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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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Love Remains
Having recently lost a loved one, what is most important is that #LoveRemains🌷 Love Remains for Sally “After the first sprout, your days in the sunYour days in the rainOften lit by moonlight and your own magic when in the sky there was none,shining your love,shining your smile,your joy After you toiled, you made it look effortless,gradually transforming “the system”greeting people into your heart, they couldn’t resistinto your home After creating your family with all of the artists, poets, singers and filmmakers, all the way to great grandchildren,inspiring others to be their authentic self, you’d say “Be original.” After the words left your mouth and the presence grew stronger,your eyes grew…
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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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Whole Person 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. Whole Person Care Episode 14 – Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Kelly Clancy, OTR/L, CHT about “Whole Person Care.” She is an Occupational Therapist, Certified Hand Therapist, a board-certified Structural Integrator, Senior Instructor for the Bowen Academy of Australia, a Holistic Health Counselor, and a nationally board-certified Massage Therapist. She teaches nationally and internationally on the therapeutic approach that she developed called Tensegrity Medicine. Kelly has been practicing in the field of Occupational Therapy for over 32 years. She uses her skills as a manual therapist and ergonomist…
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Love, Art & Healing
I interview thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness on the Healing Connections Podcast. Art, Love & Healing I had the pleasure to interview Anne Labovitz about “Love, Art & Healing” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 11 on 2/7/19. Labovitz is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound. Labovitz has a degree in psychology and art from Hamline University in St. Paul and a Masters in Fine Art from Transart Institute via Berlin and New York. Her work considers many themes often returning to the central notion…
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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…
