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Exploring Healing Racism in Health Care
On the Healing Connections Podcast, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Sheela Ivlev, MS, OTR/L is interviewed by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L about “Exploring Healing Racism in Health Care.” Sheela shares terms commonly used in the topic of racism, provides education, and explores ways that racism can be healed in health care. Watch on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Read article “Racism in Healthcare and What We Can Do About It” by Sheela Ivlev, MS, OTR/L Sheela is an occupational therapist who specializes in wellness and mental health. She is committed to removing the barriers to…
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Coaching for Health and Wellness
On the Healing Connections Podcast, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Ana Hernando, OTR, MOT, MBA about “Coaching for Health and Wellness.” Ana shares what coaching is, how it can benefit a person in all areas of their life, what to look for in a coach, and why occupational therapists may have the most unique set of skills to provide coaching for the mind, body, and spirit. Ana is passionate about complementary and integrative health. She holds several certifications including Sensory Specialist, Level III Reiki provider, Self Talk Speaker and Trainer, Life Coach and Chair Yoga for Seniors provider. Ana focuses on empowering people to reclaim their health from the inside out.…
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The Intuitive Mind
On the Healing Connections Podcast Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. The Intuitive Mind We all have intuition. It’s something that can be developed so you can listen to it. Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD about “The Intuitive Mind” on the Healing Connections Podcast. Jeffrey is host and producer of the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube. He is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). Between 1986…
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Keep Calm & Call a Holistic OT – COVID-19
Yes I am open. In the midst of uncertainty with COVID-19 I am keeping my doors open and am offering telehealth––phone or live video appointments to help you destress and continue to assist you with your goals in your life, and online classes and consultation sessions for health care professionals. As you may know, the better you can manage your stress and the more enjoyment you can find the better your immune system can function, and the more likely you can prevent disease. Here’s an article I wrote for HolisticOT.org “Keep Calm and Call a Holistic OT” full of tips to stay well and happy. Social interactions are the life blood of…
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Acupressure and Your Health
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Acupressure and Your Health Marilyn Zurwaski, OTR/L and Carroll Noel-Mozer, OTR/L were interviewed by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L about “Acupressure and Your Health” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 19 on 2/17/20. Marilyn Zurwaski is the Co-President for Soul Lightening International. Marilyn is a Soul Lightening certified practitioner for Clinical Acupressure and Process Acupressure, and teaches several of their acupressure courses. Marilyn is an occupational therapist, and for the past 25 years she has been in private practice providing occupational therapy in Middleboro, MA. Carroll Noel-Mozer is an occupational therapist at Spaulding Rehabilitation…
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I Am Successful
How does it feel to say this to your self? “I am successful.” What thoughts come to mind, feelings or emotions? Does if feel strange or good to say that. Do you believe it? The desire for fame and fortune is likely about feeling love, safe and accepted. We are often conditioned in Western culture that success means primarily financial success, and then anything else we want to add in the mix as secondary and tertiary. Financial success is probably about feeling you have and are enough. How do you define success? What do you feel you have accomplished? What more do you want to accomplish? Can you be okay…
