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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…
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New American OT Association Class on Complementary and Integrative Health
I am so grateful to have just completed creating the new course for the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), “OT with Complementary Health Approaches and Integrative Health.” If you are an occupational therapist interested in Integrative Medicine you will enjoy this course! It took me six months, in between teaching and client sessions, to create this webinar that will be available on their website as a downloadable class for the next five years. I had a wonderful experience working closely with their education director. I hope you enjoy it! Go Here to take the class. OT with Complementary Health Approaches and Integrative Health Presenter: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, BCTMB, ARCB Earn .15…
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Emmy’s Musings and Spring Update 2017
It’s been a little while since my last blog post. It has been a full beginning to the new year in 2017! I am fortunate to have been asked to create an online course for the American Occupational Therapy Association on “Occupational Therapy with Complementary Health Approaches and Integrative Health.” This came about after petitioning them with the Holistic OT Community requesting that they offer more continuing education courses on these topics. I spent most of the end of December and all of January, in between client sessions, creating this course. Integrative Medicine is being utilized by more people in recent years. For example, there are twice as many people in…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, Meditations for You!, podcast, Relaxation & Meditation
New “Healing Connections” Podcast – Listen Now!
Healing Connections Podcast – First Episode I just recorded the first episode of the “Healing Connections” podcast this November. You can listen now. Click the play button here. In this episode we discuss how most of us are affected by negative stress with tips and suggestions on how to manage stress, induce the relaxation response to help prevent disease, and in certain cases possibly even recover from illness or disease. I was joined by Carisa Hillman who is an occupational therapy student who has been completing her Fieldwork with me this fall through December. “Healing Connections” was initially created with hopes of it becoming a radio show. It lay dormant…
