But it's way more than that.  ...

Here’s a list of grounding techniques to help calm yourself when anxious or stressed. Find one or two that work best for you. If focusing on your body is str...

Children’s brains organize from bottom to top, starting from their brainstem and moving to cortical, ‘higher thinking’ areas last. Some children have a hyper...

Heavy work activities- using the body against resistance- are regulating for most children. They can be used to either calm an over stimulated child, or to e...

Generally, activities that are purposeful or goal directed are more calming than random movement activities such as running around, jumping, or spinning. Pur...