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Aging Well
On the Healing Connections Podcast Episode 15, I interviewed Mandy Chamberlain, MOTR/L about “Aging Well.” Watch or Listen to Full Interview Here Mandy is an occupational therapist with a passion for working with the older adult population and the founder of SeniorsFlourish.com and the membership site, The Learning Lab. Both are dedicated to helping other geriatric OT’s be the best they can be through education, resources, tips and videos. Her varied clinical background includes working with geriatrics through long term care, home health services, home modification consultation, assisted living, inpatient critical access and outpatient therapy services. The book mentioned about preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s is: “The End of Alzheimer’s: The…
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Health Care, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, Intuition, podcast, Prevention, Self Care, Spirituality, The Science of Happiness, Wellness, Yoga
Healing Connections
How has your autumn been? It’s turning to winter here in Minnesota. It’s been a few months since I’ve written on my own blog. I have been writing my intuition and healing book, managing the Holistic OT Community, teaching holistic health classes, supporting clients, and interviewing fascinating and intelligent people on the Healing Connections Podcast. On the Healing Connections Podcast I interview thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Here are some of the people I have had the good fortune to speak with to bring you great content you might not find anywhere else. Each episode is 30-60 minutes. They’re on my YouTube…
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Intuition: The Heart of the Matter
I have been writing my intuitive development book this summer. I am half way through creating it and am loving it. Finally, I am able to focus on these warm summer days to listen to my intuition and allow what wants to come forward to be written. This book has been being created for a while now, but I have a determined goal to complete it soon. Our world needs it. “The longest journey you will ever take is the 8 inches from your head to your heart.” – Andrew Bennett Culturally we are in the process of transforming from being primarily materialistically oriented to being more loving, kind, and…
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Learning and Teaching – What Life is All About
This is me teaching at the Holistic OT Yoga and Meditation Retreat. I love teaching! I love learning! Isn’t that what life is all about? It has been quite a journey learning how to be on the other side of health care or sick care so I could help people to stay well, prevent disease, and listen to their intuition. Even though it was scary when I first embarked on this path, and I didn’t exactly know where I was going, I learned to listen more fully to my intuition and what was calling me. Had I continued to stay in those types of working environments I would have continued to…
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Spreading Light – Spring 2018
It has been a full beginning of the year providing complementary and integrative health care, teaching classes to health care professionals, recording classes, guest lecturing, and writing books. Here’s the summary: Recorded Classes: I took my three-hour classes and recorded them, making them available as a download anytime. Please check them out at the links below or share with those who you think might be interested. Aromatherapy Intro Meditation for Health Care Professionals Holistic Practice Class Guest Lecture: In March, I guest lectured to Masters in Occupational Therapy students at Ithaca College in New York about how they can use complementary and integrative health in OT practice. They were full…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, Intention, Love, Meditation, Prevention, The Science of Happiness
How an Attitude of Gratitude Can Improve Your Life
By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L What are Your Grateful For? Taking a few moments each day or weekly to have an attitude of gratitude may improve your life. Research supports findings that there is an association with gratitude and an overall sense of well being. “Gratitude is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself and represents a general state of thankfulness and/or appreciation.” ~ Sansone & Sansone, 2010 Focus on What’s Right It may seem more easy to focus on what you feel may be going “wrong” in your life or what you want to improve, instead of focusing on what is going well. It can be helpful to…
